Closing loopholes and allowing blocking could help stop annoying calls and texts.

"I didn't get your text" has a real "The dog ate my homework”-feel to it.

Government tracking of Verizon telephone records raises the question of just how valuable phone information really is. Would it be more useful to track text message records?

Chat apps — like WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage — are now more popular than SMS, a service that has been around for decades.

Unauthorized charges for things like dating advice and horoscopes are making their way to more cell phone bills. And now the FTC is cracking down.

When you send a text message or an email, should your Internet or phone company hang onto them in case the police ever want to take a look?

Janell Burley Hofmann, one of our resident tech etiquette gurus, is a Cape Cod Mother of five with strong opinions about how to behave with technology. Today's topic: Group text messages.

Celebrating the text message as the technology turns twenty, and waiting on results from a UN summit on controlling the Internet.