Before you say, "So What?" we are well aware that you could send an SMS from email by using an address of the form number@att.txt.net (we're also aware AIM supported this). But when you did that, you ...

Gmail's chat-to-SMS feature is getting pulled back by a couple weeks for the Gmail team to fix a showstopper bug that kept it from working properly. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers ...

After a hiatus of more than a month, Google has reintroduced a feature to send instant messages to phones via SMS. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Google will reportedly add SMS sending capabilities to Gmail Chat today which will now let desktop Gmail users swap instant messages with mobile phone users via SMS protocol. Previously Gmail users ...

Oh, well. It sounded so good, and it would have been, too: Gmail adding, through its Labs, the ability to send SMS messages through Gmail Chat and at the same time associate a permanent phone number ...