Instagram will finally let you chat from your web browser, but the launch contradicts Facebook’s plan for end-to-end encryption in all its messaging apps. Today Instagram began testing Direct Messages ...

Messages for web is undergoing an important backend change, particularly for users on Google Fi. Instead of relying on older ...

WhatsApp Web is getting 1-hour and 12-hour disappearing message timers. Users can share sensitive or time-sensitive ...

Like so many other Android users, I rely on Messages for Android — Google's text messaging application — every day. It's my main means of communication with the people I care about most. So I was ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ --The first industry best practices to help Web messaging and social networking operators protect users of their Web mail, direct messaging and SMS services from ...

Messages, Google’s more recent focus for its scattered messaging efforts following its decision to “pause” work on Allo, is now available for web users. The company announced that it would begin ...

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Background: Patients want electronic access to providers. Providers fear being overwhelmed by unreimbursed messages. Objective: Measure the effects of patient-physician web messaging on primary care ...