As I've mentioned before, Google SMS is a fabulous tool for fetching information from your cell phone. Just shoot a text message to 466453 (GOOGLE) and you can get all kinds of helpful stuff in ...

Google SMS has lots of features that GOOG-411 lacks, like flight arrival details, and language translations. You can even set your ZIP code so that the big G knows where you're searching from.

Google is officially moving away from using SMS messages in its Gmail account two-factor authenticator. Gmail spokesperson Ross Richendrfer told Forbes, “we want to move away from sending SMS ...

While Google has closed more than 70 services since announcing they were doing some spring cleaning in 2011, there was no advanced warning that Google SMS Search was going to be discontinued.

A couple of years ago, we covered a report by the NY Times on the ongoing issues with review scams and blackmail. Well, the ...

Google plans to replace SMS codes with QR codes for account verification. If you're logging into Gmail, one current authentication option is a six-digit code sent via SMS.

Google will soon phase out SMS-based two-factor authentication in favor of QR codes. The company will use various techniques, including attempting to verify the user’s number directly with their ...

Google now hopes to move beyond SMS, which has become so frequently abused that it negates any supposed security benefit. Instead of using SMS, the company will reportedly switch to using QR codes.

Google is about to overhaul the login procedure for nearly 2 billion Gmail users as part of a major security update to its email service.. The current method of sending an SMS text message to ...

Google is officially moving away from using SMS messages in its Gmail account two-factor authenticator. Gmail spokesperson Ross Richendrfer told Forbes, “we want to move away from sending SMS ...

Google is not the only company to move away from SMS for 2FA. Last year, Evernote removed SMS from its service , and the secure messaging app Signal removed it in 2022 . X, Apple and Microsoft ...