Offering usernames will allow people to stop giving out their phone number —a sensitive piece of information— in order to connect with others on the messaging app. Encrypted messaging service Signal ...

Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled offline after a security bug allowed any logged ...

After years of hiding behind FaceTime, phone calls on the Mac are getting their own spotlight. Here's all you need to know ...

In the world of Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms, we typically find someone by their username. On messenger apps, however, we still largely find and save a new contact with a ...

Our phones are a direct line to us, but sometimes we don’t want to give our numbers out to just anyone. They have more information attached to them than we might realize. Instead of giving your real ...

You can block or unblock a number on an Android phone using the built-in Phone app's "Blocked numbers" menu.

If you don’t want to receive calls from specific or unknown numbers on your Android phone, you can block them all using the ...