message service

Example Sentences

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The term "smishing" is a combination of "SMS", or "short message service" - the technology behind text messages - and "phishing".

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

RCS is like the more modern cousin of short message service, or SMS.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2023

There’s a stack of red, green and yellow containers for a pneumatic tube system — like you might see at a bank drive-through — used for an interoffice message service before the advent of email.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2022

Citizen Lab began its investigation in 2020 after researchers working with Facebook's instant message service WhatsApp warned several Catalan lawmakers, including parliament speaker Roger Torrent, that their phones had been broken into.

From Reuters • Apr. 18, 2022

Shenzhen is home to some of China’s biggest companies including telecom equipment maker Huawei, electric car brand BYD Auto and Tencent, operator of the popular WeChat message service.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2022