Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway.

Apple has taken a first step toward blocking the ability of third parties to read messages sent between iPhone and Android.

RCS is no longer insecure on iOS—if you're a beta tester.

iPhone users have long dreaded the Android green bubble — Apple's way of showing that a text was sent as an SMS or MMS message instead of iMessage. SMS messaging has been around since 1992, and these ...