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iPhone App Causes Google To Shut Down SMS Service
An anonymous reader writes "A few days ago, Inner Fence released a paid iPhone app called Infinite SMS, which let iPhone users employ Google's free SMS gateway to send SMS messages without paying their service providers. The resulting surge in traffic on Google's SMS gateway forced Google to block all third-party applications from using the free SMS feature — including Google's own GTalk client."
...except that inner fence have presumably sold a lot of now useless copies of their tool. So they are ahead a few bucks.
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This is great I'll be able to finish all the stuff I was supposed to do last week.
Google: SMS chat is still just an experiment in the early testing stages in Gmail Labs. By the way, check out our new service Google Voice which is launching with full SMS support.
Have you remembered to give him that special kind of "thank you" that we all know he deserves?
A tyranasaurus rex stepped on manners when it leaned over to bite politefulnesses' head off.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Reminds me of NeoOffice. When are these Apple developers going to get the point that freely available things are not so they can make a profit off somebody else's work.