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iPhone App Causes Google To Shut Down SMS Service

Posted by kdawson on from the free-as-in-no-longer dept.

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."

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  1. TANSTASFL by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...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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    1. Re:TANSTASFL by Inf0phreak · · Score: 4, Funny

      There Ain't No Such Thing As SMS From... what? Latvia?

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  2. Re:Next target: AOL? by MartinSchou · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know somebody who set up an SMS spamming company in about 2000

    Have you remembered to give him that special kind of "thank you" that we all know he deserves?

  3. Re:Well, by Joebert · · Score: 5, Funny

    A tyranasaurus rex stepped on manners when it leaned over to bite politefulnesses' head off.

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  4. Erk, paying for a free service by dbIII · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.