Google adds two-way, free SMS to Gmail
Announced yesterday. Uses the GTalk chat system. US only for now. Free for you, but each "Enter" you make counts as a text to the person on the phone. Hands-on write-up on VentureBeat. Skype offers SMS (although not in Beta 4 for Windows) for a fee and outbound only.
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US only for now. Sigh. But inevitable.
skype 4 has SMS
Skype 4 does have SMS, but it remains send-only. The GTalk innovation is that a conversation looks like SMS to the mobile user and chat to the GTalk user.
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