iPhone App Causes Google To Shut Down SMS Service

Posted by Chris Benjamin in Internet, Mobile Mar 15th, 2009 | no responses

A few days ago 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.

See the article at Slashdot.

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