How To Send Email To Any Cell Phone (for Free) Want to send a short email to a friend and get it delivered to his/her cell phone as SMS?
If you know your friends’ phone numbers and the carrier they are on then you can easily send emails to their cell phones directly from your email program. Here is how it works: Most of mobile carriers offer free Email To SMS gateways which can be used to forward simple text emails to a mobile phones. And the good news, majority of those gateways are free and available to the general public. You just need to know the number and the carrier of the recipient to start emailing them to mobile phone. Free Email To SMS Gateways (Major US Carriers) Free Email To SMS Gateways (International + Smaller US) These are all I could find from Wikipedia and other sources.
If you can’t find a gatewayd for your current provider here, check out following links: If you are aware of any other free sms to email gateways please add it in comments. MySpace Shows Facebook How It’s Done: Google Gears To Power Mess. The Google I/O conference in San Francisco kicks off today with a really welcome announcement: MySpace has integrated Google Gears into its messaging system, which will back up all messages to a user’s local machine and allow for very fast search and sorting.
This is the largest third party implementation of Gears and the first time a search and sort mail functionality has been made available on MySpace. Google Gears (actually, starting this week Google will start calling it simply “Gears”) is mostly known as an open source project that lets third party developers allow for offline access to their browser applications. Applications like Zimbra and Zoho have integrated Google Gears in this way, as well as Google’s own Google Reader. (Update: Zimbra actually uses Mozilla Prism). But in this case, MySpace isn’t that concerned with offline access (they haven’t turned the feature on yet). Google Gears performs three basic functions that are available to developers via Javascript. Urgent Changes Are Needed To Facebook Messaging. Facebook email, which they call messages, is becoming completely unusable as a personal or business productivity tool.
When I first joined Facebook it was fine. I only had a few friends on the service, and people didn’t do much with it except to occasionally say hi. But as Facebook usage has exploded, particularly where I live in the tech world, so has messaging. For many of my contacts Facebook messaging is the only way I stay in contact with them, and it is increasingly becoming the pitch platform of choice. Instead of emailing TechCrunch directly, entrepreneurs will add me as a friend on Facebook, and then send their pitch for a story.
To ignore these messages would kill off a rich source of information. For starters, simply opening emails has a serious lag time – Facebook as a whole has slowed down significantly as their growth has exploded, and it is most obvious with messaging. Advanced features are also lacking, of course. Facebook has made small changes over time to email.