A fresh mobile web portal entitled Mjoy, has recently started to offer a service that many people will surely enjoy: free text SMS messages. The service doesn’t have any limitations, in other words, you can send unlimited text messages to anywhere in the world, and the final cost will be zero.

How does it work? Easy. Visit www.mjoy.com and register.

Unlike other services that provide free SMS, this one doesn’t need any kind of installations in terms of software, because everything is done on the browser. In the near future Mjoy wants to start providing other types of free services and content on the mobile web world, like shopping, social networking, news, and more.

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There have been a few text messaging spikes at AT&T during recent years, but the biggest spike happened during the Election Night in which a 44% jump was reported.

According to AT&T this was the highest spike in their history, and it even passed the New Year’s Eve record of 2007.

Mark Collins from AT&T comments:

The spike on Tuesday night rang true for us. Texting has become so valuable a communication tool that it is how people are sharing thoughts and information and connecting with each other in even the most important moments.

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Bebo, a social networking web site, forms an affiliation with Kadoink, a mobile web service which offers streaming of audio and text files, to enhance end user experience. Bebo incorporates a couple of Kadoink-powered functionalities — the Music Call and the Group BuzzText. The former allows Bebo members to share audio files via SMS messaging while the latter is used to create mobile chat groups. As always, the first rule in social networking web sites is to be careful who you’re dealing with — especially now your connection extends to your personal mobile phones.

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