Google to pull its SMPP API

Developers will not be able to put free SMS sending modules to their applications anymore. In fact it is not a surprise to anyone, google was planning to compensate the SMS with advertising. But even they could not find a way to attract the optimum traffic.

This step by google has affected Innerfence more than anyone else. Innerfence is a company (or should I call was) whose iphone application allowed buyers to send SMS messages around the world while Google paid the network operators for the traffic. I believe there will be trials between the buyers and innerfence, which is a shame for a nice application.

The only way to offer free SMS is start a program just like blyk. For every commercial watched, some free sms could be offered. In fact there are lots of examples for this but none has succeeded yet. The formula might be (Social Network + Commercials) = FreeSMS.

For one example of this visit the Facebook Sponsored SMS application, FaceSMS - http://apps.facebook.com/sponsorsms/ I have to warn you, if there is not a sponsor at the moment you click, you are not allowed to send text.

Game over Handango

• The Android Marketplace for free apps will go live Monday.
• Iphone applications is being installed via Installer or via Appstore for more than one year.
• We have got Nokia's OVI.
• RIM is planning to open its app store in March 2009.
• Samsung says their's is coming pretty soon.

Can we say "game over Handango and Motricity duopoly"?

The least we can expect is people to start picking their handsets on the basis of what applications they run, and is prepared to spend money to make sure the greatest applications work on their devices.
By the way it is remarkable that third party developers will start making money out of this :)