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We all love to use the text message feature offered by the mobile communication devices to stay connected with our mobile family members, friends, and others. Now, we can use text messaging for free. Yahoo! Mail, one of the largest email service providers, offers a free mobile phone text messaging for users of its already free email service.

Free text messages can be sent to mobile number in the United States, Philippines, India, and Canada.

Along with the free text messaging, Yahoo! Mail also added instant messaging and enhanced email features. Users can connect in real-time to their contacts in Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Live Messenger or convert an email message into instant message chat or into a text message with a click of a button.

“We have always been focused on making it easy for people to connect to those who matter most to them, and during the beta testing period of the new Yahoo! Mail, we were able to incorporate a number of enhancements based on valuable feedback from our users,” said Yahoo! Mail. “Now, with the all-new Yahoo! Mail, we’re creating a more social e-mail experience. In addition, we wanted to make sure that people have the best possible Web mail experience regardless of their geographic location, preferences or system, so we’re continuing to offer our trusted Yahoo! Mail Classic interface.”

It is estimated that the number of mobile web sites surpassed the 1 million mark. Having so many choice makes it easier to find something you like. Usually, when we find something we like, we are eager to tip off our friends who share the same interests as we do.

The tedious act of tracking favorites and sharing them with friends on a mobile device could be a thing of the past.

A beta version of a new service Mobiseer was launched by Nubiq creator of Zinadoo a free mobile website creation tool. Mobiseer is a Web 2.0 service allowing users to tag, bookmark, share, and even create a personalized mobile page with all favorite bookmarks.

Do you want to stay in contact with your MySpace friends on the go?

A new mobile service makes this a lot easier. Tell Them is a service that allows users to blast text and pictures to your MySpace pals.

The service does not require any set up and it is easy to use. To get started you need to go to Tell Them site (http://tellthem.mobi) on your mobile phone, enter your MySpace email and password, select the friends you want to send a message to, type the message and attach the pictures, and there you go.

Traditionally, Google search traffic during summer months drops by 20% - 40% related to computer users leaving for their vacation. This summer,Google’s mobile search were on the rise reaching 35% increase in traffic. Google maps used from mobile devices jumped by 40% - 50%.

“I think this is sort of a sign that people are becoming savvier with their mobile devices, and that there are better devices” available for the Web, while away from computers, Mayer told reporters after a presentation to marketers at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose.

“The technology curve is catching up,” she told reporters after the presentation. “The phones are just better.”

The mobile search user base is still lot smaller than the number of traditional computer search users, but the increase in mobile search traffic demonstrates usefulness of mobile search engines. Mobile maps can definitely enhance any vacation or a trip.

Google says mobile usage has surged this summer [Reuters]

VOIP was a technology that helped reduced the land line phone costs. The next chapter for the VOIP technology is the mobile story.

“It’s certainly going to be more disruptive to the market than the Apple iPhone,” Engin VoIP chief executive Ilkka Tales says. “What will drive it is the key fact that it can save people money. That tends to get their attention.”

Mobile VOIP call can take one of two paths:

• a device can bypass the mobile cellular network and send calls over the wireless network instead
• a device can make use of data capability of the cellular network itself

Engin, already launched a services designed to work on mobile phones capable of Wi-Fi networks (Nokia’s N and E series handsets). Some phones are pre-loaded with required softphone settings and others can have them installed through similar methods of installing a ringtone or wallpaper. To make a phone call, the phone needs be set to locate an available Wi-Fi network. After the phone is connected, all calls use the Wi-Fi network instead of the mobile network. The current prices of these handsets restrict the service to the premium end of the market. The retail price for Nokia’s N95 Wi-Fi enabled phone is around $1,300.

“Prices will drop quickly though,” Tales says. “There are market forecasts that more than 200 million Wi-Fi handsets will be sold around the world in the next few years, and this will push the capability into the mid and low price tiers.”

Internet Phone Goes Mobile via [AustralianIT]

Borders is joining the growing mobile market. According to MarketingWeek, Borders will start sending free sample chapters to customers’ mobile devices before a book is released. If users decide that they like the book, they can purchase the book at a store using the barcode for up to 20% discount.

Borders plans to promote 30 new titles each month through the downloads. The new promotional program is built on the mobile voucher activity and illustrates a commitment to exploring how new technology can bring books to a wider audience, says Laura Stafford, Border’s CRM and online manager.