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Yahoo Intros Free Texting App

Dec 2, 2011, 3:26 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Yahoo today announced Hub, a new beta messaging application that lets smartphone users send text messages and conduct group chats for free. The application makes use of a phone's data connection (Wi-Fi or cellular data) to pass messages back and forth. According to Yahoo, Hub is device agnostic, and can communicate with any other device that has a phone number. It works with other devices that don't have Hub installed, which will receive messages as an SMS. Features of Hub include group messaging; local and international SMS messaging; privacy in conversation threads; and push notifications of incoming messages. Hub is available as a beta download from the Android Market.

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jmoita2

Dec 2, 2011, 4:56 PM

A day late and a dollar short...

Ever heard of Textfree???

gloopey1

...The fact that most data plans include free SMS texting--so what's the point?

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