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If you are looking for websites to send free SMS to your friends on the occasion of Friendship Day, we have few suggestions for you. Here is the list of top 5 websites providing free short message service (SMS).

FullonSMS.com is a new website offering free SMSes to any mobile number in India. Users can send SMS with maximum 160 characters.

Hotmail users can now get alerts of new mails on their mobile phones via SMS. This service is completely free, requires just a simple setup and no GPRS connectivity is needed!

India’s leading SMS based social networking site, SMS Gupshup, has launched an app store for promotion and distribution of SMS based applications.

BSNL is going to launch a SMS money order service in association with India Post. Using this service, users would be able to send and receive money via SMS.

Indiatimes has launched a free SMS alert service for bollywood fans. This service will send latest news, updates, links to images and videos etc. to users without any charge.

SMS TWEET is a free service to update twitter using SMS even without Airtel connection. Its service number is non-premium, hence you don’t need to pay premium SMS charges for posting tweets to twitter.

Google recently added a new feature to reset your Google account password – now you can reset your password by SMS.

If you are working hard towards improving your English (like me), here is a cool option for you – now access the  Dictionary on SMS, and hence you don’t need to carry the pocket oxford everywhere.

Just SMS define xyz to 9 77 33 00000 [ India ] for getting meaning of xyz, i.e., SMS define typo and you will get reply as Typo: an abbreviation for typographical errors.
This service is provided by Google Search and is totally free. You don’t need to pay any premium charge, just normal SMS rates …

A great news for those, who don’t have the enabled phone in India : Now you can search Google via SMS and that without paying any premium charges!
Just sent your queries to 9-77-33-00000 and get information about cricket scores, Indian Railways train schedules & ticket status, horoscopes, movie showtimes, restaurant information and more. To get started sms “help” to 9-77-33-00000.

The best side of this service : you will be n’t charged @ Rs. 3/- like other similar services. Just pay standard SMS charge and enjoy the SMS search.
To see the …

“A picture worths 1000 words“. Want to send Picture Messages (picture SMSs) to friends and relatives on this Deepawali (& forever) for free?

I have already wrote about Vakow. Using this you can post tweets to Twitter @ cheaper rates. Vakow offers 100% free Picture SMSs for you. You can send picture messages to your friends and relatives without paying any cost.
The best side of the Vakow is that anyone can create & share your own Picture messages with others. Hence, it is the unique service of its kind. The messages …

Want to get Free Alerts of new Emails coming to your Gmail account via SMS? Here are 3 tricks for this!

Trick #1:  Go to Settings > Forwarding > Enable Forwarding and enter the target email address like : xyz@Mailbucket.org. Now, go to Google SMS Channel > Create a new SMS Channel and make it PRIVATE. In the Source option, enter the RSS feed URL : mailbucket.org/xyz.xml and you are done!

If you are interested in getting alerts for some specific emails only, create a filter and then opt for forwarding. Note …

Twitter offers 250 per week as device updates and hence, you can get updates of your friends via SMSs. But, this number may finish within a DAY, if your social circle is large. Most of the tweeple are forced to OFF the device updates for relatively less important friends and miss their updates on SMS.

Here is a trick to overshoot this limit.
The trick is very tricky, completely Free, and only for Indian users. Just follow these steps :

Get your unique RSS feed URL. It should be something like : …

Indians love SMS and Google now knows this. Google India has launched a new product called Google SMS Channels , Which is a group SMS service for FREE , just like the popular SMS GupShup and Vakow [ Read More about these services ] .

You can start you own SMS Group (Channel) or subscribe to other channels. A channel owner can add stuffs to the Channel via different sources. You can get your channel updates from Blogger or Google Groups or Google News or RSS/Atom feeds ( Attention Bloggers …

Twitter has nice integration for SMSs , and everyone loves reading ( & sometimes posting )  Tweets using SMSs . If you don’t have a GPRS enabled mobile device ( or don’t use GPRS ) then SMSs are best option to use Twitter from anywhere . For Indian users , Twitter sends 250 SMSs per week and you don’t need to pay for it ! While , posting tweets via SMS costs you Rs. 3 per tweet , which is quite expensive !
But , you don’t need to worry anymore. …

CAT , The Common Apptitute Test , Entrance exam for admissions in IIMs has included a new feature for delivering scores . CAT Scoreswill now be available through SMS and email.
According to a story published on The Hindu ,Head of the IIM-Ahmedabad examination committee Satish Deodhar said ,“When the CAT results are announced, lakhs of candidates log on to the IIM website to know the results. This puts a lot of load on the website. So, we have decided to introduce the service that would allow the …

SMS blogging is the hottest trend in the cyberworld. People are enjoying posting and reading SMS Blogs. SMS Blogs are actually mass-forwarding of SMSs to subscribers!
Though, I am interested in SMS Blogging right now, but here are some links for SMS-Bitten people!

SMS GupShup : This is a new start-up which offers FREE Group SMSs. You can create your Own group and can start posting .You can also subscribe to other groups in the same manner, you subscribe to normal weblogs. …