Mabber: no more need to pay SMS
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We are like you. We send too many short text message on mobiles and when the end of the month comes, we screams at the bills. The reason still remains the same: (we talk too much and) mobile service providers keep SMS rates over a decent rate. Now,Mabber is telling us that we don’t need to pay for SMS anymore. How? Free software, free service. Great!
Mabber is the short name for mobile Jabber. The tech guys responsible for its development regularly contribute to the Jabber foundation and other softwares build on top of the Jabber protocol. So basically, they stay focused on how lowering every kind of service to ordinary non-geek people.
Free SMS for all
The look-and-feel of the software is rudimentary. But its magic is outside the web, on the mobile phones. They just need to be Java-enabled ― the only requirement and drawback ― prior to download the corresponding applet and start text conservations or sending SMS.
Mabber offers no more functionalities as its current open source brother applications. Detect presence on the line, start and stop conversations, save texts, transfer files, but that should be enough for a text messaging software still in beta testing.
Mabber will certainly be proposed to customers of the German portal site Neu.de, Blogg.de and MP3.de, all sister companies of NU2M, directed by the Mabber lead developer, Nico Lumma.
Universal soldier
Jabber users know it already. All MSN, AIM and Y! Messenger contact lists could be imported in a Jabber client, without any difficulties depending on the IM. That makes Mabber one of the most universal mobile application so far available.It is also implemented on XMPP, the Google Talk’s favorite protocol.
As Skype isn’t still willing to open its voice chat application, the user population might be not that big. But it’s up to you to go convince all of your Skype contacts.
Nik Cubrilovic, who writes on Techcrunch while Mr. Arrington is off for some days, has already tried it. He loved it.
Feb 24, 2006 | By Nuno
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please send me an invitration for mabber at rajaranjeeth@rediffmail.com
Sorry Ranjeeth, we cannot give you an invitation at the moment. But you can ask for one if you register on their website. They are quite quickly to answer. Wish you could soon try Mabber.