SMS

American Performance car maker, SMS Supercar, have just announced its prices for the SMS 460 and SMS 460X. Both are fully certified and street legal and are fitted with custom supercharged V8s delivering 470hp (350kW) and 427lb-ft (578Nm) of torque and 655hp (488kW) and 600lb-ft (812Nm) of torque respectively.

The MSRP of the 460 Mustang will be $64,990 for the Coupe and $69,990 for the Convertible. No info yet on the 460X version. Read more

Palringo is available for Windows and Mac (currently in testing) but its niche seems to be when used on a mobile handset like an iPhone or Blackberry.

For your existing contacts it supports Google Talk, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live!, etc. but also adds a dedicated Palringo account. This Palringo service has easy to add or join Groups providing office and small business users a convenient way to communicate.

A feature that might prove useful is voice and picture instant messages. Send a quick voice message to a co-worker.

Beejive has a somewhat similar IM client and Fring competes on the iPhone. Read more

Google Labs is rolling out a feature that will allow you to send a SMS message to a friend's cell phone from inside Gmail's chat. This is not groundbreaking news in and of itself. Yahoo and AOL already have this. SMS via AOL/AIM is the one reason I still use AIM every now and then.

Instead of sending email to the cell service provider or create a temporary id, your gmail account will be assigned a phone number in the 406 area code.

Unfortunately I mostly use a Google Apps account so don't normally see all these cool new things available in the Labs. A regular gmail.com account of mine does not have this feature added yet. So I can't use it yet.

Has anybody tried it yet? What are your impressions?

Via: Techcrunch: Gmail Labs Adds Text Messaging Feature

and Webmonkey: OMG! Gmail Adds SMS Chat