Texting on the cheap
As obsessive cellphone users know, texting can get rather expensive. A new service, called Chatterbox is aiming to lower the cost by sending the messages over the Internet, bypassing your carrier's toll system in the process. Anyone with a GPRS phone or PDA can download the software, which works by sending the message as data over the phone's Internet connection to their servers and translating it back to the receiving phone. The software was originally developed for the deaf (one of the owners is deaf herself), who can rack up sizable monthly bills — imagine how expensive (and physically painful) all your mobile conversations, including those two hour ones with your mother, would be if there were all done via texting.
