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Published by Adam Fraser on August 30, 2012 eBuddy XMS is a web and mobile messaging service that works across many different platforms. This means that no matter what phone you or your friends own, you can send and receive messages for free using an Internet connection. eBuddy itself isn’t a new app, but over at the Nokia Beta Labs you can download eBuddy XMS for practically any Nokia device; Nokia Asha, Nokia Anna and Belle and Series 60 devices. Include the fact that it’s also available for the Nokia N9 and Nokia Lumia shows the versatility of this messaging app. In total, eBuddy processes over 17 billion messages every month with 30 million unique monthly users. With this app loaded onto your phone, you’ll be able to send text-based messages, as well as photos, to other eBuddy XMS friends. If you’ve got lots of friends on the service, you can send messages to large numbers of people at the same time. And, if you’re into using emoticons, eBuddy has loads for you to use; there’s on...

Published by Adam Fraser on August 1, 2012 Keeping track of your monthly allowance of data, SMS and phone calls is tough – we’re all far too busy to be counting up those types of things. New Beta Labs app Counters for Nokia Lumia now keeps a track on these things for you. Download Counters now Press the Search button on your Nokia Lumia and then tap VisionScan the barcodeTap on the link when it appears on the screenInstall the application from the Windows Phone Marketplace When going about your business on your phone it’s important not to go over your allowance. If you do, you’ll end up shelling out more money to the networks next time your bill comes around and nobody wants that to happen (except for the networks, of course). To stop that from happening you’ll need to let Counters know how many minutes in calls you’re allowed to make, how many text messages you can send and how many MB or GB you’re allowed to use when browsing the Web when not connected to WiFi. Every time you make a...

Last week, we revealed that SMS is the most common form of phone-based communication in the UK. Its popularity is a worldwide phenomenon, though. (Around 700 billion texts were sent in China in 2007; individual U.S. subscribers send more than 500 a month). But why? We’ve got email, Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, Skype – a myriad of much more sophisticated tools to use.  Yet it’s plain old text messaging that gets the love. In part, that’s because it’s the lowest common denominator. Everyone’s phone is capable of text messaging. It’s also very cheap in a lot of countries: it doesn’t need a data provision and is often bolted onto contracts as a ‘free’ extra. But there’s more science to it than that. According to Internet psychologist Graham Jones, it’s about the way we classify different ways of sending messages. For many, email is associated with business and more formal communications. Social networks, on the other hand, are associated with broadcasting messages to larger groups of frie...