{"id":576,"date":"2007-02-10T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/2007\/02\/10\/google-desktop-to-offer-free-sms-texting\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:59:16","slug":"google-desktop-to-offer-free-sms-texting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-desktop-to-offer-free-sms-texting\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Desktop to offer free SMS texting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"orkut\" id=\"image577\" title=\"orkut\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/02\/orkutlogo.jpg\" \/>One of <a title=\"Google Desktop\" href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/ie\/36847\/google_desktop\">Google Desktop\u2019s<\/a> coolest features is the social networking tool Orkut. Until now, it was very much an online networking tool allowing you link up with likeminded people or search for \u201cromantic interests\u201d as Google put it. However, Orkut is now branching it out into the offline world by enabling users to send free SMS messages to mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, it\u2019s only available in Brazil where they\u2019ve come to an agreement with a local mobile network but if all goes well, the plan is for a worldwide rollout this year. The new SMS feature means Orkut\u2019s special &#8216;<a title=\"Orkut\" href=\"http:\/\/help.orkut.com\/support\/bin\/topic.py?topic=10322\">scrapping<\/a>&#8216;  feature will be extended to mobiles, allowing you to do it on the move and pretty much anywhere else you\u2019ve got an internet connection. Google also promise some new \u201chidden goodies\u201d in the new Orkut which only the \u201cadventurous\u201d will find.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this is yet another Google masterstroke remains to be seen. Other similar projects have been plagued with technical difficulties and commercial problems with the networks. Also, the fact that most people text while on the move makes us wonder whether it really will take-off.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, keep an eye on your orkut account as when its finally available in your country, there will be a message from Google telling you how to get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Google Desktop\u2019s coolest features is the social networking tool Orkut. Until now, it was very much an online networking tool allowing you link up with likeminded people or search for \u201cromantic interests\u201d as Google put it. However, Orkut is now branching it out into the offline world by enabling users to send free &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-desktop-to-offer-free-sms-texting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Desktop to offer free SMS texting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[3037],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-desktop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337914,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/337914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}