Google brings text-messaging to online chat

Google is expanding the instant-messaging feature built into Gmail so people can use it to send text messages to their contacts' phones, reports News.com.

To use the feature, people can click on a chat window's settings to send a text message with SMS or type a contact's phone number in the chat contact search box. ... But the Gmail text-messaging feature doesn't work with Google's other instant-messaging options, including the chat gadget that can run on iGoogle or the Google Talk software that can be downloaded and installed on a computer.

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