Google will block an iPhone application called Infinite SMS that harnesses its Google Talk chat program, the service’s owner announced recently. “Got an email from Google. They say they’re going to start blocking sometime tomorrow, 11 March 2009,”  as Innerfence wrote in their site yesterday.

This app, which cost 99 cents,  allows you to send and receive free SMS messages to US numbers using your iPod touch or iPhone. Just use your Google account, no other signups.

For now, Infinite SMS will continue to work, but when the block goes into effect, you’ll start getting an error every time you try to send a text message…

Google has claimed no grievance with Infinite SMS other than its success. Their given reason for the block isn’t abuse or wrongdoing; it’s that we brought too many users (and thus too much cost) to an experimental service.

[via Network World]