GrandCentral comes out of its coma as Google Voice
TechBlog — ... SSL certificate is not a big deal. Just accept the expired certificate because you trust the site and move on. But that's not the point. It's yet more evidence that if the GrandCentral folks are still at Google, they're working on something else. The GrandCentral support forum is filled with questions and problems, and there has been no official answer to anything. It turns out GrandCentral was not dead, just resting . Now, GrandCentral is being resuscitated as Google Voice , coming out of its apparent coma in style. gvoice From the Official Google Blog ...

Google Voice: One Number & More
dailywireless.org — ... You should be able to sign in to voice.google.com, pick up a new phone number in your local area code, and assign your various phone numbers to it. Now, when you get voice mail calls on your various phones, the messages are transcribed for free. They instantly show up in your Gmail e-mail box. ...

Voicemail is dead
CrunchGear — ... at Slate makes a good point: voicemail, the clunky old process of “pressing 1 to play, 9 to delete,” is dead. Transcription services like Google Voice and ...

Voice Mail, Deleted Forever
bookofjoe — ... Since March, I've been using Google Voice, the search company's fantastic Web app that gives you a single number to connect all your phones and lets you make rules about who can call which phone when. Voice is packed with many other amazing tricks, but there's one feature that I've come to value above all: The software transcribes voice mail messages into text. Now every time someone leaves me a message, I get it as an e-mail. It's not perfect, of course—Farhad often turns into Bob or Todd. But I'll take it. Voice mail is one of the most inefficient, socially ...

Google--market disruptor or destroyer
Webware.com — ... Google Voice has the potential to creatively destroy the telephone industry. While at the moment it needs existing phone networks to function, there's reason to believe the company will at some point begin offering phone service of its own, or at the very least work with mobile carriers (as it is with its Android mobile phone operating system) to create a Google-branded telecommunications experience. But unlike other Internet-based telephone solutions that require people to transfer their numbers and contacts to the new system, Google Voice will also work for people who don't ...

Google Voice Makes My Life So Much Easier
jkOnTheRun — ... Google Voice is still in private beta, you have to get invited in to get an account. It’s been running for a while now and those who had Grand Central accounts (Google bought them) got grandfathered in so quite a few of you are already enjoying Google Voice. I didn’t have an old account so I never got an invite and I’ll truthfully admit I pulled some strings to get one. I won’t name names as I don’t want anyone to get in trouble but thank you, you know who. ...

Google Voice May Open to All Today [News]
Lifehacker — The Today Show takes a look at Google Voice this morning (as we did three months ago ), with correspondent Janet Shamlian offering a very generalized overview of its call filtering/forwarding and voicemail transcription features. We're keeping an eye on it, but Google Voice 's login page is still pegged with "Coming soon" and "Existing GrandCentral users." Still, Shamlian confirmed that Google Voice would be "available today, nationwide," so stay tuned if you're eager to grab a number and try it out. Thanks Pat!

Google Voice Invites Going Out to Reservations List [News]
Lifehacker — [image] The Today Show takes a look at Google Voice this morning (as we did three months ago ), with correspondent Janet Shamlian offering a very generalized overview of its call filtering/forwarding and voicemail transcription features. As of this morning, Google Voice 's login page was still pegged with "Coming soon" and "Existing GrandCentral users." Shamlian says in the clips that Google Voice would be "available today, nationwide." Update: Google Voice's official Twitter account just posted that "Invites to people on reservations list" ...

Google Voice is Opening Up Today: Here is What You Can Expect
ReadWriteWeb — ... , Google is getting ready to open up its free Google Voice service to more users. According to NBC's Janet Shamlian, who did a piece about Google Voice for the Today Show this morning, the service might actually open up for all U.S. users today - though as much as we would like this to be true, we think the reporter got this part of the story wrong. If you haven't done so already, however, now would be a good time to get your ...

Google Voice Starts to Open Up
Technologizer — ... Betas of Google services are legion, but Google Voice’s beta has gotta be one of the most suspenseful of them all: In the two years since Google bought the service formerly known as GrandCentral, it’s restricted access to folks who were using GrandCentral at the time of the acquisition. ...

MacVoices #984: An Introduction to Google Voice by Julio Ojeda-Zapata and Chuck Rogers
MacVoices — Google Voice is finally issuing invitations and welcoming new users. What’s all the excitement about? Two enthusiastic advocates of Google’s telephony service, tech columnist Julio Ojeda-Zapata and Mac consultant Chuck Rogers, deliver a primer for new users. Yes, Google Voice can consolidate all your telephone numbers into one, but that’s only the start. The panel talk about voice mail transcription, email support, call screening, call presentation, and more. Find out about free or inexpensive phone calls, call widgets for your web site, ...

Google Voice Goes Mobile on Blackberry, Android
AppScout — ... Despite the fact that few people have the service and it's still limited invite only, Google Voice is branching out from the PC browser (where it is a ...

Google Releases Google Voice App for BlackBerry and Android. Now Let’s Hope It Releases Google Voice.
Technologizer — ... Google Voice just got more useful for BlackBerry and Android users: Google has released apps for both platforms that provide access to the service’s features. Sounds like the most significant aspect is that they make dialing outgoing calls using your Google Voice number a whole lot easier. (If you use your phone’s “real” number to call folks, they can use Caller ID to see the number and may add it to their address books, thereby making it a lot tougher to train the world to use your Google Voice number as your only phone number.) ...

Pull the Plug or Life Support? Google Wants To Know Your Final Wishes
ReadWriteWeb — ... Just remember that for a growing number of people, Google now knows about our search histories, our email lives, our telephone activity, our ...

GV Mobile and Voice Central pulled from App Store
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: App Store Earlier today, iPhone developer Sean Kovacs posted on his blog that his Google Voice client, GV Mobile, is getting pulled from the App Store due to "duplicating features that the iPhone comes with (Dialer, SMS, etc)." Kovacs says he received a call from an Apple staffer, who "wouldn't send a confirmation email either - too scared I would post it." The app still appears in the App Store, but when you attempt to purchase it you will be told "The item you tried to buy is no longer available." We've also heard that ...

Is AT&T behind the rejection and removal of Google Voice apps?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... more thing: who else thinks it's ironic that a company started by a couple of guys who spent lots of time phone phreaking in a garage in the 1970s now kowtows to AT&T and kills apps that help people make cheaper calls? TUAWIs AT&T behind the rejection and removal of Google Voice apps? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...

No Google Voice Apps for the iPhone
Technologizer — ... Google Voice aficionados–of which there are more by the day–were excited to see mobile apps for the service launch for Android and BlackBerry devices. The general consensus: A similar iPhone app must be right around the corner. Not so fast. The unofficial GV Mobile app written by Sean Kovac has been rejected by Apple or, more likely, AT&T, according to Mashable and Kovac. GV Mobile lets Google Voice account holders dial numbers through the address book ...

Apple pulls Google Voice apps from iPhone store
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... Google Voice, for those who have not used it, is Google’s new free voice-over-IP service that aims to do for telephony what Gmail did for e-mail: provide a single, permanent phone number you can use for as long as you wish no matter how many times you change landline or cellphone providers. You can set that single number to ring your landline, cell, and work phones simultaneously. ...

The Google Voice rejection: What's needed now
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... this kind of excess. AT&T's tight relationship with Apple might be affecting how Apple runs App Store, as might be the case with the Google Voice rejection. Continue reading The Google Voice rejection: What's needed now TUAWThe Google Voice rejection: What's needed now originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...

FCC Queries Apple, AT&T, and Google about Google Voice App
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... The functionality that Google Voice and related apps duplicate are the ones used by Apple's Phone app - more specifically, features for which AT&T; charges iPhone owners. Google Voice gives you a phone number, voicemail service (including text transcription of messages), and free phone calls. ( ...

Google Voice: You Can Get it Now If You Are in the U.S. Military
ReadWriteWeb — ... Google is giving free Google Voice accounts to active U.S. service members who have a .mil email address. While we are still waiting for Google to finally open up its telephony service to all users, Google today ...

How I Learned To Quit The iPhone And Love Google Voice
CrunchGear — ... , port my mobile phone number to Google Voice and use any mobile device that I pleased (or lots of them at once) in the future. Today I'm pleased to report a status update on those efforts: complete. I am no longer a member of the ...

A Sense Of Community
Planet Android — ... and Google Voice. Afterwards people were invited to show what they have been working on. People asked questions of the developer and offered suggestions. ...

Whose iPhone is It Anyway?
Technologizer — ... . We can deal with different ways of doing things, especially when there are clear benefits such as the ones Google Voice offers. We might even prefer someone else’s approach to Apple’s way of doing things. ...

What's the best phone for Google Voice?
Webware.com — Dear readers: We are testing a new commenting system, JS-Kit's Echo, in this post. In addition to providing a more comprehensive sign-on system and real-time updating, Echo also collates comments on this story from other Web sources, such as Twitter. Check out the action at the end of the post. --Rafe. I've been a fan of Google Voice since I started using it in earnest back in March. I now give out my Google Voice number (get yours here, but be prepared to wait a bit before it arrives) more than my mobile phone or my desk phone, and even have ...

Google Voice Finally Marries SMS And Email
TechCrunch — ... A long requested feature of Google Voice was a simple one: forward inbound text messages to email. Google Voice users get voicemails auto-transcribed and emailed to them, but text messages were not. Users can read and respond to them online in addition to their phones in the normal way, but email forwarding wasn’t an option. ...

Google Voice integrates SMS and email
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google Voice users can get auto-transcribed voicemails emailed to them; but text messages were only available in a normal way, online & on phone, and email forwarding option wasn’t available. Now Google Voice allow users to forward inbound text messages to email. And even better, you can reply from email as well. ...

New in Google Voice: Receive and Reply to SMS by Email
ReadWriteWeb — ... , Google Voice users can route around yet another feature their cell phone carriers would like them to pay for: text messages. Google Voice now allows users to receive and, more importantly, reply to text messages by email without incurring any charges from their cell phone carriers. By default, Google Voice forwards SMS messages to the cell phone a user has on record with Google Voice. Now, this new feature allows users to simply to forward these text messages to any email address. Responding to these messages is as easy as replying to the email. ...

Google Voice and Gmail are sort of merging
Webware.com — Two new little Google Voice features just made their way into Gmail. A new option lets text messages sent to Google Voice show up as e-mail messages in Gmail. You can reply to messages from Gmail, too, which makes it a nice platform for carrying on a text message conversation. ...

Palm Pre App Catalog is Growing with Solid Software
jkOnTheRun — ... , is now official. That’s the “as close t native as you can get” Google Voice software I use on my Pre. AccuRadio makes an appearance as well, allowing you to stream digital radio on the go. Simple Bible is what it says — a King James Version of the Bible that offers four different font sizes. Gamers can indulge in three new titles: Video Poker, Lights Out and Checkers all make it to the official catalog. And since I get most of my news from my phones these days, I’ll probably add the new Forbes app to my handset too. Local Concert, Currency ...

Google Voice Tip — Switch Phones While on a Call [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network — ... Are you using Google Voice with more than one phone, like I am? If so, you might find this tip to be very handy. Aside from that, I think it’s totally cool and I can’t wait to actually try it! To switch phones while on a Google Voice call, you ...

Google Wave meets conference calls, with Ribbit
Webware.com — ... See also Zorap from Demo, which is similar, although without a Wave widget. I looks like both of these apps blend perfectly with the Wave experience, which is part e-mail, part IM, part groupware. They show how in a modern communications system, the barriers between text and voice and video communication, and more interestingly between asynchronous and real-time communication, really do begin to dissolve. What's not clear is how or if Google will integrate Google Voice into Wave. That's a big shoe that has yet to drop. Click to see video ...

Exclusive Look At GoogleVoiceForS60 For Symbian
Symbian-Guru.com — ... Google Voice is a service from Google that has received quite a bit of press this year. First, they finally re-opened it up to invites and new registrations, and then there was quite a furor over applications for various mobile platforms not getting approved. Unfortunately, none of those platforms was Symbian, which meant that we Symbian users were stuck using various workarounds to get our Google Voice on. Fortunately, that’s starting to change. ...

The Empire Strikes Back: FCC Probes Google Voice
Wired: Epicenter — ... In August, an FCC inquiry into Apple’s rejection of iPhone apps for Google’s Voice service revealed that AT&T and Apple had an agreement to block internet telephony applications, such as Skype, from the iPhone. Apple dropped that restriction this week. ...

Google Voice Invites Now Available
ReadWriteWeb — The innovative telephony app Google Voice is now making invitations available to new users, according to an announcement on the Official Google Blog. Users with existing accounts can send up to 3 invitations and the rest of us can request invites via http://google.com/voiceinvite. Google Voice has been a very controversial and closely watched product for some time, but we wrote an extensive review this summer. Our writer Frederic Lardinois said this at the time: "We have used Google Voice ever since it was still GrandCentral (Google acquired ...

Google Voice Without a New Number
Technologizer — ... Until now, every story praising Google’s Google Voice phone service has had to explain one significant catch: All of its useful features required you to train your friends, relatives, and acquaintances to forget whatever phone number you’d given them and to start using a new one assigned to you by Google. ...

BT's Ribbit releasing Google Voice competitor
Webware.com — ... Sure, Google Voice is cool, but it's not necessarily the best Web-meets-phone service one can imagine, is it? The field is still open, and switchboard-in-the-cloud company ...

Leaked PDF Reveals Google Voice International Plans
The Next Web — Google Voice is arguably the US equivalent to Spotify. Nothing but good things have been spoken about the service and international Google fanatics are waiting enviously for the day Google announces international availability. The bad news is that no date is confirmed. The good news is that it’s definitely coming, agreements are in place and Google let it slip in a PDF letter that was apparently “formatted improperly” to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In the letter, that Business Week managed to get a peak ...

Google Acquires Gizmo5
901am — ... Google Voice sounds like the best thing to happen to telephony since the cellphone, but it does lack one important ingredient: a softphone client. That’s about to change as Google ...

Google will shut down GrandCentral on December 31
Download Squad — ... evolved into Google Voice, it was only a matter of time before the old GrandCentral website went to the big page archive in the sky. Google's killing off the old, redundant site on December 31st, 2009. Why the heck is this news? After all, GrandCentral users can all upgrade to Google Voice. Well, it turns out that GrandCentral's website has something that Google Voice doesn't: your old data. ...

Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2009
ReadWriteWeb — ... Google loves to enter markets where the status quo prevails and turn things on their head. With Google Voice, the search giant is ...