Tag archive: google voice

Almost a year ago Google embedded Google Voice VoIP-based voice calling into its popular free Gmail offering for users in the United States; now, the company is hoping to convince even more Gmail users to try VoIP calling by taking the program global: over the next few days, voice calling within Gmail will roll out in 38 languages and offer service to 150 destination countries. And just to make the deal more appealing, Google has lowered its… Read More

While Gmail has supported video and voice calls to other computers since late 2008, they rolled out calls to landline and mobile phones to U.S. and Canadian consumers last year. Announced in an official blog post, Google improved on the calling service with the addition of multi-call support.  This upgrade allows users to send and receive multiple calls at once. Identical to the concept of call waiting, users can switch between calls with the… Read More

Spam has been a scourge of email for decades—but even before that, unsolicited telemarketing calls were the bane of the phone system. That plague of unwanted marketing calls has proceeded into the digital age, with services like Google Voice sometimes being inundated with calls from telemarketers. Now, Google has rolled out a new spam filtering tool for Google Voice that will automatically route calls, voicemail, and texts Google thinks are… Read More

The gig is up: American cellphone users are quickly abandoning text messaging plans that make wireless companies bundles in profit, reports the Wall Street Journal. Americans sent and received over 1 trillion text messages in the second half of 2010, shows a study from wireless industry watcher CTIA. While that may sound high, it's actually only an 8.7 percent increase from the six months prior — the lowest jump to date. Until recently,… Read More

Facebook and Google are reportedly courting VoIP provider Skype for some kind of partnership, according to multiple unnamed sources speaking to Reuters. One anonymous tipster suggests that Mark Zuckerberg is considering an acquisition of the Luxembourg-based company while another reveals that both Facebook and Google have had discussions about a possible joint venture with Skype. The VoIP service registered last summer to go public, but the… Read More

Sprint may not be too happy with the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile, but there are still reasons for the company to celebrate today. A now-removed listing on its website revealed that Nexus S is coming to the network with “fully integrated” support for Google Voice, Engadget reports. “Use the same number for all your calls and get cool features like voicemail transcription, Web calling and more,” a search on… Read More

Google has won over many phone users with its Google Voice offering that enables users to manage how their phone calls get routed (to mobiles, landlines, and even computers) as well as voicemail and cheap long distance calling. Using Google Voice usually meant getting a new phone number and the arduous work of telling that to all your friends…but not any more. Google has officially launched Number Porting for Google Voice: for $20, U.S.… Read More

Google Voice has become increasingly popular, and is now offering a new feature that allows users to port existing phone numbers to the VoIP service. Up until this point, the only contention customers had with Google Voice was the inability to use their existing mobile phone numbers to make outgoing calls. For the time being, this is merely a test run, but a Google spokeswoman told Engadget it will eventually be offered to everyone “in the near… Read More

The country has blocked sites like Facebook and YouTube (and of course famously struggled with Google), and now it looks like China will add Skype to the list of digital companies on its bad side. An article from the Shanghai Daily featured on the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology website reports that seeing as the service utilizes VoIP technology, it is illegal. According to the publication, the only Internet phone… Read More

Google has announced it will extend free phone calling from Gmail throughout the entire 2011 calendar year, meaning that Gmail users in the United States will be able to continue placing free calls to numbers in the U.S. and Canada. The service also offers low rates for international calls to other countries. “In the spirit of holiday giving and to help people keep in touch in the new year, we're extending free calling for all of… Read More

After a lengthy delay, the location-based Google Latitude app is now available in the Apple App Store. The free app is similar to Foursquare and Gowalla, allowing users to identify the location of friends and to tag their own location as well. The app will run in the background to update locations even if an iPhone is locked. Latitude briefly appeared in App Stores outside of the U.S. last week, but quickly vanished with no reason given. One… Read More

Sure, iTunes now has the Beatles Anthology available for download, but Apple's got bigger news: the Google Voice app is here. It may not have warranted a full-page notice, but there are plenty of iPhone users out there celebrating Google Voice's long-coming availability in the App Store. Prior to today, users were limited to using Google Voice on the Web only, but to fantastic results. It’s been wildly popular, allowing users to make… Read More

It's been over a year since Google first previewed Google Voice, a Web-based service that basically enables users to set up a “virtual” phone number that can ring on a number of devices, handle voice mail and notifications, enable users to set up custom greetings and alerts, and much more. Now, Google has officially opened up Google Voice to the public—at least for users in the United States. Among Google… Read More

In the complex kitchen sink of fees AT&T has built up around the iPhone, with separate billing for phone minutes, text messages, and even AT&T Navigator, the obligatory unlimited data plan has been like a Swiss Army knife taped shut: Technically, it can replace many paid features – including voice functionality – but Apple’s strict rules for apps have prevented it from doing so.

Apple and Google must have “hugged it out” when we weren’t looking because Google Voice has slipped onto the iPhone. Apparently, Google has remedied the situation by adding a dash of HTML5 into Voice's Web interface. It looks like Google and Apple got over their spat [not really] with or without the FCC.  The new Google Voice mobile Web app is for iPhone OS 3.0 and higher and Palm Web OS devices.