Tag: GOOGLEVOICE

A few months back, Google integrated Google Voice into Gmail, allowing users to make calls through its Web interface. (Since the debut of 'Call Phone,' we can count on one hand the number of times we've actually used it.) We did just notice, however, that Google recently added the ability to record incoming calls to the VoIP service. A small record button now appears just above the dial pad when ...

If you were bummed about this morning's over-hyped announcement about The Beatles coming to iTunes, you'll be pleased that the official Google Voice App has been approved for the App Store. The free app brings push notifications, voicemail transcription and free texting (to U.S. numbers) to a dedicated app, saving users from relying solely on the Web or third party solutions. Make sure you're ...

Earlier this month, Apple relaxed the restrictions it places on developers who want to get their products in the App Store. Almost immediately, two of the more controversial apps to have been rejected, 'GV Connect' and 'GV Mobile +,' found their way back into the iPhone marketplace. Each Google Voice app is available now for $2.99. ...

The browser add-on debate has been raging for years. Do those helpful little plug-ins help productivity or just grind your browser to a halt? Frankly, we can't live without them, and we think you might enjoy some of our favorite helpful additions, as well. With Chrome finally having a solid community of developers pumping out extensions, we thought it a perfect time to pick 13 essential plug-ins ...

Google launched its Voice program more than a year ago, but the company then granted access only to an enviable group of lucky invitees. The search engine subsequently and systematically unveiled new Voice features, and invited more participants, but still forced the general public to plead and grovel for inclusion. Those neglected, ignored and forlorn masses need wait no longer, though (as long ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Despite Twitter's firmly established place among the Web's elite, saying that Facebook dominates social networking in terms of market share still remains a massive understatement. The micro-blogging service has steadily incorporated new themes to strengthen its capabilities, though, most recently in a new Twitpic face-tagging ...

Turns out, there are benefits to being in college other than sleeping late and drinking lots of beer. According to Ubergizmo, Google sent out its first round of Google Voice invites today, but unless you have a college e-mail address, you won't find one in your inbox. For now, only users living in the U.S. with e-mail addresses that end in .edu can apply for and receive an invite to Google Voice ...

It's no secret that we're big fans of Google Voice here at Switched. But, while it's proven quite useful for archiving voicemails and text messages, we don't enjoy having to be tethered to an existing phone line in order to place and receive calls. When Google snatched up VoIP service Gizmo5 in November, though, we knew it would only be a matter of time before the company launched a full-fledged ...

Just as it did with Latitude, Google has circumvented Apple's arbitrary and frustratingly restrictive app approval process by releasing Google Voice as a Web app, tailored specifically to mobile devices like the iPhone and WebOS handsets. Everything you'd expect is present: a dial pad, a text message and voicemail inbox, contact search, and even transcripts of your voice messages. Most ...

About two weeks ago, Google released native Voice apps for Android and BlackBerry devices, but an iPhone version was suspiciously MIA. The big news on the blogosphere today is that Apple has rejected the Google Voice iPhone app -- a move that looks like the first salvo in a war pitting Apple and AT&T against Google 's revolutionary calling and texting service. Shortly after the refusal, Apple ...

It's no secret that, by now, Google has collected an absolutely absurd amount of information about you. Google knows what you search for, what Web sites you visit (Chrome), which pictures you post (Picasa), the contents of your e-mail (Gmail), who you call (Google Voice), what you watch (YouTube), what you write (Blogger), what pills you take (Google Health), where you are (Google Latitude), ...

Google has a vast catalog of wonderful, or at least potentially wonderful, applications. Unfortunately, for every top-notch, constantly-updating product like Gmail or Google Docs, there are plenty of others languishing in desperate need of attention, like Google Talk. But if there was one product that we thought most desperately needed attention, it was GrandCentral. GrandCentral was an online ...