Category Archives: Features

Announcing Google Voice Daily (gvDaily)

Posted on August 2, 2009 by

gvDaily is announced as Apple rejects Google’s app, ejects three others, and receives a letter of inquiry from the FCC. (Along with AT&T and Google.) Continue reading →

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Google Voice beta expands!

Posted on June 26, 2009 by

Google has started sending out invitations to Google Voice to people beyond the long-time GrandCentral user base. People who requested an invitation from Google are gradually receiving them. Google also started warning GrandCentral users who haven’t made the move yet … Continue reading →

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What Can PhoneTag Teach Us about Google Voice?

Posted on April 6, 2009 by

One of the most-touted features of Google Voice is its purported ability to transcribe voicemail, allowing users to funnel all their inbound communication into their email inbox. The technology is unproven; voice recognition software is infamously unreliable. But one Web … Continue reading →

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Will Upgrading Fix GrandCentral’s Broken Parts?

Posted on March 26, 2009 by

For as much as I’m in awe of the cleverness of GrandCentral, there’s one breakthrough feature that wooed me more than any other — and then broke my tech-loving heart when it stopped working: in-call recording. As a journalist, I … Continue reading →

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