Friday, February 10th, 2012 9:03 am

Calls accepted: Google Voice out of beta

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google Voice, Google’s free telecommunications service, is now freely available to users in the U.S.  Invitations are no longer required. User can choose a phone number and link it to any or all of their existing phones. Incoming calls will then be routing to the phones connected, and users can pick-up the [...]

24 hour invites: Google Voice for students

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google plans to put students on the fast track: Everybody with an .edu email address can now sign up for Google Voice. Google promises to send out priority invitations within 24 hours. Google Voice was launched on March 11, 2009. Users must have an established U.S. based phone service to activate Google [...]

Google Voice: Keep your mobile number

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google Voice users can now utilize their existing mobile phone number for collecting voice messages instead of applying for a Google Voice number. “Up until now, if you wanted to use Google Voice, you needed to choose a new number. Taking calls through your Google number allows us to offer features like [...]

Rift between Apple and Google widens

Cupertino (ip-192.com): Apple and Google continue to drift away. News that Apple quietly acquired Placebase, a company that develops APIs used for mapping, is the latest sign of an increasing rift. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple's acquisition actually took place this past July, and a founder of a partner company that was using [...]