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TECH – Google Voice Invites Going Out to Reservations List

By Kevin Purdy, 6:40 AM on Thu Jun 25 2009, 37,178 views

newVideoPlayer(“/googlevoice_today_lifehacker.flv”, 506, 423,””); 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 and announcing it would open today. Updates: See below.

As of this morning, though, 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” are “starting to go out today.” No indication how many at once. If you want in and haven’t signed up, request an invitation.

Update 2: And now Google Voice says the “list is huge, so it will take a while to get though them all.” Google’s official blog also confirms the invite release.

Update 3: In a related, but far more disappointing, development, Google seems to have pulled the ability to send SMS through Gmail’s chat box, at least from our view and many Twitter users’. If you still have SMS available through your chat box, let us know in the comments.

Credit – Lifehacker.com

TECH – Google Voice Invites Going Out to Reservations List

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By Kevin Purdy, 6:40 AM on Thu Jun 25 2009, 37,178 views

Update 2: And now Google Voice says the “list is huge, so it will take a while to get though them all.” Google’s official blog also confirms the invite release.

Credit – Lifehacker.com

TECH – Google Voice offers one phone number, many features AKA GrandCentral

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Google number – One number for all your calls and SMS
Call screening – Announce and screen callers Listen in – Listen before taking a call Block calls – Keep unwanted callers at bay SMS – Send, receive, and store SMS Place calls – Call US numbers for free Taking calls – Answer on any of your phones Phone routing – Phones ring based on who calls Forwarding phones – Add phones and decide which ring

Google voicemail – Voicemail as easy as email, with transcripts
Voicemail transcripts – Read what your voicemail says Listen to voicemail – Check online or from your phone Notifications – Receive voicemails via email or SMS Personalize greeting – Vary greetings by caller Share voicemail – Forward or download voicemails

Voice features – More cool things you can do with Google Voice
Conference calling – Join people into a single call Call record – Record calls and store them online Call switch – Switch phones during a call Mobile site – View your inbox from your mobile GOOG-411 – Check directory assistance Manage groups – Set preferences by group

We’ve just started to release a preview of Google Voice, an application that helps you better manage your voice communications. Google Voice will be available initially to existing users of GrandCentral, a service we acquired in July of 2007.

The new application improves the way you use your phone. You can get transcripts of your voicemail (see the video below) and archive and search all of the SMS text messages you send and receive. You can also use the service to make low-priced international calls and easily access Goog-411 directory assistance.

As you may know, GrandCentral offers many great features, including a single number to ring your home, work, and mobile phones, a central voicemail inbox that you could access on the web, and the ability to screen calls by listening in live as callers leave a voicemail. You’ll find these features, and more, in the Google Voice preview. Check out the features page for videos and more information on how these features work.

If you’re already using GrandCentral, over the next couple days, you will receive instructions in your GrandCentral inbox on how to start using Google Voice. We’ll be opening it up to others soon, so if you’d like to be notified when that happens, please send us your email address.

Posted by Craig Walker, Vincent Paquet, and Wesley Chan, Google Voice Product Managers

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Sources – googleblog.blogspot.com

https://www.google.com/voice/about

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