Google Voice, Phone Sex Lines, and the FCC

Google has responded to the Federal Communications Commission regarding an issue the FCC had with Google Voice blocking calls. Google says it has blocked access to certain numbers because they noticed they were being used for phone sex lines and similar "party" lines. The...

The Google and Verizon Phone Collaboration

The new partnership between Google and Verizon should produce some pretty smart devices including the open sourced Android Software-driven Google Phone, PDAs and netbooks.  With Google's stong beliefs in open...

FCC Investigates Google Voice App Rejection

The FCC is investigating Apple's rejection of the Google Voice app from the App Store. The FCC sent letters to the three parties involved in the issue: Apple, which makes the iPhone and manages the App store;...

Michael Arrington, Top Tech Blogger, Abandons iPhone

Michael Arrington, Founder and Co-Editor from TechCrunch, published a blog post "I Quit The iPhone" about his recent decision to abandon the iPhone and AT&T. The decision was motivated by Apple's ban on Google Voice Application ealier this week. " Apple and AT&T are...

Apple Blocked Google Voice on iPhone for AT&T

Apple rejected Google Voice application from the iPhone App store, to protect their exclusive US partner AT&T. Apple's decision to block the service may have been unavoidable because Google Voice would compromise AT&T's business interest. However, the decision has...

Google Voice - Invites Arriving Quickly

After Google Voices "GV" Feature on the NBC Today show the Invites have been arriving VERY quickly. I received all of my Invites within the last two weeks. GV works exactly, if not better than promised. The only problem that I had was that I have the IPhone 3GS and it was...

Google Voice: Google Reserves 1 MIllion Phone Numbers

Google has reserved one million phone numbers, heating up speculation that Google Voice will be ready soon. The reserved numbers are all American phone numbers: the service will be free for use within the USA,...

Craig Walker: Google Voice Coming Soon, But Not Today

Google Voice (the application formerly known as Grand Central) will be opened to the general public soon, but not today. The rumor mill was in overdrive about a possible June 18 launch for the phone number consolidation service, but Craig Walker, (one of the Grand Central...

Google Launches Google Voice

Google bought out a telephony service called Grandcentral in 2007 and pretty much sat on it, until relaunching yesterday with Google Voice. So not only will Google have access to your email, it will offer a voicemail...

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