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- Google buys GrandCentral, but integration with GoogleTalk won't happen right away
- Yes, it's true that, GrandCentral Communications has been acquired by Google. Price tag is around $50 million.As I first explained here, GrandCentral is an aggregator that lets you manage your multiple phone numbers, and control when and where your phone rings depending on location and even individual caller.A limited number...
- Tags: Google
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Google- GrandCentral deal could be rite of passage for GoogleTalk
- This morning, TechCrunch is reporting that a deal may be closing between Google and GrandCentral.GrandCentral is a widely praised (if buggy, according to some) service that enables one phone number for life, and allows you to select which phones ring. Listen in before you pick up? Not a problem.GC also...
- Tags: Predictions and Observations, Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Prediction: Google Phone will doom GoogleTalk to near-oblivion
- Prediction: Google Phone will doom GoogleTalk to near-oblivionMissing the vital piece....Google is just moving forward with technology and trying to get their ads to more eyes (or morons?) The least they can do is make a touch tablet like we all know we want, forget those stupid buttons. The one...
- Tags: GoogleTalk, Google Phone, Google Inc., phone
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- Prediction: Google Phone will doom GoogleTalk to near-oblivion
- Venture capitalist Simeon Simeonov writes that Googles Andy Rubin has around 100 people working on a forthcoming Google Phone.That grab looks like a buddy list, and is believed to be from the phone. Reportedly, the "BlackBerry-like" device will be made by Samsung. Google is talking to several cell carriers....
- Tags: Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Why Google cares about"Google Phone" more than GoogleTalk PSTN termination
- I for one, see the reasoning why Google seems to be more intent on marketing a mobile Google phone with searchable listings rather than concentrating on making its GoogleTalk more competitive as a PC-to-PSTN calling service.Its because search is what Google does best, not talk.Some will see these as separate...
- Tags: telephone, termination, Google Inc., Google Phone, GoogleTalk
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- How about AdWords via GoogleTalk?
- How about AdWords via GoogleTalk?Why would you think that you will be able to opt out of it ?What makes you think that you can opt out of it right now ? One certainly can't opt out of that using their search right now. So unless they changed...
- Tags: Strategy, GoogleTalk, Google AdWords
- Discussion threads 2005-09-06
- How about AdWords via GoogleTalk?
- Once GoogleTalk gets a significant number of users, what if Google tied in its AdWords and AdSense programs to the message subject line, or even the message text, of IM messages delivered via GoogleTalk?Here's how I see this working. You've registered with GoogleTalk, and a presence-indicator that could be included...
- Tags: GoogleTalk
- Blog posts 2005-09-03
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- The company people want Microsoft to be
- The recent announcements regarding Microsoft's plans to include native support for ODF and PDF as part of Office 2007 SP2 was certainly unexpected. They had just managed to get OXML ratified by ISO, a move that was clearly aimed to counter a format that had benefited from its decision to...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, IM, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Instant Messaging, Game Players, Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Sorry, Gizmodo, VoIP over iPhone isn't going to be "huge"
- Sorry, Gizmodo, VoIP over iPhone isn't going to be "huge"VoIP over EDGE? Right...Until the Iphone has 3G, VoIP is only possible over WiFi, which is never around for free when you really need it at least not in the US. Not sure why VoIP with an IPhone would...
- Tags: Telephony, Wireless LANs, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, WIRELESS, VoIP, Apple iPhone, Wi-Fi, Gizmodo, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-07
- New version of the Google Talk client disables voicemail and more
- New version of the Google Talk client disables voicemail and moreFile SharingAlso no more file sharing which is for me very useful! Very strange from GoogleRE: New version of the Google Talk client disables voicemail and moreI will miss "Listening to" feature.RE: New version of the Google Talk client disables...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Google Inc., Google Talk, voicemail, Google Talk client, file-sharing
- Discussion threads 2007-12-15
- Google's new APIs and their effect on Google Talk, Gmail and yes, Google Phone
- The way I interpret some newly posted information, Google could be preparing to allow developers to fashion applications that will run with Google Talk, Gmail, and more hot Google services such as the widely anticipated Google Phone. After speaking with three Non Disclosure Agreement-signing (but apparently...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Google Talk, Phone, API, Mike, E-mail Providers, Internet, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-22
- SyncPad (msi)
- SyncPad let's you have a note pad that's synchronized across multiple computers. All you need is this plug-in, GoogleTalk, and a friend with the same who is willing to act as the host for your data. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Plug-in, Host, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-09-13
- WoW GoogleTalk Friends (gg)
- This plugin will display whether your GoogleTalk contacts are currently playing or not World of Warcraft. In order to see their status, they also need to have the plug in installed. The updated status is sent to your contacts every minute. If ever you don't receive any update from a...
- Tags: Contact, Status, Potato Entertainment
- Software downloads 2007-09-11
- Buddies in Sync (gg)
- Keep in touch with your GoogleTalk friends. Buddies In Sync lets you and your friends show each other when you're using your computers to watch movies, play games, listen to music, or surf the Web. You choose what information to share, as well as who to share it with. This...
- Tags: Google Inc., Friend, Productivity, Games, Channel Management, Personal Technology, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-09-10
- Prediction: Sooner or later, Google will buy Twitter
- On one of the other blogs I write, I note that you can now import your Gmail contacts into Twitter.BTW, only your Gmail contacts. For now.It's funny, this Google-Twitter connection. I know of at least two Google alumni who have gone over there. When I step back and take...
- Tags: Google Inc., Twitter, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- Fonality releases free VoIP phone system trixbox Pro
- Big announcements today from open-source business phone systems and solutions developer Fonality.Today marks the official release of trixbox Pro. Fonality is marketing the product as a free business-grade phone system that lets business users with 5 to 500 employees to make free VoIP calls. What this means: more pressure on residential-VoIP providers as they...
- Tags: VoIP, Phone, Fonality, VoIP Phone, Phone System, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Why not a Skype Me (or similar) functionality on Facebook?
- Now, I bare my Facebook profile to the world.But no, you are not hallucinating at least I hope not.I say this because I have mashed in a "Skype Me" icon into the screen capture of my Facebook profile.What I'd really like to do is hack that Skype Me" icon into...
- Tags: Skype, Predictions and Observations
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Google buys GrandCentral, but integration with GoogleTalk won't happen right away
- Google buys GrandCentral, but integration with GoogleTalk won't happen right awayShocking price tag!We have had the GrandCentral features and more for over 10 years except we dont use VOIP. We have been concerned about quality issues so we have only used PSTN Digital Fiber Optic Lines. Maybe we...
- Tags: Business structures, Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Grand Central, Google Inc., Google buys GrandCentral
- Discussion threads 2007-07-03
- HTC beats Apple to the touch
- HTC beats Apple to the touchWell it gets more interesting by the minuteTo date, I haven't seen anything that bests the Nokia N95's convergence 'smart phone' capabilities.And, things get much much more interesting when you add to the mix Gizmo and Fring, which allow SIP, GoogleTalk, SkypeOut, MSN, and Twitter...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Nokia N95, High Tech Computer Corp., phone, HTC Touch, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-05
- Google Apps To-Do Item #72: Make OpenOffice.org into a Google Apps' offline client
- If there are two primary objections from the thick client camp when it comes to Web-based applications, then those two are lack of features and the so-called off-line problem (what some refer to as the "airplane problem"). If you need access to a Web server to retrieve Web forms (blank...
- Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
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