Google Launches Phone Service

[JMcEntegart]

Google today released a preview of Google Voice, an application designed to help you keep all of your phone calls neat and tidy.

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[grieve]

Telemarketers delight! LOL now they can reach on all your phones @ 1 time!

 

[hellwig]

Wait, GrandCentral created this technology, but google is rolling out their new product to existing GrandCentral customers? What is Google Voice exactly, just a rebranding of GrandCentral?

 

[afrobacon]

I can see having fun with this as long as none knows you can personalize voice messages for them...

Girlfriend calls:
"Hello, (girl talking in background) quiet my girlfriend is on the phone!... hello... hold on... do you want her to find out?!..."

Friend calls:
"Uhh yeah, this is AfroBacon leave your message after the beep; oh and Rick if your hearing this, nice job with that stripper last weekend, you should really get yourself checked. Oh and don't worry about me telling your girlfriend, my lip are sealed."

 

[JMcEntegart]

@hellwig: Google bought GrandCentral in 2007 but hadn't done anything with it (basically rebranded) to date.

 

[smk4664]

Technically, Google has been adding features to it since they bought them in 2007.

It offers Free Voice mail transcription, easy and free conference calling, Cheap International calling, and Text Message organization.
Source(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/technology/personaltech/12pogue.html?_r=1)

 

[jerreece]

[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]Wait, GrandCentral created this technology, but google is rolling out their new product to existing GrandCentral customers? What is Google Voice exactly, just a rebranding of GrandCentral?[/citation]

"Google in 2007 acquired a little service called GrandCentral"

It would appear from the first line of the article that Google bought GrandCentral.