From robot cars to wind farms, Google's expansive ambitions have taken it into some surprising corners of the tech field. Here's another it could tackle: Becoming your telephone company.
Apple began carrying Google's free voice app for iPhone on Tuesday, after the application hung in limbo for more than a year.
Smartphone fanatics have been waiting for months for a Google Voice app to come to the Apple iPhone. Now there's a new sign that this may happen soon.
Google announced Wednesday that it will allow users to make phone calls over the Internet through its Gmail service, encroaching on territory that has thus far been dominated by Skype.
Google Voice opened to the public Tuesday.
Google's end run around Apple's App Store is complete: Google Voice is ready as a Web application.
Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process.
eBay Inc. may be trying to unload its Skype Internet phone business, but the division's 29% revenue growth helped bolster the company's third quarter results.
Apple is the exclusive gatekeeper to its iPhone App Store, able to reject apps at will -- as it did July 28 with Google Voice.
With these handy tools, you can update the folks back home without ever having to slow down.
Months after teasing us at CES with an announcement of Skype's native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday.
What is this VoIP I keep hearing about? Is it some government agency like the FBI? The CIA? The IRS? Should I be worried?
Business 2.0: The New Phoneupdated: Tue Feb 28 2006 17:18:00
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