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CNNMoney: Google: Your new phone carrier?updated: Sat Jan 01 2011 20:47:00

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 finally approves Google Voice appupdated: Tue Nov 16 2010 18:05:00

Apple began carrying Google's free voice app for iPhone on Tuesday, after the application hung in limbo for more than a year.

Google Voice app coming to the iPhone?updated: Tue Sep 14 2010 17:19:00

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.

CNNMoney: Google makes bold move to battle Skypeupdated: Thu Aug 26 2010 11:37:00

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 opens to all, no longer invite-onlyupdated: Wed Jun 23 2010 16:18:00

Google Voice opened to the public Tuesday.

Google Voice finally on iPhone, in the browserupdated: Tue Jan 26 2010 16:37:00

Google's end run around Apple's App Store is complete: Google Voice is ready as a Web application.

Google poised to become your phone companyupdated: Fri Nov 13 2009 08:19:00

Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process.

CNNMoney: Skype, PayPal fuel eBay revenue growthupdated: Wed Oct 21 2009 18:28:00

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.

Rejected by Apple, iPhone developers go undergroundupdated: Fri Aug 07 2009 12:47:00

Apple is the exclusive gatekeeper to its iPhone App Store, able to reject apps at will -- as it did July 28 with Google Voice.

Staying in touch while you're on the roadupdated: Fri May 01 2009 11:57:00

With these handy tools, you can update the folks back home without ever having to slow down.

Skype for iPhone -- it's officialupdated: Wed Apr 01 2009 16:33:00

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?updated: Wed Mar 04 2009 11:45:00

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

For nearly a century, the phone, and voice as we know it, have existed largely in the confines of a thin copper wire. But now service providers can convert voice calls into tiny Internet packets an...

Business 2.0: The Office Phone Meets P2Pupdated: Wed Dec 01 2004 00:01:00

Upstarts like Vonage and Skype are bringing voice-over-IP to the masses. But a bigger opportunity lurks in the $2 billion corporate phone market. Now, New York-based startup Popular Telephony is of...

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