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Mar

7

2011

Google Voice won’t work on Xoom – update coming for Honeycomb

by Jesse Bauer
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If you grabbed yourself a new swanky Motorola Xoom last week, and have been loading up all kinds of great apps, you may find that you’ll have a problem with Google Voice, if you use it. Apparently the app crashes on the Xoom, which has left a number of people unhappy that Google dropped the [...]

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Mar

5

2011

Gizmo5 VoIP Service Going Offline On April 3rd

by Joe Sirianni
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The popular VoIP service, Gizmo5, has announced via email to its members that it will be ending their services as of April 3rd, causing users everywhere to look for an alternative VoIP service (click pic above to read the email).  Gizmo5 was aquired by Google back in 2009 and offered cheap Internet calling with Google Voice.  An email [...]

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Jan

26

2011

Google Acquires SayNow, Plans to Integrate Into Google Voice?

by Michael Murphy
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If you’ve never heard of SayNow…you’re not alone. You may, however, remember that a lot of celebrities went through phases where they would blast a phone number on Twitter, Facebook, a commercial, or at a concert and say “Call me.” When you called that number, it gave you some pre-recorded message. You know you all [...]

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Jan

20

2011

Google Voice allows porting number option then takes it down

by Jesse Bauer
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Today users of Google Voice had seen an option that many have been waiting for, Google Voice had added the option to port your mobile number. As you can see in the pic above, the option was there, along with a friendly reminder that once you do this, your carrier may be so upset at [...]

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Dec

24

2010

TalkAndroid.com’s Top Five Free Android Christmas Apps

by Tyler Cunningham
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Tis the season, everyone! For those of our readers who are celebrating the holidays we hope you are having a great time thus far, and with Christmas now literally just around the corner, we wanted to share with you some of our favorite free Christmas apps. So, without further delay, I present to you our [...]

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Dec

8

2010

Google Voice, YouTube, and Voice Search all receive updates

by Tyler Cunningham
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If you don’t have automatic updates, you may want to crack open the ol’ Android Market and check for updates for Google Voice, YouTube, and Voice Search. The updates aren’t terribly significant, but it does appear that YouTube had commenting enabled, as well as subscription viewing. Voice Search and Google Voice both had minor updates, [...]

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Nov

6

2010

Google Voice Suffers Outage – Again!

by Jesse Bauer
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It looks as though Google Voice suffered another outage earlier today for approximately 45 minutes. Many Google Voice users as a result were unable to make calls, send or receive texts, or check their accounts online. Attempts to access the Google Voice accounts page via web showed a “502” error preventing access as well as [...]

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