Google had its first $50 billion year in 2012. With its massive investments in mobile, someday it might make that much just on the little plastic and metal devices we carry in our pockets. Here's how.
Gmail users in the U.S. and Canada are getting another year of free domestic voice calls, thanks to Google.
If you're a Google Voice user, today is not a good day to be sexting. The voice over IP calling service had a glitch this morning that associated incorrect phone numbers with outgoing text messages.
Someone needs to bring our islands of identity together in a comprehensive, universal way ... or provide a DNS-like identity service that connects them all. I just don't think it's going to be StarStar Me.
Teleconferencing is broken, and Craig Walker wants to be the man to change that. Today, Uberconference, a free audio conferencing service, has announced the public launch of its beta, and a new premium service for business users.
Google made a brief announcement today stating that Google Voice would be getting Google+ integration.
On the official Google Voice blog, we read that the two services will be linked by bringing information from your social Google+ circles into your …
Google has released a feature-rich update to its popular Google Voice app for iOS, but unfortunately it also comes with numerous bugs.
The application catches-up the iOS app to where the Google Voice Android app was a month ago. The …
YouMail, a startup that promises to help you screen creeper-calls, announced Thursday that it has answered over one billion phone calls, with 500 million of those calls occurring since September 2010. The company has also received an undisclosed round of …
Google on Wednesday announced that users who want to keep a previous Google Voice number permanently will now have the option — for a small fee.
The feature is not a major new offering, but it could help a select …
Sprint subscribers who chose to integrate their service with a Google Voice phone number may discover a higher bill this month caused by overage fees.
The overage is due to a glitch in the integration process treats the Google Voice …
Google Voice, the search giant’s very useful Internet-calling application, has just removed one large reason some people hesitate to use it.
At least, on Sprint phones.
Google and Sprint said they will soon start offering (they didn’t specify a date) …
TwoSixty Inc, an online phone management service backed by Y Combinator, announced today that it has launched TellFi.ca — a version of its virtual phone service specifically for Canada.
The phone service is a lot like Google Voice — it …
Google is expanding its testing of a long-awaited feature for Google Voice, the ability to port your current mobile number to the service, Engadget reports.
Number porting on Google Voice has been talked about for years now, but Google tells …
It’s been a long haul for Google, but now iPhone owners can finally download an official Google Voice iPhone app – giving them access to even more Google Voice features than the current web app, although still not as many …
YouMail, a startup that provides next-generation voicemail services like visual voicemail, voice-to-text transcription, and custom greetings, announced today that it has reached a new milestone with 15 million unique monthly callers.
That number represents “five percent of the U.S population’s …
A few weeks ago, third-party Google Voice apps for the iPhone started getting approved by Apple. Now it appears that we may soon see the official Google Voice app on the iPhone, sources tell TechCrunch.
Apple’s earlier refusal to approve …
Craig Walker, a co-founder of Google Voice developer GrandCentral, has left the company to join Google Ventures as entrepreneur-in-residence and begin working on his next company.
The other co-founder of Google Voice, Vincent Paquet, will take the helm and lead …
Touchring is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
It was almost two years ago that I got my hands on a G1, the first cellphone that used Google’s Android operating system. Now, a couple of hundred thousand Android phones are being activated a day.
T-Mobile hopes to reignite …
It looks like Gmail users are already taking advantage of the cheap calling that Google launched yesterday. The company announced via Twitter that there were 1 million calls placed from Gmail in 24 hours.
The feature is particularly attractive if …
