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Google has announced that 10 million gmail voice calls have been made to date, and they are offering up some tips for how to make better use of the system. The features they are highlighting are: Call Screening – Caller is sent to voicemail and you can listen in. Switching Calls – Receive a call [...]

The @googlevoice twitter has announced that the gmail voice plugin was used to make over 1 million voice calls in its first 24 hours. And this wasn’t even a feature that all gmail users could use. W0w.

Google has is now testing a voice call plugin in gmail that allows you to make phone calls to regular numbers for free in Canada and the US using your computer. This is a separate service from Google Voice, as you do not get a call-in number assigned to you, but if you have a [...]

I’m a bit late on this one, but thought I would post it for completeness. The Boy Genius Report posted a story on a desktop app for Google Voice, and TechCrunch posted a video of it in operation. Branded as Gizmo5 by Google, the application ran on OSX, and allowed full Google Voice functionality, even [...]

Good news! No more invites needed! According to the google voice blog, you can head on over to the google voice site to sign up for the service – no more waiting for invites to come, or hunting around for them on the internet. It’s still only open to those in the US, so check [...]

Has google finally closed the 403 area code loophole that has allowed some Canadians to forward google voice calls to their local Canadian numbers? From the comments on the Howto: Google Voice In Canada post: Is anyone else having similar issues? Update: Maybe it isn’t an issue. I just logged in to my google voice [...]

If you’re a student with a .edu email address handy and you want a google voice invite, you’re in luck. The google voice blog has just announced that it is giving away priority invites to students if they can provide a .edu email address during sign up. Go to the site, put your .edu email [...]

Check out this pcworld article on how to make Skype Out calls and have your google voice number show up on the other person’s caller ID. First, you’ll need a Skype account, of course. That’s free. Then you need to download and install the Skype software. Next, go to the Skype Features page, and sign up [...]

Probably tired of waiting around for Apple to decide whether it will ever approve a Google Voice app for the iPhone, Google decided to do a bit of an end-around on the app store by releasing a very nice html5 web app which will work on the iPhone and the Palm Pre/Pixi. The app is [...]

“Good news everyone! Several years ago I tried to log on to AOL, and it just went through! Wheee! We’re online!” ―Farnsworth Okay not really, but it must feel this way to Sean Kovacs, the developer of the iPhone app GV Mobile, a pretty slick Google Voice interface for the iPhone. If you happened to [...]