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Google Voice Desktop App

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 [...]

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Google Voice Opens to All (US)

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 [...]

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Google Voice 403 Loophole Closed?

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 [...]

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Google Voice Priority Invites For Students

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 [...]

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Skype, Google Voice Get Unified Caller ID

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 [...]

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Google Voice Comes to iPhone Via Web – Screenshots

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 [...]

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GV Mobile To Re-Appear In The App Store

“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 [...]

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Google Voice – Gizmo5 Transition Complete?

As noted in the comments of the How-to: Google Voice in Canada post, and further explored in the Google Voice Charging For Calls To Canada post, calls to Canada through google voice seem to now cost $0.02 per minute instead of being free. Astute reader @ianmurchison noticed something interesting: It has been known for a [...]

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Google Voice Charging For Calls In Canada

For some time now, google voice has allowed free calls to Canada in addition to free calling within the US. It seems however that this is not working correctly, at least for calls originating in Canada.

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GV Mobile / MaRussia as a Google Voice Replacement

Sean Kovacs, the developer of the previously-on-the-app-store GV Mobile, has been hard at work lately on a new project. After developing GV Mobile, an app for the iPhone which allows near seamless integration and access to google voice, Sean became one of the growing number of developers to become intimately familiar with Apple’s less than [...]

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