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Google has extended their trial of Gmail Voice through the remainder of 2011. Launched back in August 2010, gmail voice is an extension to gmail which allows users to call standard telephone numbers in Canada and the USA directly from gmail for free. Calls to other countries can be made for low rates. It achieved remarkable early [...]

The official Google Voice app for iOS is finally on iTunes. The techcrunch story has a lot of the details on the history of the app, but, briefly, it has been a long time in coming. Apple approved, then removed a third-party app called GV Mobile, which was essentially a Google Voice front-end, saying that [...]

TechCrunch is announcing that the official Google branded Google Voice app has been approved on the Apple App Store and we should see it in the next few weeks, pending some updates to enable some iOS4 features. They claim that there is no official word yet, just rumours that the app has been approved by [...]

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 [...]

The CBC is carrying a story about a consortium of 24 international wireless carriers including giants AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, and Telefonica who have joined forces with hardware manufacturers Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson to provide an app store which will be ubiquitous across all carriers and platforms. Wind Mobile is Canada’s only participant. [...]

A big thanks to reader @ianmurchison for this tip. It seems as though the integration of gizmo5 into Google Voice is steadily progressing, taking one more step last week. The gizmo5.com domain was transferred to google on 18 January 2010, and now gizmo5.com redirects to google.com/gizmo5. Gizmo5 was a VOIP company which provided both software [...]

@windmobile twitter account: via @WIND_Chris Lots of interest in #NexusOne: Works on AWS, we’re chatting with them, confirming config works with WIND, more to come… A few days ago I wrote how the Google Nexus One may be coming to Wind Mobile and now it seems we have some confirmation from Wind themselves that they [...]

Nexus One tech specs: Cellular & Wireless UMTS Band 1/4/8 (2100/AWS/900) HSDPA 7.2Mbps HSUPA 2Mbps GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR A2DP stereo Bluetooth