Google Voice just became much easier to use for Blackberry and Android owners as a new mobile app has been released.
Will you be downloading the new Google Voice app for Blackberry or Android. Tell us.
Google's Android represented a big step in the mobile market; it's meant to run on the newest devices and keep up with the best competing operating systems. Yet $400 smartphones aren't really all that affordable, and so for people in Africa, Google SMS has been introduced.
Facebook is now offering its users the ability to receive their friends' status updates via text message on their phones. If you click on the "subscribe via SMS" link below your friends' profile pics, you get their latest updates this way.
Canadian Twitterers using Rogers or Fido can now update to the service and receive updates using SMS. Tweets are treated as standard messages by these services, so there are no extra charges according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.
There is always plenty to discuss about Facebook as the site continues to grow rapidly. However, there are a few items of interest floating around the blogosphere currently that I wanted to highlight here.
Google has launched a preview of Google Voice, which is an application that lets you manage voice communications by converting voicemails to text. Google Voice is the new version of GrandCentral, which Google acquired back in 2007. For now, GrandCentral users are the only ones that get Google Voice.
I think perhaps in all times of technological, societal flux elders immediately worry about the skills and capabilities of the generations that follow. But I think the opposite happens: technology makes us better by stretching our capacities.
If you live in the US and are a user of Gmail's chat service then you now have access to a pretty cool feature which allows you to send text messages right through the chat window!We're just trying it out for cell phones in the United States right now, but you can send texts to your friends with US phone numbers from anywhere in the world.
Gmail has introduced a new Labs feature that allows users to send SMS text messaages to their contacts directly from Gmail. This will help stay in touch with people you have been chatting with in Gmail if they are away from their computer. To utilize this feature: 1. Click on Settings 2. Got to the Labs tab 3. Scroll down until you see "Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat" 4. Select Enable 5. Save Changes
I wasn’t going to give Twitter’s "we’re stopping SMS text messages in most countries" announcement much real estate today, then a single comment gave me pause for thought. First, the background:
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