While perusing CNN.com recently, I saw a list of “America’s Biggest Rip-Offs“. Number one on the list is text messaging (or SMS for those outside the U.S.). The markup collected by mobile carriers such as Verizon and AT&T, according to CNN, is 6500%. While that sounds like a huge number, it’s true. Here in the…
I have been a huge fan of Google Voice for years. I’m so old school on Google Voice. In fact, back when first I came to know the service, it was known as GrandCentral and was something new by these two guys Vincent and Craig. Google Voice is a revolutionary VoIP service that allows you…
Garett Rogers of ZDNet posted recently that Google’s Andoid is shedding its allure with developers and therefore won’t be as attractive as an mobile application platform. In turn, Rogers argues, Android-powered phones won’t be as competitive as the newly released iPhone 3G. My reply is “wait a minute!”. Why? Mainly because Android hasn’t appeared tangibly…
I’ve been a long time user of and advocate for GrandCentral, an amazing service that was acquired by Google last year. Since the acquisition, crickets have been chirping when it comes to GrandCentral talking, blogging, or releasing any new features. Well they’re at least blogging again. The latest is that they are allowing a forwarding…
My blog buddy Jonathan posted a blog post of how to get your GSM phone to forward voicemail traffic over to GrandCentral. I’ve been longing for this feature for quite some time so the topic grabbed my interest. My trouble is, I can’t get the GSM code which is *61*yournumber# , to work on my…
This is a follow-up to an earlier post. Read it for yourself on Google’s Blog – they’ve swallowed GrandCentral. Looks like google will have even more of my data now.
This is huge (and great) news! According to Mike Arrington at TechCrunch, Google has acquired Grandcentral, a service I’ve discussed many times before. This would be a big development in the VoIP world, in my opinion. Grandcentral has a great offering and it will complement Google’s other efforts including gmail, gtalk, and VoIP very well….
In this blog post, Grandcentral talks about how they have added ways to call out and have your Grandcentral number show up as the originating CallerID. This is a feature I’m very excited about, but I don’t like their methods so far which include: 1) calling out by clicking a button, which requires being signed…
David Pogue, of the NY Times gave Grandcentral some great press….it’s good to see to good things happening to a good company 🙂 Article Link Check out the video David did – hilarious! Technorati Tags: grandcentral, voip
There are so many things that excite me in the tech world, but currently my spotlight is on: OpenID – I’m so anxious for some of the big boys to start adopting this single sign-on system. Digg just announced their support of it. Welcome to the club 🙂 GrandCentral – this disruptive technology essentially takes…