Google Voice, Google’s free service to help you make and receive calls, is currently open only to former GrandCentral subscribers. Soon, though, Google will make Voice more widely available. Between free U.S. calls, call filtering, multiple telephone ringing, and call transcription, Voice offers many enticing features. Google Voice is so different from traditional telephone service, though, that it can be difficult to comprehend exactly how the service works. Today we take a look at the basics of Google Voice.
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Several weeks ago, I questioned whether tech geeks were out of touch with the rest of the world. From having no "real world" friends with Twitter accounts, to having family members who could care less about the tech over which I get excited, I pondered whether we tech geeks lived in a different reality. One example of the type of tech that only tech geeks might love is Google Wave. Wave is Google’s next generation e-mail/instant messaging/collaboration/social media tool. As the Google Operating System blog explains, a "wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more." For a thorough explanation of Wave, check out Mashable’s Complete Guide to Google Wave. But is Wave something only a tech geek could love?
On Tuesday night, Google announced its new Chrome operating system, with the code due for release later this year, and netbooks that run it due in the second half of 2010. Some of the announcement is sure to be marketing speak, as Google’s announcement seems to promise the world. Or does it? Is Google able to promise what it does, because the OS itself is actually going to deliver very little?
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