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AT&T Messages will make your conversations cross-platform

With the opening of the Palo Alto AT&T Foundry the carrier is showing off an idea that could make conversations easier. The app is called AT&T Messages, and it will put all of your conversations into the cloud so you can access them from anywhere. AT&T Messages will hook into your primary phone number to more »

Why it’s now awesome to be a Sprint customer

Boom. All of a sudden Google Voice just became a big deal after getting Sprint to come aboard. As of today, Sprint customers can make their number a Google Voice number. Just like that, Sprint customers can choose to ring any number of phones when someone calls their number, they can choose to have transcripted more »

Google brings Google Voice to your existing number, but it comes with a catch

Google has just kind of, sort of followed up on an earlier promise and at the same time dealt another potential blow to some of the wireless carriers. That announcement, Google will now allow users to use their existing number with Google Voice. Of course, like I mentioned in the title, this does come with more »

Spoken teams with Microsoft to offer transcribed text voicemail service

The company Spoken has announced its plans to team with Microsoft in order to offer audio to text transcriptions of voicemails. This service will be offered to enterprise customers and will come as an enhanced option on the new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. The service is called GotVoice and will automatically convert your audio voicemails more »

AT&T Visual Voicemail for the Blackberry Bold once again available

We saw the Visual Voicemail update get released and then pulled. A short while later, the good news is that Visual Voicemail is once again available for those using an AT&T branded Blackberry Bold. The visual voicemail is coming as part of the latest software update which Bold users can get by going to Options more »

New Google Labs feature allows for playback of Google Voice messages in Gmail

In an effort to further give myself over to Google and make myself that much more dependent on Gmail, there has recently been a new feature released in the labs that should keep me (and other Google Voice users) locked in Gmail a little longer. That new feature goes along with the SMS to email more »

AT&T pulls the visual voicemail update for the BlackBerry Bold

Are you a BlackBerry Bold user? Still have not performed the last update that would have given you visual voicemail? Well, it is a little late to worry now because AT&T has gone ahead and pulled that update. Of course, due to the reasoning behind the removal you may not be all that upset that more »

AT&T now offering visual voicemail on the BlackBerry Bold

Good news for BlackBerry Bold users has recently come in the form of an AT&T update — they are now offering Visual Voicemail and it will come with no extra charges. Now BlackBerry Bold users will be able to easily find and listen to the important voicemails without having to sit through a bunch of more »

Who’s on Crack in Tech: 07.31.09

Whoa! This week was filled with enough hints the tech world has given up on sobriety altogether. This week saw far too much insanity for one column, so here are my favorites: David Pogue hates voicemail. Palm Pre ads hurting sales? Google Voice gets everyone riled up. NuviPhone finally where?

Google Voice getting closer to launch, Google secures one million phone numbers

It does look like Google has recently taken a step that makes it appear as if they are preparing to launch Google Voice sooner than later. Google has recently grabbed one million phone numbers with Level 3, which for those unfamiliar, Level 3 is the service Google has already been using with Google Voice. Unfortunately more »