Tag: GRANDCENTRAL

When GrandCentral evolved into Google Voice, it was only a matter of time before the old GrandCentral website went to the big page archive in the sky. Google's killing off the old, redundant site on December 31st, 2009. Why the heck is this news? After all, GrandCentral users can all upgrade to Google Voice. Well, it turns out that GrandCentral's website has something that Google Voice doesn't: ...

A few days ago there was a nasty rumor going around that Google had just purchased Skype competitor Gizmo5. Funny thing about rumors is that sometimes they're true. Like, for instance, this one. Gizmo5 offers a variety of tools that let users make cheap calls from a PC to a phone, or free calls from computer to computer. Google says that Gizmo5's engineers will be joining the Google Voice ...

Before there was Google Voice, there was GrandCentral. In 2007 Google acquired the internet telephony service that lets you ring all your phones from a single number, record calls, and set caller permissions. Eventually Google relaunched the service as Google Voice and added nifty new features like automatic voicemail transcription. But if you preferred the old interface you didn't have to ...

Google is beginning to send out invites to people who signed up to try Google Voice. The service is still in private beta, but this is the first time new users will be able to gain access to the service since Google purchased the technology from GrandCentral. Up until now, only former GrandCentral users have been able to use Google Voice. Google Voice allows users to route all of their phone ...

Google Voice, or the service formerly known as GrandCentral, assigns users a single phone number that you can give out to friends, colleagues, enemies, or just about anybody else. You can then link that number to your existing phone lines so that when a user calls it will ring your home, work, and/or cellphone. You can set permissions so that calls from some numbers will always go straight to ...

Nearly two years after acquiring "one telephone for life" service GrandCentral, Google is finally preparing to relaunch the service with new features. GrandCentral has been in private beta for the last two years. Over the next few days Google will be prompting existing beta users to upgrade to Google Voice before rolling out the service to new users in a few weeks. GrandCentral lets you set up a ...

Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition: Google SearchWiki lets you customize results Google adds new features to BlackBerrys and iPhones LIFE Magazine's photo archive comes online GrandCentral App comes to Mac Google plans to work with OEMs to pre-install Chrome Access Google Docs within Gmail ...

Internet telephony company GrandCentral was down for several hours this morning. That wouldn't be so bad if GrandCentral's business model didn't depend on telling users to give out their GrandCentral phone numbers instead of their cellphone, work, home, and other numbers. GrandCentral, which is owned by Google, provides a single number that can ring through to each of your phones. And most of ...

Looking for an invite to Google's GrandCentral? The service has been in private beta since Google bought internet telephony company last year. While the private beta label hasn't exactly come off just yet, Google is making it a lot easier for anyone who wants a GrandCentral account to sign up for one. Today Google posted a little note on Blogger Buzz letting users of the company's Blogger service ...

Startup Ribbit is preparing to launch in impressive looking internet telephony service in a few months. The company's Amphibian phone service provides a ton of features, but in a nutshell you could describe Amphibian as a cross between Google's GrandCentral and Skype with a few extra bits thrown in like an open developer platform and some social networking features. Here's how it works. You can ...

It's been about a year since Google acquired Wiki/page creation/collaboration/calendar/etc site JotSpot. And for most of that year, there's been a message at JotSpot.com saying that you can't sign up for a new account because Google is still integrating the service. Blogger Andrew Miller reports that Google may be preparing to launch some new JotSpot-based services starting next year. Miller ...

All of the applications that having been coming out online are great and all, but what happens when we rely too heavily on them before they have standards set in place. Users are left in an interesting place with Web2.0. We sometimes rely to heavily on applications that are still in beta test modes, and on applications that have yet to iron out many operational details. This is extremely evident ...

My, how time flies. It seems like just last week we were telling you that Google was going to purchase internet telephone company GrandCentral. And now... they have. What's GrandCentral? It's a service that lets you receive calls from all your phone numbers on a single phone. You can also combine all of your voice mailboxes into one simple account which you can access over the phone or on the web. ...

TechCrunch is reporting that Google will acquire GrandCentral (or already has). GrandCentral's tag line is "one phone number for life." Basically, the service provides you with a single phone number that can be linked to every other phone in your life, including home, work, mobile, you name it. When you get a call on your single number, you can pick up any phone to answer. All of your voicemail ...

If you dread the evening onslaught of telemarketer calls as well as the monotone response of "please take me off your call list," (on a good day -- we can't print what we say on a bad day -- ), a much welcome and highly rated phone service is here to help. Grand Central puts you back in charge of all your phones, (work, home, mobile, etc.) as well as all those pesky phone messages. First you ...