Google Voice

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

GotVoice: Managing voicemail for your home and cellular phones...

GotVoice retrieves voice messages from your existing home and cellular phones and delivers them directly to your email inbox either automatically, using a pre-chosen schedule, or manually with a simple click of a button. And best of all, it's a free service.

As of this writing, their coverage include the followings:

Cellular : AT&T Wireless, Boost Mobile (BETA), Cingular, Nextel, Sprint PCS, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and Virgin-Mobile

Home : AT&T Residential, Bell South, Hawaiian Telcom, Oceanic Digital, Qwest Residential, RCN, SBC Residential, and Verizon Residential

VOIP : Vonage (BETA)
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Google Video now showing movie trailer...

Google added a section, Google Video Movie Previews, where you can see all the available trailers on one page. And yes, you can embed some of these trailers in your blog. Now, Google just needs to improve the video quality of these trailers.

Here's a clip of Charlotte's Web coming this December.




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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Confidential project in the social application space...

From : Niniane Wang resume

"11/2005 - present, Tech lead, confidential project

Envisioned and chartered a confidential project in the social application space. Spec'ed out vision and got buy-in from execs.
Led a team of engineers through technical design and implementation of client (C++) and server (Java).
Convinced artists, PM, UI designer, and engineers around the company to join the team or contribute 20% time."

So what is this confidential project? Google Notebook? Google OS?

Google officially releases Picasa for Linux...

Google has officially released an alpha version of the popular Picasa image management application for the Linux platform. Rather than porting the application so that it can run natively on Linux, Google decided to leverage Wine, an open source implementation of the Windows API that enables Windows applications to be deployed and run on Linux systems.

Picasa for Linux

GooglePal???

More news coming out about Google’s expansion into Paypal’s domain. An interesting blog article surfaced from ArsTechnica this afternoon, and I’m sure we’ll be reading much more about this in the future.

GooglePal

Google aims to take over your TV screen...

GOOGLE is planning a new ­version of its search engine – designed for TV screens – that the company’s co-founder and its chief executive believe will rival traditional broadcasting.

Chief executive Eric Schmidt told The Business: “At the most people currently have access to only around 500 television channels,” said Schmidt. “They should have access to everything – that is where we are heading.”

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