Google is to add SIP to Google Voice to give its customers a proper Voice over IP number and integrate with other VoIP services.
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While Gmail phone calls have been around for a while and Google Voice has just hit the US iTunes apps store, Google has quietly slipped out a new feature: Gmail phone call recording. Not everyone appears to have it yet but a new recording button has popped up for lots of Gmail phone call users.
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Nothing starts the day off right like a little bit of freshly squeezed news from across the pond. In today’s US update we take a look at some of the top breaking stories happening this morning that you wouldn’t want to miss.
The Google Voice Application battle with Apple’s App Store has come to a close. You can now download the official client, coded by the keyboard wizards from Mountain View, for your iOS devices free today.
An iPad VLC player app has been approved! The move makes it much easier to get videos from sources other than iTunes (whatever they might be *cough*) onto your iPad. It looks like Apple’s new, slightly more reasonable approach to policing the iTunes App Store is taking effect…
Apple has been keeping Google Voice out of the iTunes App Store (though it denies that it’s explicitly banned it) and canned third-party apps using Google Voice tech. But that looks like it could be coming to an end. After the new Apple developer guidelines were outed yesterday, a developer behind a Google Voice-packing app got news from Apple that his creation could be on its way back onto the App Store’s virtual shelves. Is Apple about to give Google Voice apps the go ahead?
Gmail phone calls have got off to a flying start. Over 1 million were placed in the first 24 hours by users eager to try out the free service. What we don’t know is how many of the folk nattering were from outside the US…
Google’s push into voice calling gets another prop today, as we get news that Google will be installing Google Voice phone boxes in universities and airports. The booths are part of an effort on the part of Google to get people used to using Google Voice, and also to prove the quality of Google Voice calls. From the phone booths, you’ll be able to make domestic and international calls completely for free. The Google Voice phone boxes will be mocked up to look like our own red telephone boxes, and will be appearing from next week.
[via TechCrunch]