Every now and then our team of tech slaves, er, writers like to let off verbal steam about the latest goings on in gadget land. Want to know what’s on their minds? Join us as we round up the opinions of Electricpig’s writers on some of the week’s talking points. But which one will you furiously disagree with? None we hope. But where’s the fun in not finding out. Read on.
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To really fill a niche, Google Voice needs to provide one extra bit of crossover functionality. Right now it records up to three hours of phone calls to your Google Voice number, and it also transcribes up to a three minute long voicemail.
A Google Voice UK service is definitely on the way. Google head honcho, Eric Schmidt, has confirmed that the web phone service is headed to Britain and the mysterious Facebook-fighting social network Google Me got a mention too. Read on for a brief glimpse of the Google-tinged future to come…
A Google Voice desktop app could soon let you field your mobile calls straight from your PC, merging your mobile and computer all under one contact number. That’s according to one industry insider in Silicon Valley, so read on for the details.
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt swaggered onto the Mobile World Congress stage tonight, and with good reason. He was about to demo new speech translation tools, and new technology to let Google phones read written words with their cameras, and translate them in seconds.
We all know what’s coming tonight, but in the meantime, there’s plenty of last minute rumours to be had, plus all your usual non-Apple news. Catch up with the latest, quick, right here in techie breakie!
Google Voice, the smart web phone service that transcribes voice mails, links your phones and lets you make cheap calls is back on the iPhone. Apple may have blocked it from the App Store, but there’s no blocking a web app, especially one as essential as this.
Google and Apple have had plenty of scuffles recently – over Google Voice and Google Latitude to name just two. Google boss man Eric Schmidt is no longer on Apple’s board either. Could it be time for Google Maps to leave the iPhone? It’s looking that way.
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