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Google Adds Voice Communication

Google is ready to get serious about voice communication. Adding tons of new functionality with voice communication so you can have your voice mail transcribed, sent to you via SMS, or left in you mailbox online. There are endless possibilities while having this kind of technology.
This voice addition is a great partner to [...]

GrandCentral Announces First Google Product Migration

Blogger is announcing the first integration of recently acquired GrandCentral.

With this integration, Blogger will let bloggers place a “call me” button on their page. The next question will be, how many bloggers will want their visitors to be able to call them up? I, for one, would be perfectly fine with it. [...]

Google to Provide Free Communication for those in Need

Through Google’s acquisition early last month, they are making huge strides to offer new and free service through GrandCentral.
Here is a small excerpt about what Google has to say about the project,
For homeless people and others in need, not having a stable phone number can be crippling: you need one to follow up on medical appointments, keep in touch with friends and loved ones, and hear back from prospective employers.
When we acquired GrandCentral Communications last month, we were pleased to embrace their Project CARE initiative, which provides a permanent local phone number and unlimited voicemail service to people who need a way to stay connected.
GrandCentral has been operating Project CARE (”Communications and Respect for Everybody”) since April 2006, and with the help of more than 20 community outreach partners has provided more than 5,000 phone numbers and served close to 100,000 voicemail messages to homeless and needy people in the Bay Area. Someone calling a number from Project CARE will have the same experience as someone calling a standard phone number, and voicemail messages can be stored as long as they’re needed.