Last week, Google unintentionally revealed that its Google Voice service has over 1.4 million registered users, 570,000 of them using it seven days a week.
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More Features, Less Filling: Google Voice “Light” Debuts
Today Google takes a page out of the wireless carrier playbook by using a combination of call forwarding to voice mail in conjunction with SMS to offer a “light” version of Google voice. The result, as dramatized in this video, is something akin to visual voicemail on the iPhone combined with the voicemail-to-text feature of the full-featured Google Voice service.
Orwellian Aspects to the App Store Strategy
When Apple purged the App Store of all things Google Voice, it revealed about itself what “deKindling” the unauthorized version of Orwell’s “1984” did for Amazon.com.
Rethinking Google Voice on Android and Blackberrys
The availability of Google Voice features on smartphones illustrates why number portability may not be as important as previously thought.
NYTimes Column Highlights Google Voice’s Transcription Shortcomings
A recent column in the New York Times’ Technology section highlights the shortcomings of Google Voice’s voicemail transcription service. This is a necessary step in expectation setting among potential users.
Another “Soft Launch” for Google Voice
Google is expanding the reach of Google Voice by activating more accounts. The “soft launch” strategy is a way of letting the marketplace pick winners.
Growth Scenarios for Google Voice
Google is poised to broaden the reach of its Google Voice service beyond the original GrandCentral subscriber base. With 1 million phone numbers in reserve with Level 3, it’s time to take stock of Google’s options as a Web-based, virtual voice network operator.
Cast A Vote to Port your Phone Number to Google Voice
You may be able to signal to Google that you’d like them to accelerate the introduction of BYON to Google Voice by casting a vote here. We’ll monitor developments as the service is refined in the coming months.