Google has launched a new feature in Gmail labs that allows you to play Google Voice voicemails right from Gmail. Before, when Google Voice users received email notifications from Google Voice, they had to click a link in the message to open a new page.
Google Voice Merges Text Messages, Email
Google Voice, with its "one number for all your calls and SMS" tagline and almost endless list of benefits, aims to make users’ lives easier. A new feature introduced today represents another step in that direction.
Suppose you’re sitting at a desk with a full-sized keyboard at your fingertips and a 20" monitor in front of your eyes. Most services would still ask you to fish out your little cell phone in order to read and reply to a text message. In the past, even Google Voice would require you to keep open an extra, dedicated tab.
Google Helps Kids Get Messages to Next President
Google (specifically Google Docs) has teamed up with the National Writing Project to sponsor a program that lets students around the U.S. write letters to the presidential candidates in a program appropriately titled: Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future.
Bebo To Beam Users’ Messages Into Space
Now might be a good time to brush up on your foil hat-making and bomb shelter-building skills. On October 9th, a signal containing messages from 500 Bebo users will be beamed towards another planet with the goal of contacting intelligent life.
EFF Wants Horvath, Google Messages
Former Justice Department chief privacy officer Jane Horvath once criticized the government subpoena in Gonzales v Google; she joined Google’s legal team last August.
Brits Type 1.2 Billion Text Messages Per Week
In all of 1999, Brits sent one billion text messages on their mobile phones. Now, according to new numbers from the Mobile Data Association (MDA), they’re sending more than that per week.
EU Wants Price Caps On Text Messages
The European Commission is lobbying mobile phone operators to discount their rates for text messages and is threatening to put price caps in place if they don’t comply. Recently price caps were put in place for roaming charges.
Facebook Messages Make Move On Email
I thought Google had won a major victory as its Apps Education Edition was embraced by more and more colleges. But, at least as far as Gmail is concerned, Facebook appears to have trumped that move – the social network’s messages can now act as emails.
Private Messages May Not Stay Private
As the name implies, private messages are supposed to be private. As legal system might imply, they may not always stay that way.
Computer Messages May Not Be Private
Instant Messages and Digg Spam
Have you ever submitted a story to a social site like Digg and then messaged a few of your friends through AIM and told them to vote for it? There is nothing wrong with this but they probably know what you are up to, here’s why.
Usually when users vote on stories, they go to the homepage of a site such as digg.com, roam around, and then vote on stories they like. But when you spam your AIM buddy list and get people to click on a direct link to a Digg story URL it shows up in Digg’s logs that they came directly to that URL.