Google Voice has gone to the next level. Google is now in direct competition with Skype, allowing users to make phone calls from within Gmail to landlines or cellphones. It seems the company is looking to create as deep a relationship as possible with users, now allowing them to have one source for sending text [...]

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The social instant messaging client Digsby seems to be all things to all people.  You can use it to connect to AIM, you can use it to connect to Gtalk, you can even use it to log onto Gmail, Facebook and Twitter with Digsby…it even supports Facebook Chat. In addition, the company recently fixed its [...]

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Google has just released two interesting new applications for Google Latitude. Google Latitude debuted back in February via Google Mobile Maps and lets you share your location with friends and family members.  Now, these two new applications will let you share your location with everyone else as well, if you so desire. Google Talk location [...]

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More tough luck for Google.  Following a Gmail outage this morning, Google Talk is now being targeted by a phishing scam that is spreading quickly. The scam begins when you receive an IM from someone you probably haven’t spoken with in a while with typical phishing jargon (“hey, check this out!”) along with a hyperlink [...]

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Image via Wikipedia Is it just me or is this whole “information age” thing getting way out of hand?  Google Trends is already keeping track of what the world is searching for and we broadcast every little detail of our lives though Twitter (“washing my dog” – hey, that’s great, thanks for sharing!). At times, [...]

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Image via CrunchBase With today’s multi-tasking madness, any additional steps that you can shave off of your routine will come in handy. Google to the rescue. You can now embed YouTube and Google Video clips right into your Gmail and Google Talk screen. If you receive (or send) a link to a video in a [...]

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