UPDATE: Google has responded by pointing out AT&T’s hypocrisy here.
The FCC is now going to officially investigate complaints by AT&T that Google Voice blocks calls to rural communities where local phone companies often charge higher connection fees.
Investigators sent a letter to Google on Friday requesting more information about Google Voice, which allows users to sign [...]

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In what is bound to be an epic move by Google, the company has circumvented Apple and AT&T’s rejection of its Google Voice iPhone app by reinventing it as a web-based application.
Google is preparing a new version of the Google Voice app that will have the exact same features as the rejected [...]

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Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt has just stepped down from Apple’s Board of Directors, a role that many claimed created conflicts of interest as both Apple and Google compete with each other in several market sectors.
Specifically, Google’s Android phone is in direct competition with Apple’s iPhone.  Also, the soon-to-be-released Chrome OS will [...]

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Proving that AT&T is not the supreme dictator that it wants to be, the Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into AT&T’s fail, er, rejection of Google’s voice application for the Apple  iPhone.
On Friday, the FCC sent letters to AT&T, Apple, and Google asking why AT&T rejected the Google Voice app for the [...]

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Google is getting set to launch Google Voice, a service built with technology obtained through its 2007 acquisition of GrandCentral. The Google Voice service will give you one phone number that can route calls to your existing phones.
Google Voice will have its own voicemail that can be accessed from any phone or through a browser, [...]

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As of today, current GrandCentral customers will be the first ones selected to test the brand-new Google Voice service.  Lucky bastards.
There are tons of new features being introduced, but the most anticipated might be Voicemail Transcripts.
Previously, you could have all of your voicemail messages e-mailed to you as audio files and then play them right [...]

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