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Google Apps left out of voice chat update
Google Apps for Business users are the Charlie Brown of Gmail. When gmail.com users get all the best new features, we users of Google’s private-label Gmail service peer into our Halloween bags and glumly proclaim, “I got a rock.”
Google Voice + Gmail = free calls (and Jacko cato)
Now you can call phones from within Gmail — the phones with, you know, actual numbers. And it’s free to call the U.S. and Canada (for now). Google has (finally) integrated the technologies it acquired from Grand Central and Gizmo5 — and it’s challenging Skype to a bar-room brawl. Stop callin’, stop callin’, IT Blogwatch don’t wanna talk anymore. Not to mention Jacko cato…
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Songs of (User) Experience
The first day of the UX Week 2010 conference was a whirlwind of user experience topics, from getting users to do what you want to “pizzability.”
Google reportedly adding voice calling to Gmail
Google plans to upgrade its Gmail service to allow Gmail users to dial phone numbers in the US and Canada, according to reports. If true, this would heat up competition with Skype to the boiling point.
September 1: Apple reinvents television?
Apple-watchers look to September 1 (Updated). That’s when Apple is now expected to host a special event to introduce its new products for music and television, including a 99-cent TV show rental service.
Mobile phones, mobile dangers: Protecting children with cell phones
The cell phone in all its iterations - from pre-paid to smartphones — has become common throughout the world. According to the United Nations’ telecommunications agency, the ITU, there will be over 5 billion mobile phone subscriptions by the end of this year.
Rocker raises money for first album in Second Life
Keiko Takamura, a San Francisco indie rocker, raised some of the money to record her album and built a following by playing concerts in Second Life. She uses a broad array of other social media to find listeners and sell her music.
