Google Voice service blocks fewer than 100 numbers

Google Inc. said late Wednesday that its free messaging and calling service, Google Voice, blocks calls to fewer than 100 specific phone numbers likely to be adult chat lines and free conference call services.

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Google expands availability of its free voice mail

Google Inc. wants to answer your mobile phone calls when you can't or just don't want to talk.

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FCC launches probe of Google Voice service

Federal regulators will look into complaints by AT&T Inc. that Google Inc.'s free messaging and calling service, Google Voice, blocks calls to rural communities where local phone companies charge high connection fees.

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AT&T complains Google Voice blocks calls it can't

AT&T Inc. said Friday that Google Inc.'s Internet phone program gets an unfair advantage from blocking calls to rural communities where local carriers charge high connection fees.

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Review: Google Voice has cool tricks but downsides

Google Inc. gives away a lot of good stuff for free.

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Speech-to-text the new touch for cell phones?

"DWD" — driving while distracted — by text messages, e-mails and phone calls is epidemic.  Speech recognition software may play a role in reducing — but not solving — the problem.

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Apple denies 'rejecting' Google Voice for iPhone

Apple Inc. told federal regulators Friday that it blocked the Google Voice program from running on the iPhone because it alters important functions on the device — yet Apple denied that it has rejected Google's application outright.

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Cronkite's voice will still introduce CBS newscast

CBS says the voice of Walter Cronkite will continue to be heard announcing the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric."

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Don’t call Susan Boyle ‘pitchy’!

She's an Internet sensation, with nearly 70 million YouTube views of her TV debut. Susan Boyle, a frumpy, unemployed, self-confessedly virginal 47-year-old Scots singer, has been acclaimed as a singing wonder since her April 11 audition for the U.K. show “Britain's Got Talent.”

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Has love found ‘never been kissed’ singer?

In less than a week, it seems every detail of overnight singing sensation Susan Boyle’s life has been trumpeted by the media with just as much volume as her powerful voice. But there’s one detail she’s not quite willing to part with: her formerly nonexistent love life.

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‘Never been kissed’ singer, 47, wows Cowell

Simon Cowell sneered and the huge audience at the “Britain’s Got Talent” show made the sort of faces associated with a bad smell. The object of their disaffection was contestant No. 43212, a plain, middle-aged woman from Scotland with bushy eyebrows and a dress and hairdo that might have been stylish when Dwight Eisenhower was president.

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Google preparing to steer more telephone traffic

Internet search leader Google Inc. is preparing to steer more telephone traffic through an online command center that it acquired nearly two years ago.

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5Top: Singers who wouldn’t have made it on ‘Idol’

Plenty of other iconic singer/songwriters would have problems convincing the judges to advance them far enough to reach the voting rounds. Bob Dylan is an obvious example, of course, along with Tom Waits, Neil Young, Elvis Costello and probably even Billy Joel and Carole King. But Diamond stands out by virtue of two facts. One, he managed (against all odds, really) to transform himself in the 1970s into an honest-to-goodness sex-symbol pop star. And two, last season featured an episode devoted to his songs, with the man himself serving as a mentor. Obviously, “Idol” thinks that he’s got something to teach the contestants about singing, which is surprising considering the strained baritone that Diamond seems like he’s pushing out of his stomach rather than his chest. It’s gotten him exceptionally far in his career. On “Idol,” it wouldn’t take him past the audition round.

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Movie dubber dies, was `voice' of Woody Allen

Oreste Lionello, an entertainer and film dubber who was Italy's "voice" of Woody Allen, Jerry Lewis and other comic stars, died in a Rome hospital Thursday.

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How to be a disagreeable (but likable) robot

“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”

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A rare Tibetan critic sues China's government

The poet Woeser has long been a rarity — a Tibetan living in China who doesn't flinch from publicly criticizing the Chinese government. Now the activist is taking another unusual step.

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Earlier diagnosis giving Alzheimer's a new voice

Don Hayen has a handy way of deflecting the instant pity that comes when he reveals his Alzheimer's disease: "But I haven't lost my keys all day," he quickly jokes. Hayen is part of a growing new movement in Alzheimer's: Patients diagnosed early enough to still be articulate and demand better care and better research.

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Verizon Recovers Man's Missing Recording

An 80-year-old man can hear his late wife's voice again, any time he wants. Verizon has recovered a lost message recorded by Charles Whiting's wife, Catherine, before her death in 2005.

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Phone Company Retrieves Voice From Past

An 80-year-old man can hear his late wife's voice again, any time he wants.

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Analysis: Clinton Finds Her Voice

Rescued from political free-fall, Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has finally found her voice.

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Jessica Simpson Sings, but Voice Cracks

Jessica Simpson sang for the first time since busting a blood vessel in her vocal cord and made it through one song before her voice cracked.

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Check out the short to the point video of Carl Cameron of Faux No News commenting on Palins book in which he states that it "largely steer clear of politics and policies" Unlike the whacko Limbaugh who's pushing his bull again stating that it's "one of the most substantial policy …

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Ribbit just announced the launch of Ribbit Mobile. Ribbit Mobile is a cloud-based VoIP telephony service that brings together web-based calling, smart call routing and voicemail transcriptions.

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Humans may owe the gift of gab to a newly discovered gene that helps keeps vocal pipes limber.

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Mobile phone users who love their phone number but still want the cool features of Google Voice — including computer translations of voicemail messages — will get their wish Tuesday, as Google announces a light version of its innovative phone service (and a new feature for fu …

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Great post that outlines serious security, privacy, ethical and technical problems with Skype and lists alternatives. "Concentrating a lot of power in one single uncontrolled entity always leads to abuse of those powers, and Skype is not an exception.

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Marie Therese

I remember when you would cry beside me. I still remember how you would let go with me. Not once did I shed tears with you, and yet you could be impetuous or wounded, or impish without reservation with me. Not that I mind, for you compel me still, like the moon in the blues …

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Can History Ever Really Be Our Teacher?

For me, it's most certainly 'No'.

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Earlier this month, Apple rejected an application for the iPhone called Google Voice.

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Porting my phone number to Google Voice was a three day process, which I was pre-warned about. The mobile carriers in the U.S. have made the porting process between them fairly easy, and it occurs over a couple of hours.

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"Google is building a Web browser-based application for Google Voice to run on Apple's iPhone. The app will be an alternative to the original Google Voice app iPhone rejected, allegedly for duplicating iPhone features.

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Over the last few weeks, Google Voice has finally begun sending out invites to the throngs of people who have signed up since the service stopped accepting new users in 2007, following its acquisition.

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The rules changed all the time—sometimes day to day, sometimes hour to hour—and whenever he tried to recite them, people thought, "This guy is nuts."

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"President Barack Obama Spoke Very Strong Voice On Iran Election."

I feel sorry that our President Obama used very strong words in Iranian Election.

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7 Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover

Revolving door recruitment, where staff come in eagerly and leave rather fast, disappointed and disillusioned, is plaguing a lot of businesses and is often a chronic factor in their demise.

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Are the Ayatollahs learning that hell hath no fury like 34 million women scorned, forced out of the workplace, harassed and humiliated by religious police for three decades? I have noticed some of the bravest protestors in Iran have been women, including a few who have been with …

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Songs have the power to move us in mysterious ways. Why is that? Because music with words provides a missing link between reason and emotion. Singing takes language and pulls the most possible feeling out of it.

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The Amazon Kindle, an electronic reader, has been lavished with praise by hopeful newspaper and book executives who say they believe it has the potential to do for newspapers and books what the iPod did for music.

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Comparing the impact made by Susan Boyle's performance to a shooting star on a desolate night.

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Crime And Poverty

If world governments eliminate poverty then there would be no need for crime? Crime and poverty works hand in hands. As long as the social mobility of a nation or person stays stagnant we're going to have poverty and crime.

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Susan Boyle can definitely sing--an understatement! But what if she couldn't? Are you the fan/admirer/friend of one or more Susan Boyles minus the tremendous voice? Why or why not?

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British doctors are debating whether it is ethical to start clinical trials to allow voice box transplantation. The task force has been set up as developments in stem cell technology make the development a possibility.

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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- Police in south Brevard County believe they've ended a crime spree. They arrested two men Tuesday accused of robbing eight businesses at gunpoint. It was one man's glazed-over eye and the voice of another that ultimately led to their capture.

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Ann Coulter almost got punched in the face on the View!

While eating lunch I was watching the View, a television show that makes you think about things from five different peoples point of view. I think all the ladies on the View are very intelligent and honest. I had never really heard of Ann Coulter.

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Keith Olbermann's Porn Segment

Keith Olbermann's interview with a Village Voice columnist about Larry Flint's proposal for a congressional bailout of the porn industry is probably going to generate a lot of complaints to MSNBC. It should.

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Excerpt: The BBC has tonight (December 31st) denied pulling an interview in which Sir Paul McCartney apparently made "unsuitable" comments about Michael Jackson.

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