Google Voice Infiltrates the iPhone
EyeTV did it first with their live streaming your home television to your iPhone with their new web application that allows streaming of video to the Safari web browser (which means you can watch TV over 3G instead of just over wifi like Slingbox). Now Google's got it all figured out courtesy of HTML 5 and some tweaks - the power of Google Voice is now available ... read more
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc unveiled a new version of its Internet phone service on Tuesday in its latest effort to bypass Apple Inc’s gatekeepers and make Google Voice a popular service on the iPhone.
The disagreement over Google Voice comes as Google, the world’s No. 1 search engine, and Apple are increasingly encroaching into each other’s markets. Earlier this month, Google began selling the Nexus One smartphone directly to consumers, and Google is developing an operating system for PCs that could compete with Apple’s line of Mac PCs.
Google already had a version of Google Voice available through mobile Web browsers.
But Google described the new version of Google Voice as a “Web app,” noting that it is much more interactive than the previous browser-based version of the service, with the ability to listen to voice mails directly from within the browser and to dial phone numbers on an interactive on-screen keypad.
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