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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

Amplify’d from www.reuters.com

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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Google Reader says, “Feed Me!”

"Seriously, I'll eat anything," said the four year old web based aggregator. And it's all so true. Track changes on static web pages. Custom feeds - as the article says...will be interesting. For instance - stalking that girl on Facebook? Can I add her facebook info page to my Google Reader so I can find out if she changes her status to Single? or better yet, "it... read more

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Google Reader Lets You Subscribe to Any Page on the Web

Today Google has rolled out a subtle change to Google Reader that lets you create custom feeds to track pages that don’t already have them. So you can subscribe to updates for any webpage simply by typing the URL into the “Add a subscription” text box.

Should you put the new feature to work, you’ll start to receive short snippets for any updates made to the pages, and Google asserts that it’s committed to improving the quality of these tiny blurbs over time. On the flip side, webpage owners can choose to opt out by adjusting a few lines of code.

So when might this come in handy? While most companies have their own blogs, receiving automatic notifications any time there’s an update to the homepage or product pages of a business of interest could prove to be vital. For example, with Apple releasing a “new product” and potentially news about the iPhone on Wednesday, you bet that I’m going to create some custom feeds.

Read more at mashable.com