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Gmail Phone Feature Goes International & Crosses 1 Million Calls

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According to official figures from ComScore in December 2009, Gmail has 176 million users worldwide and counting. Google very smartly decided to make use of the huge dedicated customer base and launched Google Call Phone service 2 days ago which integrates the Google Voice calling technology with Gmail and turns users’ inboxes in to a […]

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Facebook Launches Location Service & Its iPhone App

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Facebook has officially launched its location based service called Facebook Places in collaboration with the current big players of the field, Foursquare and Gowalla. The service was unveiled in a press ceremony at the Facebook headquarters yesterday where CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that they had been working on the project for the last 8 months […]

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UAE Bans BlackBerry Email, Web Browsing & Messaging

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The chief of the UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Mohammed al-Ghanem has announced that due to serious security concerns, their government has decided to ban email, web browsing and messenger services on BlackBerry smartphones. The official statement by Ghanem says: In the public interest, we have today informed the providers of telecommunications services in the country […]

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Google Voice Now Open to All in the U.S.

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Known as GrandCentral upon its launch in 2006, Google Voice till now was an invite only service. Not any more. Google has announced today that Google Voice is now open to all in the U.S after immense popularity among the one million exclusive users. The service (available only in America) acts as a unified phone […]

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