Text help: Google Voice users will be able to search transcripts of their voicemail Search engine giant Google stole a march on its internet technology rivals today when it launched a new system that integrates email and phone messages. Google Voice gives you a single number streamlining your work, home and mobile phones and lets you store transcripts of voicemail phone messages in your email inbox. Using speech-recognition technology, it will even let you search those messages for a snippet of information just as if you were trawling a sea of emails. It will also let you make free local and...
A Peek Inside One Telemarketing Firm Ensnared in FTC Lawsuit
Fox News
Fox News
After just four days as a telemarketer at Transcontinental Warranty, Mark Israel quit. He couldn't take all the dishonesty and the "screaming and yelling" from irate consumers. A declaration from Israel, of Boca Raton,...
Far EasTone to launch Android phones
Taipei Times
Taipei Times
Far EasTone Telecommunications Co (遠傳電信), the nation’s third-biggest telecom operator, said yesterday it would launch two or three Android-based smartphones in the second half of this year as part of efforts to...
Safety board investigators want DC subway train operator's cell phone, texting records
Newsday
Newsday
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators want the cell phone and texting records from the operator of a Washington subway train that smashed into another train to determine whether she was distracted before the...
Contactless payment tech in all phones next year, says Ericsson boss
The Register
The Register
All mobile phones will feature Near Field Communications (NFC) technology within 12 months, a mobile industry executive has claimed. While speaking at a recent...
Microsoft news roundup: Bill Gates tie-less, cell phones cut, Google on Bing
Seattle Times
Seattle Times
Some bits and bytes on Microsoft from around the country: says Google's co-founder Sergey Brin has a team of engineers dissecting Bing,...
Senators Seek Probe of Exclusive Phone Deals
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
By BEN CHARNY Four U.S. senators are urging the Federal Communications Commission to investigate whether cell phone operators that sell phones on an exclusive basis are unfairly...

