Sep 19, 2010 | Google, mobile, phone, web_services
Previously: Understanding Google Voice Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 1 Google Voice Interlude – Background About Voice And Data If you’ve been following along, you understand the tension between new services like Google Voice and Skype that move your voice...
Sep 16, 2010 | Google, mobile, phone, software, web_services
Previously: Understanding Google Voice Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 1 Now things get really interesting. Well, they do to me, anyway. I’m odd. This is at best wildly simplified, and at worst completely inaccurate, but pay attention anyway – you’ll need...
Sep 13, 2010 | Google, phone, web_services
Previously: Understanding Google Voice All of this started because I don’t have a reliable cell phone signal at my home office west of Sebastopol. Verizon coverage is erratic and the area has no coverage at all from AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile. If I could, I’d use...
Sep 11, 2010 | Google, phone, web_services
Google Voice is a free service that gives you a phone number. When you dial my phone number, (707) 703-1601, you’re dialing a Google Voice number. Thanks to the Google Voice service, at the same moment my office phone rings, my cell phone rings, and Skype starts...
Sep 1, 2010 | mail, Microsoft, Outlook, phone, SBS, web_services
Previously: Fear of Exchange Moving Mail Online With Microsoft Online Services Small businesses should strongly consider having their Outlook mailboxes hosted on Exchange Servers run by Microsoft for a small monthly fee. I’m going to recommend this to a number of my...
Aug 26, 2010 | Microsoft, Outlook, phone, SBS, web_services
It feels as if the smartphone revolution has happened overnight. I am simply astonished at the number of business people and lawyers getting iPhones from AT&T and Android phones from Verizon. I rarely saw them in businesses a year ago – they were still perceived...