Google Voice for iPhone Adds iPod touch Support

Description

Access your Google Voice account right from your iPhone.

Receive push notifications for new text or voicemail messages.

Send free text messages to U.S. numbers and make international calls at cheap rates.

Listen to your voicemail, read transcripts and manage your Google Voice inbox.

Display your Google Voice number as caller ID when making calls.

Call contacts from your iPhone Address Book or enter new numbers on the dialpad.

A Google Voice account is required to use this app. To sign up go to www.google.com/voice.

Google Voice is only available in the United States.

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What's New in Version 1.1.0.636

* Support for iPod Touch
* iPod Touch and iPhone can now make calls using Click2Call
* Do Not Disturb setting
* Text forwarding is automatically disabled when registering for Push notifications
* Added Text forwarding setting to the app
* Easier to make calls from the phone Address Book
* Removed annoying OK dialog every time you send an SMS
* Fixed crashes caused by text messages that begin with a space character
* Fixed bug that caused the entire Inbox to load
* Fixed bug that caused Contact pictures to get mixed up
* Improved access to Contact groups
* Improved speed of Contact search

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Customer Reviews

itouch support 

     

by David Spilkin

yay itouch support, thank you

Landscape 

     

by SuperNick7

Great having a native app for the Ipod Touch finally, but let's get some landscape keyboarding action in there

works great on ipod touch 2g 

     

by evanmo

title says it all except that i'm on ios 3.1.2.

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As more and more consumers use their phones for both business and product search and purchasing, mobile ad formats for retailers are becoming a more compelling way to connect with these users. Today, Google is bringingits seller ratings ad format to the mobile platform, allowing searchers using Google on the mobile web to see ratings of merchants within a search ad. Another interesting tidbit from the post—Google Mobile searches were up 130 percent year-over-year in Q3 of 2010.

Similar to seller ratings for web-based search ads, the mobile format allows advertisers to include a rating for a business. Seller Ratings are aggregated from merchant review sites and Google says the the extension will only show when a merchant’s online store has a rating of four or more stars and includes at least 30 reviews.

The ad itself shows the merchants star rating and posts a link to the seller’s reviews. Google says that the mobile ad formats with seller ratings are only available on Google.com, Google.co.uk and Google.de domains. And Google cautions that these types of ads are only appropriate for “advertisers who provide users with paid goods or services or those that enable the buying or selling of products or services via a marketplace.”

Microsoft joins group targeting Google deal

The FairSearch.org coalition said Monday that Microsoft (MSFT 27.25, +0.02, +0.07%) is among a handful of new members, who will be demonstrating “concern around the world about the broader threat the Google-ITA deal poses to travel consumers.”

Google (GOOG 595.00, +0.38, +0.06%) announced in July that it plans to purchase ITA Software, which provides travel information technology to Microsoft, American Airlines(AMR 7.84, +0.01, +0.13%) and others.

That announcement drew concerns from rivals and critics who say Google could use its market power as a dominant search engine to hinder competition in the online travel industry.

Google controls about 66% of the U.S. search market, according to comScore Inc. data, while Microsoft and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO 16.86, +0.17, +1.03%) hold a combined, 28% share.

Apple, Google, RIM go shopping for Nortel patents

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The source claims that, following the first round of bids, Nortel has grouped the patents into six different technology buckets—this will reduce the possibility that a single company will end up owning all of Nortel's patents. With more than 4,000 patents to Nortel's name, that still puts several hundred into each group, ranging from optical data to online advertising, PCs, and wireless tech.

Google Latitude for iPhone now available

Tired of being texted: "Where are you?" by your friends? Google Latitude for iPhone can answer that question for them without taking you away from your other important text messages, like "Hafta break up with u; sorry," or "Free food @Phils, 2 pm."

The free, location-based app, made available Monday in Apple's App Store, lets you share your location continuously with whomever you want, and see where your friends are on a map, as well as on a handy-dandy list.

Location-based apps, like Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook's Connect, are all the rage, it seems. But Google has had a dedicated mobile website for Latitude for awhile, and the app has been available for use on BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian smart phones, as well as on computers. But the iteration for the iPhone is specifically made for Apple's iOS 4, the latest version of the company's mobile operating system.