Grand Central Becomes Google Voice - Available To The Public
Posted by Eric Torres on Tue, Aug 18, 2009 @ 10:10 AM
Since 2007, we've been waiting for Google's Grand Central to go live. It's a "grand" idea all right, have your phone calls from all your phone numbers (home, work, cell) routed through a single number. It includes some great features, like the ability to listen to voicemail messages while they were being recorded (like with old fashioned answering machines), creating personalized greetings for individual callers and the ability to switch from one line to another (for example, from your cell phone to your home phone) during a call without interrupting the call. All that, and free! So what's the problem? It's been in beta testing for two years, and only a select number of testers could use it. Now Google has renamed the service Google Voice, and has offered it to the public by invite only. To find out more about it, and to get your invite, click here.