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Google Voice Now Lets You Change Your Number. It’ll Cost You $10.

TechCrunch  Jul 02 09

When I first signed up for GrandCentral a few years ago, I lived in a different city. As such, I had a different area code. And that was fine until I moved and Google, which bought GrandCentral in 2007 and subsequently put it on lockdown, prohibited me from changing it. I didn't think much of it until my GrandCentral account magically transformed into a Google Voice account a few months ago, taking a good service and making it excellent. Unfortunately, I was still stuck with my old number. But now, there's an option to change it. The "Change your number" functionality, as spotted today by Boy Genius Report, is great news for users like me. Full story...

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Online Advertising In The U.S Begins To Stabilize

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Online advertising revenues in the U.S. seem to be stabilizing. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers released third-quarter figures showing that online advertising in the U.

Just In Time For #Thanksgiving, TurkeyTwitter Gathers All The #Thankful Tweets

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Want to know what people are thankful for this Thanksgiving? You can be sure many will be Tweeting about it.

Ustream Brings Its Viewer App To Android Market

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Ustream has just launched a version of its Ustream Viewer for Android Market, giving users the ability to access any Ustream footage while they're on the go, free of charge.

Sobees Tackles LinkedIn In Powerful New Clients, Android App To Launch Soon

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The evolution of Twitter clients have been speeding along. While Twitter is the fundamental platform that formed a base for many applications, such as TweetDeck, Seesmic, PeopleBrowsr and Sobees, these platforms soon looked to other social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and FriendFeed for additional integration.

LinkedIn Signs Up 3 Million Users In UK, Won’t Go Public Any Time Soon

TechCrunch  5 hours ago

Business social network LinkedIn has hit a milestone in the UK, surpassing 3 million registered users in these parts.

IPhone To Be Sold In The UK Equivalent Of Walmart

TechCrunch  7 hours ago

Is an iPhone price war about to break out in the UK? After Vodafone and Orange bagged the iPhone - when O2's two year monopoly expired in September - we learn today that Tesco, the UK supermarket leviathan, is to sell the iPhone on Tesco Mobile, its MVNO joint venture partnership with O2.

KIDO’Z Upgrades Its Web Environment For Kids

TechCrunch  7 hours ago

KIDO'Z, the Israeli company behind the eponymous media browser for kids, has released a new version of its program and insists that we now refer to it as a Web OS for kids instead.

Four Years In, You Can Now Subscribe To WordPress.com Blogs By E-mail

TechCrunch  8 hours ago

You would think that, almost exactly 4 years after opening up to the public, WordPress.com would have a way for people to subscribe to blogs by e-mail, right? You'd be wrong, at least until today.

Scamville Shakeout: Was Gambit The Right Fall Guy?

TechCrunch  10 hours ago

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Mobile Web Usage Continues To Explode As Opera Mini Nears 40 Million Monthly Users

TechCrunch  11 hours ago

We all know the Mobile web is exploding in popularity. Opera Mini, Opera's mobile browser, grew its monthly users by 11 percent to nearly 40 million users in October from 32 million users in August.



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