Use Google Voice with your existing number

Up until now, if you wanted to use Google Voice, you needed to choose a new number (a "Google number"). Taking calls through your Google number allows us to offer features like call recording, call screening and getting text messages via email.

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What's new with Gmail on iPhone and Android

"Back in April, we released a new version of Gmail for mobile, re-designed to be faster, more usable, and offer basic offline support on iPhone and Android devices. The improvements we made to its underlying architecture have made it possible for us to rapidly release new features and further improve performance since then."

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GeoCities Closes On 26th October: Goodbye, Old Friend

So, we’ve come to the end of the road. The service that hosted the first website for a generation is set to close down on 26th October. If you’re a GeoCities user, you’ve been given plenty of warning, but you can still hop over there and get your data out today before current owner Yahoo turns out the lights.

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HOW TO: Find and Add Facebook Apps

With over 300 million users, Facebook is undeniably one of the best places to keep in touch with friends, and one of the reasons it’s so popular are its applications.

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Twitter Finally Removing Deleted Tweets From Search Results

While most users may have not realized it, Twitter has had a rather annoying problem for some time now: If you deleted a tweet, it would still reside in Twitter Search’s index. This meant that if you said something you didn’t mean to, or made a mistake that you hoped to correct by deleting the tweet, it was still easily accessible by anyone who simply typed your username into Twitter search. Finally, that’s no longer the case.

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Imo.im Quietly Building One Solid Multi-Network Instant Messaging App

Imo.im is a multi-network IM tool, which means you can use it to log on to multiple messaging services like Windows Live Messenger / MSN, AIM / ICQ, MySpace, Yahoo Messenger, Jabber, Gtalk and even Skype and get a single, complete contact list from inside your browser and chat with people on your list using text, voice or video. It also boasts a basic desktop client, which is unfortunately still Windows-only.

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New Apple Ad Goes After Windows 7

New in Gmail Labs: Got the wrong Bob?

When's the last time you got an email from a stranger asking, "Are you sure you meant to send this to me?" and promptly realized that you didn't? Sometimes these little mistakes are actually quite painful. Hate mail about your boss to your boss? Personal info to some random guy named Bob instead of Bob the HR rep? Doh!

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'3' To 1: Britney Beats Odds To Debut Atop Hot 100

Britney Spears becomes the first artist in over three years to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, to be released tomorrow (Oct. 15), as "3" opens at the pinnacle of the chart.

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The Underutilized Power Of The Video Demo To Explain What The Hell You Actually Do

Just making a video isn’t enough – you need to make sure that the video actually conveys what the hell you actually do. This is apparently much harder than it sounds...

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Mac fanboys should get a life and some Windows 7 common sense

Windows 7 is simply Microsoft's best operating system ever. Mac fanboys should worry and circle together in defensive posture. Collectively, they're making a last stand against the PC giant. Please, please, boisterous Mac defenders, stand in the front lines and receive the first blows. You deserve them.

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Dropbox Acquires The Domain Everyone Thought It Had: Dropbox.com

It’s hard to gauge just how important a good domain name is to a startup’s success — after all, we’ve seen plenty of companies with meaningless names do very well for themselves. But there’s a difference between a name that’s gibberish and one that’s very easy to confuse with something else, which is a test that Dropbox failed with its GetDropbox domain.

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10 of the Most Disturbing Books of All Time

Any one of these books is capable of leaving you feeling a little depressed at the least, and permanently scarred at the worst.

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Fight Between the Crew Leaves Air India Cockpit Unmanned

If Indian national carrier, Air India didn’t have enough problems, now the airline has hit the headlines for a brawl between pilots and cabin crew that reportedly left the cockpit unmanned during a flight between Sharjah, UAE to the Indian capital Delhi.

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Kevin Rose confirms Digg iPhone App [VIDEO]

Kevin Rose confirms Digg iPhone App is in development. Check out the video from FOWA London.

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