Categories: Apple And Google

Google Voice Get More Flexible For iPhone Users

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on October 27

Rob Hof has a post next door on Tech Beat regarding today’s news that Google Voice is allowing people to sign up for the service using their existing mobile numbers….

Google Un-Redacts Its FCC Letter

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on September 18

There’s been another new development in the saga of the Google Voice application for the iPhone today. Google, following Freedom Of Information Act requests for sections that had been redacted…

Apple, Google and AT&T Letters to FCC: The Reactions, And Why Google’s Letter Is Redacted

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 21

The first rapid-response reaction to the replies to the FCC by Apple, Google and AT&T just hit my in-box. It’s from Ben Scott, policy director at FreePress: “Today marks an…

Apple To FCC: We’re Still Studying Google Voice App

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 21

Apple, Google and AT&T today all replied to letters they received from the Federal Communications Commission sent on July 31 regarding what’s been widely described as a rejection of an…

Apple Passes Google In Value. Is This A Changing Of The Guard?

Posted by: Peter Burrows on August 10

As has been duly noted elsewhere, Apple passed Google in total market cap. At the close of the day’s trading, AAPL is worth $147.56 billion, while GOOG is worth $144.2…

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Resigns From Apple’s Board

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 03

Apple announced today that Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has been an Apple director since August of 2006, has stepped down from Apple’s board. The move comes as a result…

Audio Comments On The iPhone - Google Voice Kerfuffle

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on July 28

Here’s one happy Google Voice customer who’s also an iPhone user. I’ll add more messages to this post as they come in. Our second comment concerns a workaround that you…

What’s Apple Got Against Google Voice?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on July 28

As you can tell from the little icon at the upper right of this blog, I’m a fan of Google Voice, and have been since it was called GrandCentral. The…

CNBC’s Jim Goldman On Eric Schmidt, Google CEO And Apple Director

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on April 15

“To me it’s amazing that he’s lasted this long,” CNBC’s Jim Goldman writes about Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s position on Apple’s board of directors. I’ve been wondering the same thing…

Google + GrandCentral = The Next iPhone App?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on July 02

Somewhere amid the iPhone madness last week I missed the rumor about Google acquiring GrandCentral.com. Well apparently the deal went down today officially. If you haven’t tried Grand Central yet,…

Could .Mac Move To Google?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on June 08

There’s a growing number of voices speculating, much as I did in this column in August of 2006, that Apple might migrate its customers who use the .Mac service over…

And Speaking of Apple-Google Collaboration

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on May 31

Everyone here in the office is buzzing about Google’s new Street View feature on Google Maps, which shows these fascinating panoramic pictures of streets in various cities. Here’s a link…