Google Voice: One phone number, online voicemail, and enhanced call features

Thanks to Ileane from Ms. Ileane Speaks, I found out about the newest service that Google is offering for free, and it’s called Google Voice.

In Google Voice, you’ll have a Google number. This number is like a normal phone number, except it’s not tied to a phone or a location, it’s tied to you. The main idea is to replace all the numbers you have, like your cellphone number, home and phone numbers, by your Google number. With this, people won’t call your cellphone, your home or your work, they will call you, and you will decide where or in which phone you’ll answer them.

Please watch the videos below and tell me: What do you think about this new service? Will you give it a try? What’s your expectations about it?

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Taiwan presents a computer chip almost invisible

It has 6 transistors in an area of 300 by 130 nanometers. Part will allow the manufacturing of notebook smaller and lighter.

Laboratory of Nanotechnology of Taiwan presented on Wednesday one of the world’s smallest microchip. It has six transistors in a space of 300 by 130 nanometers and will allow the manufacturing of notebook computers and cell phones even smaller in the future. For comparison, the average size of the human fingernail is 25 million nanometers.

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From Globo.com

Graphics Showdown: 13 Games for Newer iPhones

Ever wondered what some of the graphical differences are in games that make use of the newer hardware in the latest versions of Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch? So were we. That’s why we put together a screenshot comparison gallery of 13 games, all of which are either packing extra OpenGL ES 2.0 goodies, or that more complicated graphics modes that run a whole lot better on the beefier hardware spec.

As for our testing, we ran each title on an iPhone 3G and a third-generation iPod Touch, the latter of which packs the faster innards required for some of the advanced OpenGL effects.

To our surprise, there were very few apps on the App Store that made use the new graphical spec, and even fewer that required a standalone version of that application to do so. However, many of the developers we talked with said that they were cooking up new titles that would be pushing these new devices a little further than what they had already created. That’s good news for those with a newer iPhone or iPod Touch, but a definite thorn in the side of those who might not be able to play some of near-future App Store releases on their original iPhone or iPhone 3G.

Click on our slideshow link below to get started. We’ve also included links to each version of each app (in case there are variations), all of which open up in iTunes. Also, in case we missed any, feel free to leave them in the comments and we’ll try to add them later.

Images: iPhone games graphics showdown

From CNET.com

Google Latitude Lets Users Follow Their Own Footprints

Users of Google’s location-aware mobile software can now track their whereabouts over time and receive alerts when contacts are nearby, thanks to two features added to the software on Tuesday.

The free application, Google Latitude, introduced earlier this year for a variety of cellphones, was originally designed to let friends see each other’s locations and then contact each other via SMS, IM or phone to meet up when they’re in close proximity.

Now, by enabling a new location history feature, users can store, view and manage their own past Latitude locations as well. With Google Location Alerts, meanwhile, they can be notified when friends are nearby, thereby avoiding the need to keep checking Latitude for updated activity.

Both new features were popular feature requests, software engineer Chris Lambert noted in announcing the changes on the Google Mobile blog.

From TechNewsWorld.com