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Black Swan brings Google Voice back to the iPhone without the App Store

by TJ Luoma (Mar 9th, 2010)

Google Voice on the iPhone has been something of a sore subject for me. If you need a full-recap of the whole sordid iPhone/Google Voice story see this story from December or more of our coverage. I even started a little site devoted to waiting for Google Voice on the iPhone called ...

Access Google Voice from the iPhone via Safari

by Dave Caolo (Jan 26th, 2010)

Earlier today, Google made a mobile web version of Google Voice available for the iPhone. To understand the significance of this move, here's a bit of back story. Apple pulled all Google Voice related apps from the App Store back in July, which led to an FCC inquiry, which led Apple to claim they ...

Is Google Voice available for the iPhone?

by TJ Luoma (Dec 25th, 2009)

Need a refresher on the Google Voice and Apple saga? Let's recap the story to date: Apple pulled all Google Voice related apps from the App Store back in July, which led to an FCC inquiry, which led Apple to claim they had not rejected but were "studying" Google Voice, which Google contradicted. ...

Should we continue using an app that Apple has rejected?

by Brett Kelly (Nov 16th, 2009)

It doesn't happen so much anymore, but not too long ago you'd hear about a new offering arriving in the App Store that would stir up a little controversy (the NetShare tethering app springs to mind). They'd enjoy some fanfare and a ton of purchases for a few days before being summarily removed, ...

Trillian's 75-day limbo: the App Store, Freewill, and the pocket veto

by TJ Luoma (Oct 29th, 2009)

What do United States politics, a Canadian rock song, and a California computer company have in common? Here are some hints: the Pocket Veto, Freewill, and the App Store. When the President of the United States is presented with a bill, she or he has 10 days to sign it, or veto it. If the President ...

Business Insider: AT&T to allow VoIP on its 3G network

by Steven Sande (Oct 6th, 2009)

Business Insider is reporting that AT&T has given Apple the go-ahead to enable Voice over IP (VoIP) apps such as Skype on its 3G network. In the past, VoIP apps required a Wi-Fi connection. The announcement was made in advance of the annual conference sponsored by CTIA - The Wireless ...

Using Skype to battle cell phone dead zones

by Sang Tang (Sep 30th, 2009)

Is the cell coverage in your area not up to par? Whether you happen to have steel walls or live where there are no cell phone towers or trees cleverly disguised as cell phone towers, some of us must deal with the reality that, while we own arguably the most innovative gadget in recent years in the ...

Google contradicts Apple, states Apple rejected Google Voice

by Joachim Bean (Sep 18th, 2009)

The Google Voice story grows even murkier today as new details arise about its App Store rejection. When the FCC launched an inquiry into the presence of the Google Voice app on the App Store, Apple, AT&T and Google all provided formal response letters. Portions of Google's letter were kept ...

FCC makes it official: Cellular carriers policies getting a closer look

by Mel Martin (Aug 27th, 2009)

Maybe the submissions by Apple, Google and AT&T helped, or maybe they hurt, but the FCC is going to take a closer look at the U.S. cellphone industry and if competition is helping consumers. [Link to FCC announcement in PDF format] Today the Commission said: As communications ...

Distinctions without differences: Apple's inconsistent app store rejection policies

by Sang Tang (Aug 22nd, 2009)

I admit, I was one of those to pile on ol' Ma Bell as the culprit for keeping the Google Voice app (don't I wish that was a real iTunes link) off the App Store. Restrictions on Skype and the SlingPlayer app on the iPhone had conditioned me to believe that the "game changing" iPhone had, well, a ...

FCC Responses: Google's turn to answer to the FCC

by Joachim Bean (Aug 21st, 2009)

Along with Apple's and AT&T's response, Google has also responded to the FCC's inquiry on the Google Voice rejection. Unfortunately, the contact between Apple and Google on the rejection has been removed from the letter, which will not clear up everything just yet. There's no apparent reason ...

FCC Responses: Apple's take on the GV apps mess

by Michael Rose (Aug 21st, 2009)

The functionality allowing an app to replace Visual Voicemail with a separate service is neither novel nor categorically banned from the App Store, as this is already available in the YouMail app. The iPhone supports standard GSM codes for conditional forwarding of calls to third-party answering ...

FCC responses are in: AT&T disavows any knowledge of App Store internal shenanigans

by Michael Rose (Aug 21st, 2009)

Engadget got a copy of AT&T's response to the FCC inquiries, and to sum it up: the Death Star finds the FCC's lack of faith disturbing. The telecom giant says that it neither supported not opposed the Google Voice apps for iPhone -- in fact, Apple didn't mention the GV apps to AT&T, nor ...

FCC investigation of Apple, AT&T and Google revs up today

by Mel Martin (Aug 21st, 2009)

Today is the day for Apple, AT&T and Google to submit their answers to questions the FCC posed about the banning of Google Voice on the iPhone. Google may be in for some tough questions too. USA Today is reporting Google will have to answer questions about why Skype is crippled on the Android ...

More red meat for the FCC to chew on with AT&T and Apple

by Mel Martin (Aug 3rd, 2009)

Reflecting on my last post -- and how unbelievable the AT&T statement was that they have nothing to do with what gets approved in Apple's App Store -- convinced me I needed to refresh my dimming memory banks. Remember all the flames about whether Skype would come out for the iPhone last year? ...