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Google Voice Opens To All

Posted by kdawson on from the is-this-the-party-to-whom-i-am-speaking dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google Voice is now open to anyone in the US, removing the need to search for an invite. At the Google Voice site, anyone with a US IP address and a US phone number can sign up for an account. Non-US IPs are blocked, and non-US-based phone numbers are prevented from attaching to Google Voice (with the single odd exception of the 403 area code of southern Alberta)." Good timing on the part of Frontier Communications Corp., which just filed a lawsuit claiming that the Google Voice feature connecting a user's home, work, and cell phone numbers to another number infringes one of their patents.

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  1. FIX SLASHDOT by Yvan256 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can the people in charge of Slashdot please fix the moderation system? It's been broken since yesterday. I have no idea how people are able to moderate.

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    1. Re:FIX SLASHDOT by bendodge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Also, why do some subdomains not have the AJAX-style interface today?

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  2. Internet filter proposed for all... by Clifton+Beach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...Australians

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