Lowell Deeds

Google is about to launch a new service called Google Voice. While I’m still a little fuzzy on all the details, it seems that this service will assign you a single telephone number that will ring at every phone that you indicate - at home, on your cell, and at work. No longer will you have to send emails that say “from 8:30 a.m. until noon call me at my office number but from noon to 1 pm call my cell phone but after 1 pm call my office.” Instead, all of your phones will ring at once with all calls and all voice messages will be routed into the same place, retrievable from any of your phones or from your computer. David Pogue, the New York Times technology correspondent, wrote a very positive article about Google Voice which I urge you to read.