Google Voice gives you one number for all your phones — a phone number that is tied to you, not to a device or a location. Use Google Voice to simplify the way you use phones, make using voicemail as easy as email, customize your callers’ experience, and more.
Google Voice isn’t a phone service, but it lets you manage all of your phones. Google Voice works with mobile phones, desk phones, work phones, and VoIP lines. There’s nothing to download, upload, or install, and you don’t have to make or take calls using a computer.
Google Voice will let you define which phones ring, based on who’s calling, and even let you ListenInTM on voicemail before answering the call. We use smart technology to route your calls. So, if you’re already on a Google Voice call, we’ll recognize it and use call waiting to reach you on the phone you’re on.
Note: At this time Google Voice is only available in the U.S.”
“Street View ermöglicht es, Orte leichter zu finden und zu entdecken und auf einen Ort bezogene Aktivitäten besser zu planen. Dabei nehmen wir den Schutz der Privatsphäre unserer Nutzer sehr ernst. Street View beinhaltet ausschließlich Bildmaterial von öffentlichen Straßen, welches sich nicht von solchen Bildern unterscheidet, die jeder beim Entlangfahren einer Straße sehen und aufnehmen könnte. Bildmaterial dieser Art ist in vielfältiger Weise für Städte auf der ganzen Welt verfügbar. Wir halten die örtlichen Gesetze und Normen in jedem Land ein, in dem wir Street View anbieten.
Technologien zur Unkenntlichmachung und Optionen wie die Entfernung bestimmter Bilder gehören zu den Maßnahmen, mit denen wir den Schutz der Privatsphäre von Personen sicherstellen. Wir ermöglichen Nutzern auf einfache Weise, Bilder von ihnen, ihren Kindern, Autos oder Häusern auf Wunsch vollständig aus dem Produkt zu entfernen, selbst wenn das Bildmaterial bereits unkenntlich gemacht wurde.”
“The open source Google Android G1 phone seemed like an obvious platform for wireless robotic control, so we created an Android-based console. After running this first with the ground-based Surveyor SRV-1 robot, we made a few small modifications and used it to control the Surveyor YARB. The tilt sensors in the Android phone work quite nicely for rotor control – we have proportional steering so the amount of tilt controls the amount of power, and live video is displayed on the Android screen from the blimp’s onboard Surveyor SRV-1 Blackfin camera, carried via the same radio channel that sends the control signals.
The project is hosted on Google Code at code.google.com/p/srv1console/ as well as www.surveyor.com.”
“If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” — Lord Kelvin
How much does it cost to leave your TV on all day? What about turning your air conditioning 1 degree cooler? Which uses more power every month — your fridge or your dishwasher? Is your household more or less energy efficient than similar homes in your neighborhood?
“To see how well this idea worked I decided to build a small robot and a few applications to control it last weekend. The result of this is the Forknife Android G1 based robot, the RoboComm android application, and the RoboServ java server which I am happy to say work well. An overview of how the entire system works may be seen below.
In case others are interested in this, stuff, I have made my code for the robot, server, and android application available under the GPLv2 license. Please don’t get too upset with me if the code isn’t very polished.. I threw this together pretty quickly. At least I commented it! Be thankful ”
“Google has created an app for the iPhone that will give the handset advanced voice recognition, reports John Markoff from the NY Times. The app can answer location related questions (Finding the nearest Starbucks), give driving directions, respond to generic questions, and even search local data from the address book.”