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VentureBeat: Google giving phone numbers to homeless

  • brett · 2 years ago
    Grand Central announced their participation in this project before they launched last year:
    http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/20...
  • Harshal Vaidya · 2 years ago
    Where the F will the homeless get a internet connection and a computer. Remember they are HOMELESS!!
  • Tonepoetic · 2 years ago
    This actually makes a lot of sense to me. You can check voicemail from a shelter phone or a payphone (for 50 cents). And every time I go to the Chicago Public Library, many homeless people are using the computers there for free. Several homeless people have given me their email addresses, in fact. Why not phone numbers?
  • thehack · 2 years ago
    It's good to know they still think of the "do no evil" motto sometime. Of course you might want to tell that to the Chinese dissedents. I tend to think that the larger any orginization gets it inevitably steps on people. No matter how good its intentions.

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  • Why Voicemail Messages MP3s in · 2 years ago
    It's much, much more easier and handy to work with voicemail messages mp3s than with traditional voicemail.They can be delivered in email as an attachment or stored on third party hosts, i.e. easily accessible online.I keep all my countless important voicemails in one place that way plus can share/forward them instantly not to mention saving on cell minutes. Heck, I even created some funny voicemail messages mixing in my favorite MP3 tracks as a background. So it's neat stuff. The key here is to get your voicemail mp3s produced automatically. Jeff