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That happened to me last night. I was well surprised. I did however, to accept it, need to install a Google Voice plugin into Chrome. Surprised it was not native to Hangout, to be honest. This also implies SMS will become integrated in some way or another. Although I’d love for SMS to disappear.

about 3 hours ago on Hangouts already features Google Voice Integration 1 reply

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I was thinking a Nexus GTV would be killer. I think however that they may be moving more towards Chrome being the core than Android. ChromeOS on a TV makes some sense.

about 3 hours ago on Where Google needs to go from here, after I/O 1 recommend

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I can see why you’d say this, but I think YouTube is a Juggernaut and to rebrand it would be a bad move. Let gtv tie in with youtube in many ways. Sort of how the Google Play for movies does.

about 5 hours ago on Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013

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A precedent for letting the Cellular carriers get what they want, and the use of said chairman position to jockey for a high paying reward job for being a friend to said companies.

1 day ago on FCC Chair Julius Genachowski steps down today, but what will he leave behind? 2 recommends

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Keep on dismissing people you feel look silly. There is a winning formula.

1 day ago on Will Google Glass create information heroes or new-wave Bluetooth dorks? 2 replies 1 recommend

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I personally would rather civilians all had cameras, and not businesses and the government watching us. Why are we alright with permanent surveillance and this is upsetting people?

1 day ago on Will Google Glass create information heroes or new-wave Bluetooth dorks? 1 reply

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Are they really hacking these sites or are they using social engineering/meatspace exploits to get info? The government will try to use this a fuel to take away privacy to protect our networks. But the short answer is people are idiots, and usually the easiest method to obtain what you want. Why hunt for what you can get someone to give you?

1 day ago on Syrian Electronic Army hacks Financial Times website and Twitter feed 2 replies 1 recommend

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I’d say Minecraft and more recently Don’t starve are successes in exactly by embracing the customers. Nintendo is making it obvious they’ve lost their way. Too bad they made some great games back in the day.

2 days ago on Who owns a 'Luigi's Mansion' walkthrough video, the player or Nintendo? 4 recommends

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Most of the Pro MS people here won’t touch the subject of Linux/MS/SCO FUD. The tactics they are using against Android are nearly identical, except in this case MS seems to be at a loss of how to stop it.
Either they are too young to remember 7 years ago in tech or they didn’t understand how MS tried to derail free and open software, because it threatened their profits, and for no other reason.

3 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 1 reply 1 recommend

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They are threatening litigation. That is called suing. Settling out of court doesn’t for a single moment mean that ms isn’t suing.

3 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 1 reply 2 recommends

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If MS owned YouTube it would be IE and Windows only, maybe it’d work on OSX partially, but never on Linux, or BSD. Such is the way of things…

3 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 2 replies

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It’s called competition,

Then stop the whining about what Google is doing and let these grown ups get in the ring. Its called competition. May the better company win. Personally I’d rather see them both get ahead without having to try to knock the other one down.

3 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads

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With a cheese moat and Bacon gates.

3 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 1 reply

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I was going to suggest a web app, but that’d be marginal, would lack offline caching etc. Out of curiosity, you are typically a proponent of Microsoft and their services, is there something in their Xbox Music that doesn’t meet your use scenario? I’ve never tried XBox music.

3 days ago on Google Play Music All Access hands-on: should you switch from Spotify or Rdio? 2 replies

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Where did yo find the install for hangouts?

3 days ago on Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess 1 reply

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I haven’t seen it or experienced it to pass judgement. Anything to rid the world of the abusive SMS rates the better. I’d rather they didn’t help SMS survive.

3 days ago on Hangouts is a disappointment 4 replies 3 recommends

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Need? None. Want? There is a reason there have been several, it has to do with reader viewership.

3 days ago on The story behind Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' 4 recommends

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There is a metric shit ton of difference between wide scale surveillance and checking call logs.

Subpoenas to collect records of outgoing calls and possibly other information

I’d suggest one of the two parties are lying. The AP doesn’t seem like responsible journalists if they are deliberately misstating this news. Something is amiss at the foot of Circle K.

4 days ago on Justice Department defends surveillance of AP reporter phone calls 2 replies 1 recommend

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Alright that is entirely different. Very few people in the world deserve to suffer, much less deserve having it wished upon them by total strangers. (notice the number of people below your comment agreeing with the sentiment?) /keep it classy Vergins

4 days ago on Google CEO Larry Page says his voice problems were caused by vocal cord paralysis 3 recommends

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Did anyone here ever try Eve by Peter Gabriel? That was such a great experience to explore.

4 days ago on Play The Verge-curated 'Sound Shapes' album on May 28th

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Class move there wishing vocal paralysis on anyone. /poor form

4 days ago on Google CEO Larry Page says his voice problems were caused by vocal cord paralysis 1 reply 11 recommends