Coca Cola joined the growing ranks of companies that are abandoning voicemail, so people who call the company may be hearing a message…
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MVNO Red Pocket experiments with bring-your-own visual voicemail
Red Pocket is letting third-party voicemail provider YouMail at its customers. The move could be a precursor to virtual operators dumping their antiquated voicemail services. If customers are bringing their own phones and apps, why shouldn't they bring their own voicemail?…
Read MoreMobileTechRoundup podcast 257: CES preview; Nokia Lumia 710 impressions
On this week's audio podcast, Matt and Kevin share their expectations for next week's big Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Nokia Lumia 710 is in hand, so both hosts share their thoughts on this very capable $50 Windows Phone device for T-Mobile's network.…
Read MoreShould mobile operators give up on voicemail?
Rural mobile operator Viaero Wireless is preloading YouMail’s visual voicemail application into all Android phones, giving customers a compelling alternative to its standard network mailbox services. This could be the beginning of a trend that sees the mobile carriers abandoning voicemail to independent cloud providers.…
Read MoreStudy of New Year’s Resolutions: Workers Won’t Unplug in 2011
A recent survey of New Year's resolutions found that workers are not interested in being out of touch in 2011. Less than one in five workers (19 percent) resolves to unplug from email or voicemail in their time off from work.…
Read MoreQuick Fix: Reset Your iPhone’s Voicemail Password
After upgrading to iOS 4.2.1, I noticed my visual voicemail wasn't working. The phone app kept asking for my password. Well, I don't know my voicemail password anymore, and I suspect I'm not alone. Here's how to fix it if you're in the same boat.…
Read MoreYap Brings Free Voicemail Transcription to iPhone
Apple iPhone users are still waiting for an official Google Voice app, but they don't have to wait for transcribed voicemails because Yap does that today. The free application makes it easy to read voicemails and respond to them by return call, email or text message.…
Read MoreCreative Ways to Use Google Voice
Now that Google's free telephone forwarding, screening and voicemail service Google Voice is open to anyone in the U.S., web workers are finding many creative ways to use it. Google Voice has an extensive list of features; here're a few ideas on how to use them:…
Read MoreGoogle Voice Arrives on the iPhone, via the Web
Apple (s aapl) can ban all the apps they want, but that apparently won’t stop Google (s goog) from giving iPhone customers…
Read MoreTrue Visual Voicemail: PhoneTag, Google Voice and AT&T’s New Voicemail to Text Service
In case you didn’t realize it, listening to voicemail is a colossal waste of time. Humans read much faster than they can…
Read MoreRingCentral Office: Comprehensive Internet-based Phone Services
A few days ago, Aliza provided some excellent planning advice on how to pick a company phone system. I’ve written in the…
Read MoreGrasshopper: A Business-oriented Virtual Phone System
With all of the fancy technologies we use today, it’s easy for web workers to overlook the importance of the telephone. I…
Read More3jam: An Alternative to Google Voice?
I’ve been using Google Voice (s goog) since it was GrandCentral, and have been quite impressed. But it’s still in beta, and…
Read MoreSpinVox Voicemail Transcription Done By Call Center Staff, Not Algorithm?
Voicemail transcription startup SpinVox is in a bit of a fix, after a BBC investigation found that the majority of messages the…
Read MoreGoogle Voice to Offer Phone and Messaging Services
Google Voice wants to be your phone manager, SMS and voicemail provider. The service is rumored to be almost ready for public…
Read MoreYouMail: More Useful Voicemail
Voicemail, useful though it is, is pretty unsophisticated: you record a greeting, caller leaves a message. YouMail aims to improve the voicemail…
Read MoreWeekly App Store Roundup: Dec. 13th, 2008
The world slows down for another couple of days as we hit the weekend and take a few moments to catch our…
Read MorePhoneTag Supports GrandCentral for Text-Based Voicemails
Web Worker Daily readers are likely familiar with GrandCentral, a service that gives you a single phone number that can ring multiple…
Read More9 Techniques For Closing a Deal via Voicemail
Using old school voicemail to sell our technology is a lost art. How many of us dread the voice mail prompt?! While…
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