Voicemail

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How To Listen To Voicemail Like The News Of The World

9:00AM August 31, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Kevin Mitnick, legendary hacker and author of Ghost in the Wires, sat down with Reuters reporter Anthony De Rosa to illustrate how someone’s voicemail can be accessed — sans password — simply by spoofing the caller ID. It’s absolutely wild, just watch. More »


Mobile

How News Of The World Hacked Everybody’s Phones

7:45AM July 20, 2011 | Rachel Swaby

For a while, leaving your phone unattended seemed like the biggest threat to phone security. But this recent business is a reminder that there are savvier ways someone can violate your phone – without even touching it. More »


News

Rise Of The Hacker Journalist

5:30AM July 6, 2011 | Mat Honan

Milly Dowler vanished in 2002. It set off a huge sensation in the UK, similar to the Natalee Holloway case in the United States. Now, reports have surfaced that News of the World hacked into her voicemail. More »


Software

Google Voice Is Only Around To Collect Our Data

3:41AM May 4, 2011 | Adrian Covert

When Google launched their Voice service a couple of years ago, people made a big deal about what their move into the telecom world meant. In a print-only interview with New Scientist Peter Norvig, Google’s head of research, he said the main reason they launched the service was so they could better learn how to transcribe human voice to text. More »


Geek Out

News Of The World Grants "Unreserved Apology" To Victims Of Voicemail Hacking Scandal

8:00AM April 10, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Eight victims of the News of the World’s “phone hacking” scandal have received an unprecedented apology from that publication this week. The apology marks a 180-degree reversal for NotW, which had maintained for several years that the job was the work of one reporter. More »


Mobile

Is It Ever OK To Leave Voicemail Anymore?

2:00AM February 18, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The ubiquity of voicemail made sense when our phones lived in the kitchen, not our pockets – before SMS and Twitter and the dozens of other ways we now stay perma-connected. So when does it make sense to use voicemail? More »


Software

New Google Voice Android Widgets Bring Faster Inbox Access

5:54AM September 10, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Google has introduced a new pair of Google Voice widgets that display your voicemail inbox contents and account settings. Without leaving your home screen, you’ll be able to read messages, send free texts and view your credit balance. More »


Mobile

Top 10 Clever Google Voice Tricks

6:12PM June 27, 2010 | a

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Software

This Is How Google Voice Will Ruin Your Relationships

4:00PM February 24, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Long ago, someone wrote about how Google is out to control your dog and marry your wife. I don’t know how right he was about all that, but I certainly know that Google Voice is out to ruin relationships. More »


Software

What Is Google Voice? Let Google Tell You

10:00AM February 19, 2010 | Mark Wilson

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Maybe this is just me, but as innovation moves to the cloud, I find that simple concepts can become esoteric – like Google Voice. Here’s a handy explanation as to what the heck it actually does. More »