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- Google Voice Can Now Take Control Of Your Mobile Voicemail
- Netpulse Raises $3.1 Million For Fitness Entertainment Technology
- AOL Loses Its Chief Lifestreamer, David Liu
- OWLE Launches Bubo; Ultimate iPhone Video Rig
| Google Voice Can Now Take Control Of Your Mobile Voicemail | Top |
| Google Voice is a great way to manage phone hell by giving you a single phone number that automatically rings your mobile, home, work and other phones based on your choice of rules and settings (who’s calling, when, etc.). But people are still stuck with their legacy phone numbers, and moving completely away from them is difficult. I solved the problem by simply porting my mobile number away from AT&T over to Google Voice , a feature that Google says will be launched more broadly eventually. Others solve the problem via the Google Voice application on various phones. But even then, if someone calls your old mobile number and leaves a message, you have to deal with it separately. Not any more. Tonight Google is launching a new feature that allows mobile users to move their voicemail away from their carrier and over to Google Voice. The benefits: your mobile voicemails go into your Google Voice inbox along with other voicemails and text messages, plus you can create custom greetings for callers and your voicemails are all automatically transcribed ( sometimes hilariously ). There are a few steps that have to be completed that vary based on the carrier and phone that you use. But if you are really trying to move over to Google Voice, it’s worth it. And yes, it even works on the iPhone. Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors | |
| Netpulse Raises $3.1 Million For Fitness Entertainment Technology | Top |
| Netpulse, an interactive media platform for fitness equipment, has secured $3.1 million in Series A funding led by Javelin Venture Partners with DFJ Frontier participating. The company says it will use the investment to further development of its interactive entertainment platform, which is specifically designed for integration into fitness equipment and screens cardiovascular machines like treadmills and elliptical machines. While many gyms and fitness equipment include screens to watch TV nowadays, Netpulse’s technology gives users access to live HD television, a touch screen, on-demand videos and music, and provides iPod/ iPhone connectivity, and personalized workout data. Netpulse’s screen has not yet been launched in fitness centers and will be rolled out various gyms later this year. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. | |
| AOL Loses Its Chief Lifestreamer, David Liu | Top |
| AOL is losing another longtime executive, David Liu . He is the senior vice president in charge of Global Messaging, which includes AIM, ICQ, and AOL’s more recent Lifestreaming products. Liu spearheaded the transformation of AIM into a lifestreaming client that mixes private and public messages from Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere. When CEO Tim Armstrong was looking for someone to head up AOL’s overall Internet and mobile communications, which also includes email, Liu was the strongest internal candidate. But Armstrong decided to go outside the company and hired Brad Garlinghouse , who used to be in charge of all of Yahoo’s communications products. That, coupled with AOL’s shift towards becoming a content company , convinced Liu it was time to move on. This morning he sent out an email announcing his departure in about a month from now. Liu is already being pulled into the startup world as an angel investor (in SimpleGeo) . He’s also been talking to VC and private equity firms about joining as a partner focusing on realtime startups. In the early part of this decade, when many people inside AOL were still fighting the open Web, Liu launched the first AOL.com portal and grew it to 50 million users. He also relaunched the AOL Toolbar. Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors | |
| OWLE Launches Bubo; Ultimate iPhone Video Rig | Top |
| With the iPhone 3GS, the possibilities are endless. In July 2009, Harold Smith and Graham Mcbain took the iPhone 3GS, and made the first prototype of the OWLE Bubo, which we covered on CrunchGear. Now, just four months later, the OWLE Bubo is ready to ship to the public. OWLE, which stands for Optical Widgets for Life Enhancement, is aiming to making mobile video much easier, by taking the parts you use on your camcorder, and enabling you to use them on the iPhone. The Bubo comes standard with a hotshoe mount on top for LED lights, four tripod mounts and standard 37mm lens threading so that you can put your own lenses on it, in addition to the lens that the Bubo comes with. It’s been quite a journey since the first prototype of the Bubo — Harold and Graham traveled to Yahoo!’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. for iPhoneDevCamp 3, where they won the iFund “Most Promising Startup” award. The Bubo is going on sale for pre-orders starting tomorrow for $99.95, but TechCrunch readers can pre-order starting today! Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 | |
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