Google Voice’s Secret Weapon @ TechCrunch

We’ve confirmed that a very small number of people have ported their existing numbers to Google (Google uses Level3 to handle phone numbers). In the U.S. it’s possible to port any phone number to another service provider - even a mobile number to a voip provider like Level3... That means you can switch your mobile number to Google and then just use whatever device you happen to have in your hand to receive calls. That’s an extremely powerful feature for Google Voice.

Bezos: We've got issues with Google Book Search @ c|net

In a court battle rife with twists, turns, and delays, Google has been attempting to push forward its Book Search initiative, which could potentially give the Mountain View, Calif., tech giant exclusive access to digital editions of some out-of-print books. That could, as Levy pointed out, get in the way of Amazon's goal of offering every book ever printed in every language on the Kindle and its new, bigger Kindle DX sibling. And it sounds like that's where Amazon has some beef.

Amazon has some beef? I'm not sure she knows what those words mean. In fact, I'm not sure I know what those words mean, but when they're strung together like that, I have all these doubts.

In all seriousness, I hate phones, and I don't know why I'm surprised that Google's got my back on that. They gotta hate phones, too, so it's all just been a matter of time. Next up: fix TV. I don't understand why I have to work around someone else's schedule. Chop chop, Google.

they live is one of the greatest cinematic experiences in history, and google agrees with me on that