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Google Voice now supports MMS sent by T-Mobile subscribers

If there’s one service I’ve been intensely jealous of watching the U.S. mobile scene from the UK, it’s Google Voice. And, although Google hasn’t really been paying much attention to it recently, it’s nice to know the service is becoming more useful to more people. However unintuitive the added new features might seem, they are – at least – something. Last week, Google announced … [read full article]

T-Mobile Joins The StarStar Me Ranks, Lets You Use Your Name Instead Of Phone Number

Zoove, the folks behind the StarStar Me platform announced the availability of their StarStar service as now available to T-Mobile customers nationwide. “StarStar Me offers customers a personalized mobile phone number such as a name or favorite word and the ability to manage calls through the StarStar Me app.” In other words, you can dial **David and find me on the other end, metaphorically speaking that is. The service does work across smartphones and features phones, which … [read full article]

Wi-Fi Calling For Blackberries

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Soon, T-Mobile will be set up to allow corporate customers who use Blackberries to make calls over their office Wi-Fi connections without using up cell plan minutes (hey, this sounds familiar).  Then, as a neat trick, the call will be automatically switched to T-Mobiles network after said Blackberry user is outside of their Wi-Fi network’s range.  T-Mobile “will charge a flat monthly fee on top of cellular rates,” all in an effort … [read full article]