Technology For Agents

I signed up for a Google Voice invite a couple of months ago and received my invitation after waiting 2-3 weeks.  Google Voice is pretty awesome, in theory – like LOR, it’s “one number to rule them all.”  You give out one phone number and then pick which phones you want it to ring – office, mobile, home, etc…  They also allow you to choose your new number.  So, after spending 3-4 hours (literally) choosing my number, I was ready to rock.

But…I don’t want to change my phone number.

The one flaw in Google Voice is that you can’t yet port a number in.  So, if you’re like me and have had your current mobile number for 7+ years, you probably don’t want to go through the hassle of telling everyone that it’s changed.  If you do go through the hassle of telling everyone it’s changed, then you’re going to have 2+ voice mailboxes to check until the late adapters finally remember to call your new number.

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You might have heard about the latest scare in Apple’s world. A hack was revealed that could literally hijack your iPhone and take it over. The attacker could turn your phone off, call anyone, and open apps (pretty much take it completely over) without you knowing.

All with a text message that could be as simple as a square looking character.

Apple was on the ball and released an update today before anyone really expected it. Make sure you plug in you iPhone and update to the latest version to make sure you’re not haunted and need an exorcism to rid your iPhone of poltergeists.

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Probably the closest contender to the iPhone to date (one that’s actually innovating beyond some of the iPhone features), is the Palm Pre.

Sprint just announced that the Pre is going exclusive to them alone, and to hit the shelves nationwide on June 6th for $199 (with contract and rebates).

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Today, Apple had a conference summing up the upcoming changes to their iPhone operating system – dubbed version 3.0.  In this new update, you can look forward to a laundry list of features that were notoriously absent from the popular handset from Apple.

Among the long list of new features, the most popular in my opinion are:

MMS - You can finally send picture messages via text messaging.

Copy and Paste – I personally never thought this hindered me from using my iPhone , but when the update gets released I’ll probably wonder how I lived without it.

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