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Grand Central from Google-Got my number!

Monday, August 27th, 2007

www.grandcentral.com - I registered for the beta a few months back and finally got my invite! Even though Grand Central only offered phone numbers in the US, I was still able to register for a beta account with a 310 area code. Setting up was simple and straight forward. I was up and running in about 10 minutes( took me 8 minutes to browse through the numbers and decide on one :P ) (more…)

Google Buys GrandCentral Communications for 50 million

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

At first glance at the headlines, I thought they bought technology that dealt with the railway transportation system.  But my assumption could be farther from that.

Grand Central is a US technology company based in California that allows you to have one phone number for life.
Basically, that phone number will forward to your cell phone, home phone, hotel phone, etc. There is also a centralized
voice mail system and it’s all tied with via web based administration. (more…)