This week’s vein of Online Ore can be found at http://google.com/voice

Google Voice is a free online service that allows you to use a single telephone number to connect with every one of your phones (or any portion of them that you choose).  It also has voicemail functions that allow you to create custom messages for known callers and will automatically transcribe incoming voice mail so that it can send a copy to your in-box.

There are, however, limits to what Google Voice can do.  Google Voice will not automatically disconnect from a phone when you …

If you are unfamiliar with Google Voice, it is a new online telephone routing service available for public beta testing. In order to enroll in the service you must request an invitation at https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/

The Good:

• Google Voice lets you set up a single telephone number that will simultaneously forward to any number of other telephone lines.
• When adding a telephone line to your Google Voice account, you must demonstrate that you can pick up and answer on the line.
• Once a line has been added to your Google Voice account, you can route your calls out through Google Voice so …
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