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Use a Google Voice phone number to keep your personal number private

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Last year I shared three things you should know about Google Voice—basically a rundown of three cool ways to use the service.

Here’s a fourth: Use it as a disposable phone number.

See, when you sign up for Google Voice, which you can do for any new or existing Google/Gmail account, you get the option of choosing a new phone number. (You can also port an existing number, but that’s not part of the discussion today.)

One of the neat things about Google Voice is that you can route calls to that number to any/all of your existing numbers (home, office, cell phone, etc.).

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Microsoft’s New Outlook Email Is An Improvement, But Not A Game Changer

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime users of Hotmail, MSN and other Microsoft email services will start noticing a big change: When they sign in to check messages, they’ll be sent to a new service called Outlook.com.

You might be thinking, isn’t Outlook the software Microsoft Corp. makes for people to use email at work? Indeed it is, but Microsoft is now adopting that brand for personal, Web-based email services as well. It’s part of a broad makeover that includes the company’s overhaul of the Windows operating system and the Office software suite.

There’s little relationship between the two Outlooks apart from the name. That’s good. The Outlook Web App I use for checking work email at home feels like an adaptation of software meant to be installed on work computers, rather than something designed from the start to play to the Web’s strengths. The consumer Outlook.com, on the other hand, feels the way Web email should. It bears more similarities with consumer-based email services, such as Google’s Gmail and Yahoo Mail, than with the corporate Outlook.

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Microsoft steps up 'Scroogle' campaign against Google with advocacy twist

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As Microsoft pushed Outlook.com out of preview mode Tuesday, analysts said the company’s “Scroogled” attack ads, which fired shots at Google’s Gmail two weeks ago, were effective.

“We all like to think that we don’t like attack ads, but the fact is, they work,” said Peter LaMotte, an analyst with Levick, a Washington-based strategic communications consultancy.

Microsoft has collected less than 10,000 signatures on its anti-Gmail petition, part of its advocacy approach in the latest “Scroogled” campaign.

Tuesday, Microsoft removed the “preview” label from Outlook.com, the company’s hope for reclaiming the top spot in the free email service wars. Microsoft is supporting the rebranding effort — Outlook.com was formerly Hotmail, a nameplate that harks back to 1996 — with an online and television advertising campaign.

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How joining Google Gmail with encryption system helps high-tech firm meet gov't security rules

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When a relatively small high-tech company with some big aerospace and defense customers wanted to adopt cloud-based email for its employees, it faced the challenge that whatever choice of cloud service it adopted, it had to meet the government's security regulations known as ITAR, or the “International Traffic in Arms Regulations.” …read more
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