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Google will shut down GrandCentral on December 31
When GrandCentral evolved into Google Voice, it was only a matter of time before the old GrandCentral website went to the big page archive in the sky. Google's killing off the old, redundant site on December 31st, 2009. Why the heck is this news? After all, GrandCentral users can all upgrade to Google Voice. Well, it turns out that GrandCentral's website has something that Google Voice doesn't: your old data.In an email to GrandCentral users, Google suggested you download anything you want to save, because it's all gone at the end of the year:
GrandCentral was excellent while it lasted, but now it's time to move on and make way for Google Voice. Just make sure you do it before you run out of time!All GrandCentral accounts were upgraded to Google Voice earlier this year, but since that time, you've still been able to log-in to your GrandCentral account and listen to old messages there. You will no longer be able to log-in to your GrandCentral account after December 31. Because of this, we strongly suggest downloading any messages or contacts that you want to keep in the next 43 days.
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Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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amyhops said 5:26AM on 11-27-2009
I have had grandcentrak and now google voice from early on over 2 years now approximately. It is a great service-tremendous, but sadly the issue is when you give your grandcentrak number/google voice number while it is a number that rings every phone you set it to ring, the issue is the text-it doesn’t receive texts so that being so vital people then end up calling and prefering to use your carrier number.
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=2222539
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