CNET News Daily Podcast: Listening in on Google Voice

Google has a new plan for how people interact with their phone service. Step one: automatically transcribed voice mails.

Leslie Katz Former Culture Editor

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Leslie Katz

March 12, 2009 1:16 p.m. PT

Google on Thursday unveiled a service called Google Voice, which has the potential to make the search giant a middleman in an important part of people's lives, telephone communications. What does it do? CNET News intern Erik Palm asked reporter Stephen Shankland.

Plus, what went down during the Palm Pre Webcast? Unfortunately, not so much. That, and more of the day's headlines, on Thursday's CNET News Daily Podcast.

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Today's stories:

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