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Another benefit of going to college...
...is that nice little e-mail address of yours, the one with .edu at the end. If you've got one, you're now entitled to start using Google's wonderful free Google Voice telephone service. All college kids have just been invited by Google to sign up and start using the service. I've been using it for the better part of a year. Google Voice lets you set up a unique phone number which can ring any of your other phones, collect your voice mail messages, record your phone conversations--with the other party's permission, of course--and send and receive SMS text messages. I love it. I trust my college-attending daughter will love it too, if she's got wit enough to sign up. Which, of course, she does...
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Hiawatha Bray
Hiawatha is a business reporter and columnist covering the high-tech industry for the Boston Globe business section. His weekly Tech Lab gadgets and software reviews appear in the Globe every Thursday.
