{"id":51435,"date":"2012-05-31T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T10:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=51435"},"modified":"2012-05-31T12:43:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T10:43:53","slug":"google-voice-lets-users-screen-calls-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/51435-google-voice-lets-users-screen-calls-wip.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Voice lets users screen calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google\u2019s<\/a> phone service app, Google Voice, can now screen calls prior to answering.<\/p>\n<p>The new update allows the app to prompt callers to state their name, and thereafter only allowing the call to go through to the receiver\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n<p>The added feature is primarily aimed at screening unknown and private numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many users have asked us for controls aimed at people who are NOT in their address book,&#8221; Google software engineer Tom Ford wrote on the Google Voice blog. &#8220;So today, we&#8217;re adding two groups of callers for Google Voice users.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The update also allows users to customise their greetings and voice mails for each contact or group.<\/p>\n<p>Google also recently announced that their Google+ \u2018circles\u2019 feature is making it\u2019s way onto Google Voice, allowing users to group their contacts into respective \u2018circles\u2019, such as family, friends and acquaintances.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Google Voice BLog\" href=\"http:\/\/googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/two-new-groups-of-callers-to-help-you.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google Voice Blog<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest feature for Google Voice grants greater control<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":51441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3344,12109,12113,12111],"class_list":["post-51435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-google-voice","tag-google-voice-app","tag-google-voice-update","tag-screen-calls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51445,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51435\/revisions\/51445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}