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Google Voice, a new Google feature designed to to consolidate a user's telephone numbers into one contact number, hasn't yet made its public debut. But Google Thursday began sending out invitations to anyone who signed up on its Google Voice waiting list, and it appears to be preparing for the full-on Google Voice launch."We are happy to share that Google Voice is beginning to open up beyond former GrandCentral users," wrote Google Voice product managers Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet in a Thursday post to the Google Blog . "If you requested an invitation on the Google Voice site or previously on GrandCentral, keep your eye out for an invite e-mail."
GrandCentral, the startup alluded to by Walker and Paquet in the post, was acquired by Google in 2007. Google Voice is based on GrandCentral's universal phone-number technology, and how it works is that when someone calls a user's Google Voice number, that user's home, mobile, work and other phones ring simultaneously. The service can