Google Voice for iPhone has made the leap from a web app to a native app.

Google has made its VoIP service, Google Voice - previously available by invitation only - available to anyone in the USA, but this is but the next step on a path that threatens Skype and many many other industry players.

Six months after Apple rejected iPhone apps that enabled the smartphone to access Google Voice, Google has released a browser-based mobile app to get around the rejection.

Google is poised to extend its domination of search to the mobile phone market with news an official Google phone may be on sale as early as January 5th. The handset will be for sale unlocked and without contract and will use data, not voice.

Twenty members of the U.S. Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, have asked the Federal Communications Commission to look into Google's blockage of Google Voice calls to certain exchanges. The request is in support of a complaint sent to the FCC a couple of weeks ago by AT&T.

Verizon Wireless - the largest mobile network operator in the US with 290 million customers - has given the Android smartphone platform a major boost by teaming up with Google to offer Android-based smartphones to customers on its CDMA EV-DO network.

Dr Eric Schmidt, CEO at Google, has been a Director of Apple for almost exactly three years - until today. As he steps down we ask if this means that Apple and Google are now officially at war?

Three iPhone apps that offered mobile access to Google Voice have been rejected from the App Store, including two that had been available for months already.

Google Voice, the company's phone and voicemail management service, has begun issuing invitations to users who had previously requested an account.