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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Google Voice Tab Missing from My Gizmo5

A few days after Google confirmed the acquisition of Gizmo5, I logged on to my Gizmo5 account and noticed the Google Voice tab is no longer there. What gives?? I guess Google is now busy integrating Google Voice, Google Talk and Gizmo5 to give us a new voice portal. You could call it "Skype on steroid". :)

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Monday, November 09, 2009

Google Has Acquired Gizmo5

Sources at Tech Crunch have confirmed that Google has acquired Gizmo5. It looks like talks between Skype and Gizmo5 went to a dead end last month and Google saw the opportunity and snatched up the peer-to-peer VoIP startup company. Gizmo5 is based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and can interoperate with other SIP-based networks directly, including the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Gizmo5 has the service features, CallOut/CallIn, available at a fee. Maybe, when Google integrates Google Voice with Gizmo5, these features will be free. But we all know there is no such thing as free lunch. Google will serve up their ad network in your so-called voice portal like they do with Gmail.

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