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Making free phone calls just got easier through Google(www.google.com) (so long we all remember that “free” is not really free, but subsidized through someone else’s money) via “Voice Calls from Gmail.” More specifically, you need a Gmail account and calls through your computer to American and Canadian numbers are free through “at least” January 2011. [...] Last week, Google officially ‘fessed up to buying Gizmo5 for an “undisclosed amount.” Now everyone is falling all over themselves to spin this as the Greatest Thing since sliced bread. Excuse me, did everyone forget that it took Google a YEAR before it got its act together with Google Voice? Don’t expect this to [...] According to TechCrunch, Google has shelled out around $30 million in cash to scoop up Gizmo5. Of course, the rumor mill last month had Gizmo5 being bought by Skype as a SIP backup plan if they couldn’t get JoltID and various other proprietary technologies secured. The timing of this rumor/impending announcement is, shall we say, interesting [...] Apparently, someone or someones is interested in pumping Vonage stock this week. Or it may be some people are drinking the Kool-Aid because the stock has gone from under 50 cents a share to over $2 bucks in a weeks time. That whole 300 percent lift gets stock gurus all hot and sweaty… Frost & Sullivan [...] Can we just cut to the chase and allow VoIP apps on the iPhone already, regardless of who does them and what network they use? AT&T has apparently ‘ fessed up that, why yes, the iPhone deal does block VoIP apps from using its cellular network, but VoIP over Wi-Fi is somehow OK. And Apple is still [...] Apple decides to pull the plug off of Google Voice-related apps, supposedly at the request (or a wink and a nod) from AT&T, because the App allows free text messaging and two cent per minute international calls. The Federal Communications Commission decides this Isn’t Right and has launched an investigation of sorts. So the latest showdown [...] Over at his blog, Andy Abramson is reporting that Gizmo5 is testing a way for its users to make free U.S. outbound calls using Google Voice from any SIP device. GizmoVoice is the latest mashup service that Gizmo5 has pulled together, leveraging its pieces with other people’s pieces/services for relatively no/low cost. Users of GizmoVoice should [...] As I noted last week, Google Voice is going to make life difficult for Skype — not traditional carriers. Business Week seems to be in line with my general thinking in a piece out this morning — but gets confused on the details. Where the Business Week “gets it”– 1) Google’s ubiqulity and many many linked-together apps [...] Forget all this crap about Google Voice being “your next phone company.” It’s Skype that is going to have some issues. The Goog was brainwashing, showing off its latest Google Voice apps to Om Malik yesterday, with Google Voice service for BlackBerry and Android clients available. Integration with GV and address book, cheap long distance calls, [...] After two weeks of hype and rumors, Google Voice is starting to hand out phone numbers to its waiting list. Although, after yesterday’s “Today” show segment, the company might not have had a choice. I guess I am suffering from Google-burnout, between the hype for Google Voice, how Google is supposed to respond to Bing, Chrome, [...] |
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