Google’s grand cloud plans: VoIP coming to Google Voice
By Tarry Singh at 1 January, 2010, 11:09 am
A Google executive said the company has only scratched the surface of what it plans to do with Google Voice, the phone management application that lets users route calls to all of their phones from one unique number.
Google Voice, which includes such tools as automatic voicemail transcription, SMS support, conference calling, and low-cost international calling, is free and has more than 1.4 million users.
That pales in comparison to the nearly 500 million users Skype enjoys worldwide, but unlike that popular VOIP app, Google Voice users must have a phone carrier to use the service. However, that will change in 2010.
Google in November acquired Gizmo5, a maker of so-called softphone software that will enable Google Voice to operate like Skype by letting users place calls via the Internet from one PC to another or from a PC to a landline or mobile phone.
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It’s just increasingly scary how Google are routing all our communications thorugh their services. If they want to cut us all off, they soon can. It’s frightening.
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