Google looking for providing VOIP facility

Finally some good is coming of Google’s acquisition of Gizmo5. GMail’s chat application already supports voice and video chatting, and was #-Link-Snipped-#. #-Link-Snipped-# that Google will also offer the ability to make calls to phone numbers from the GMail interface.
Google is currently also running a limited preview of it’s Google Voice service, which assigns you a free Google number which you can connect with your all your current phone numbers to have one universal phone number. Not only can this phone number be connected with up to 6 other phone numbers, any calls made to this number will also be automatically transcribed. As you result you can actually search through your Google Voice interface for conversations you have had with others or SMS messages sent to or from it.
This could mean that Google Voice, which is quite similar interface-wise to <a href="https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/06/google-voice-to-integrate-with-gmail-as.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Google Voice to Integrate with Gmail as a VoIP Service</a> instead of being a separate service.


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  • Ankita Katdare

    Ankita Katdare

    @abrakadabra • Aug 26, 2010

    Google Wave and Google Buzz may have had troubles attracting usage, but the new ability to place calls from Gmail appears to have caught on quickly.

    "Over 1,000,000 calls placed from Gmail in just 24 hours!" Google tweeted Thursday.

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