New Google VoIP service in 2010
Google’s Vice President of Product Management Brad Horowitz has recently stated that he wasvery enthusiastic about Google’s acquisition of Gizmo5. Gizmo5 brings technological know-how to Google in the area of VoIP. Google’s VoIP service Google Talk has struggled recently, with it now being expected that Google Talk will be enhanced with Gizmo5 technology.
It is now expected that Google Voice will now:
Include tools as automatic voicemail transcription, SMS support, conference calling, and low-cost international calling to it’s existing 1.4 million users.The Google Voice subscription total pales in comparison to the nearly 500 million users Skype enjoys worldwide, but unlike Skype, Google Voice users must have an existing phone carrier to use the service.
Google acquired Gizmo5 in November 2009, a maker of so-called softphone software that will enable Google Voice to operate like Skype by letting users place calls via the Web from one PC to another or from a PC to a landline or mobile phone.
In addition, with VoIP termination expertise from Gizmo5 it is quite possible that Google can finally compete not just with SkypeOut, but can become a full phone service provider like Vonage.
2010 will be an interesting year for VoIP and I have no doubt Google will have some interesting VoIP news up their sleeves.
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