It's official, Google buys Gizmo5 to provide PC to phone calls
Gizmo5 offers a variety of tools that let users make cheap calls from a PC to a phone, or free calls from computer to computer. Google says that Gizmo5's engineers will be joining the Google Voice team. The company isn't announcing exactly what that means in terms of new features yet. But considering Google Voice currently lets you screen, receive, and record calls, I'd be shocked if Google and Gizmo5 weren't planning to add the ability to make calls.
For now, Gizmo5 has stopped accepting new user registrations, but current customers will be able to continue using the service. The same thing happened when Google acquired GrandCentral a few years ago to create the service now known as Google Voice.
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dave.ward said 10:37PM on 11-12-2009
I just checked my gizmo5 account and they took the google voice support out of their settings. You can now forward to google talk and replaced with google talk. I wonder what happens now?
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dan said 4:20AM on 11-13-2009
this is terrible for me. my adwords account was banned from google and now i cant even use their payment system for anything. Thanks, now i can only use skype
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jfjb said 2:05PM on 11-13-2009
has anyone heard about globalization yet?
Hello !!! Anyone here?
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