Google Has Acquired Gizmo5
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Google Has Acquired Gizmo5
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#2Google Voice may finally turn into something useful... Very cool. I have always preferred Gizmo over Skype because they use open standards.
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#3Mondays. Because we're Google and we feel like buying stuff.
(See admob acquisition for 750 mil earlier today- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=931306)
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#4Google Voice may finally turn into something useful... Very cool. I have always preferred Gizmo over Skype because they use open standards.
I'm interested to see the merging of Google Talk and Google Voice. The one missing piece of the puzzle was the SIP infrastructure so you could dial out from Google Voice without using standard phone lines.
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#5This is pretty awesome. Even before the acquisition you could use a combination of Gizmo5 and Google Voice to get a free phone line, but this could make everything even more seamless.
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#6hopefully gizmo on the mac will stop sucking, I have to reinstall gizmo every few weeks because some how the binary gets corrupted and won't start. The only way I can get it to work is to do a reinstall. Other than that issue, it is great to make phone calls totally for free with google voice and gizmo.
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#7Interesting.
Direct benefits notwithstanding, Google continues to make forays into the mobile world in ways that suggest they are attempting to route around the biggest bottleneck in the whole thing: the price of network access.
It seems that sometime in the future, Google will be able to provide communication services to individuals without the requirement of leasing a non-google medium, like a cell phone or internet connection.
Such a development will make the RIAA vs. the users question seem like discussing the politics of ink distribution in the days before the printing press.
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#8This is pretty awesome. Even before the acquisition you could use a combination of Gizmo5 and Google Voice to get a free phone line, but this could make everything even more seamless.
use a combination of Gizmo5 and Google Voice to get a free phone line
Well, you could talk for free anyway. Not long after Google Voice started handing out accounts they changed the requirements so you had to have a traditional 10-digit phone number registered with the account.
I was excited by Google Voice and Gizmo because I wanted to ditch my cell phone all together (I use about 75 minutes a month). Once they added that requirement though, I couldn't.
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#9Cool, now maybe I can more easily link my SIP phones and PBXs into Google Voice.
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#10Interesting. Direct benefits notwithstanding, Google continues to make forays into the mobile world in ways that suggest they are attempting to route around the biggest bottleneck in the whole thing: the price of network access. It seems that sometime in the future, Google will be able to provide communication services to individuals without the requirement of leasing a non-google medium, like a cell phone or interne…
not so fast...net neutrality (insert evil sound effect) will be the big decider.