Google Voice acquires VoIP client Gizmo5
Published: 13 Nov 2009 09:25 GMT
Google confirmed on Thursday its intention to acquire Gizmo5, an internet telephony company, with plans to merge the group into the Google Voice team. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Gizmo5 is a web-based VoIP client that lets users make phone calls over the internet, similar to programs such as Skype. It is based, however, on an open standard called SIP, rather than Skype's internally developed system.
Gizmo5 works on both PCs and mobile phones, and the technology is likely to be used in some way to enhance Google Voice. Google Voice is not a VoIP client: it lets users use a single number to ring multiple phones and get voicemails transcribed into email, but it does that over existing phone networks.
For more on this story, see Google Voice acquires VoIP client Gizmo5 on CNET News.
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