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Google spent about $780 million today

Two acquisitions were announced today -- together totaling around $800 million dollars. This comes about a month and a half after Eric Schmidt told us that acquisitions are back on. Both acquisitions are significant -- but one cost a lot more than the other. AdMob...

Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Phone, AdMob, Gizmo5, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-11-09

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Google increases potential of Google Voice with Gizmo5 acquisition

How long before we can buy Google WiFi phones at Best Buy?NT.

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Google increases potential of Google Voice with Gizmo5 acquisition

Google's acquisition of Gizmo5 increases the potential for Google Voice to be built into other Web services, including Google Talk, Gmail or Google Wave by Sam Diaz

Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Voice, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Cloud Computing, E-mail Providers, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-13

Skype plays footsie with open source

Where to for SkypeIt's always tough to predict where something will end up in the future. Those unexpected little surprises tend to throw things off a bit. I think what Skype is trying to do is expand into a growing market, namely the Linux market. To do...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, open source, Skype Technologies S.A., Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Gizmo5 4.0.0.269 (Mac)

Formerly known as the Gizmo Project, Gizmo5 is a free Internet phone for your computer that makes calling as easy as Instant Messaging. Using best-of-breed audio codecs such as GIPS and employing media relays around the world to route calls through the most efficient path, Gizmo Project will give you...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, SIPphone Gizmo Project, Instant Messaging, VOIP, Internet, Online Communications, Telecommunications, Networking

Software downloads 2009-09-24

Gizmo5 4.0.5.395 (Windows)

Formerly known as the Gizmo Project. Gizmo5 uses your Internet connection (broadband or dial-up) to make calls to other computers. With the click of a mouse, you're connected to friends, family, and colleagues anywhere on earth. You can talk clearly, for as long as you want, for free. With inexpensive...

Tags: SIPphone, Mice, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Networking

Software downloads 2009-09-23

VOIP reaches end of its proprietary era

VOIP reaches end of its proprietary eraVoIP was never proprietary, Skype IS.VoIP is not and has not been proprietary since almost the beginning. It is Skype's implementation of VoIP that is proprietary. Both their signaling protocol and their Codecs.Most VoIP systems started out using H.323 standards and then migrated...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VioP, VoIP, SIP, Skype Technologies S.A., Asterisk

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

SIP is the future of telecommunications

SIP is the future of telecommunicationsahhh no mention of IAX(2)?IAX(2) is better than SIP... they just want to focus on what they have and not what they should be using.I cisco, but at times like this... it makes me wonder.RE: SIP is the future of telecommunicationsYep, you can buy a...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), IAX2, telecommunications, SIP, Asterisk, IAX

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Gizmo for Mobile BlackBerry version is now available

After weeks of anticipation, Gizmo Project is finally out with a BlackBerry-compatible version of its new Gizmo for Mobile Beta. After you go to www.gizmo5.com on your BlackBerry's web browser and download the product, it installs automatically. Once the installation...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Gizmo, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-19