Google Fires Shot Across VoIP Industry's Bow
Google's new VoIP service, which allows Gmail users in the U.S. and Canada to make free voice calls, had over a million calls placed through it in the first 24 hours after its debut.
Google is furthering the telecommunications industry disruption that Skype helped create, but some analysts believe that Google's ambitions may extend well beyond this market. Google has been rumored to be planning a social networking offering to compete with Facebook, and integrating voice with Gmail could be a step in that direction.
In any event, for a company that has often misfired with products that were supposed to change the industry, Google does seem to have something interesting up its sleeve here.
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