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Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« on: August 26, 2010, 17:42 »
Google is taking on internet telephone companies like ***pe by allowing users to call from its free web-based email service.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11092212

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Re: Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2010, 17:49 »
One step closer to world domination. :)
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Re: Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2010, 18:08 »
They can't have many to go.  :nerves:
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Re: Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2010, 18:13 »
Worrying, isn't it. :(
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Re: Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2010, 19:08 »
No.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is readily adopted.

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Re: Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2010, 20:32 »
 :hee-hee:

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Re: Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2010, 00:57 »
its pretty cool stuff.
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Re: Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2010, 01:00 »
love that s-k-y was blocked in skype .... edit: wait a second did you do that on purpose clive?
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Re: Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2010, 01:23 »
I think he did. ;D
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Re: Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2010, 02:17 »
I would much prefer Google to rule the world than someone elected by the yanks!

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« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2010, 02:50 »
 :laugh:
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Re: Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2010, 11:14 »
Is there a difference, Dave?  ;D
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Re: Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2010, 11:52 »
Who cares who pulls the strings?  The marionettes still dance at the puppeteers behest.
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« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2010, 11:57 »
Haven't we always.
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Re: Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2010, 13:27 »
love that s-k-y was blocked in skype .... edit: wait a second did you do that on purpose clive?

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