(2009-11-15) Google Buys Gizmo

Google has bought Gizmo!

Apr'2011: As of April 3, 2011, Gizmo5 service will be discontinued... If you’re looking for a way to make inexpensive calls from your computer, you can now make phone calls right inside GMail.

• except US-only, so not helpful for Off Shoring?
  • well, actually, for that, you usually don't need to call to a voice phone, you just need voice chat VoIP on both ends. So GoogleTalk should cover that.
    • but GoogleTalk doesn't give you group video (actually, i rarely use this) or Screen Sharing.