Google introduces phone services

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 12, 2009 10:22 PM EDT
BBC News; By Maggie Shiels
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Google has strengthened its mobile services with the debut of a service called Voice that could be a challenge to Skype and other phone firms. It lets customers make cheap international calls and gives them a speech-to-text feature for voicemail. The services are available thanks to Google's acquisition of phone firm GrandCentral which gives users a lifelong universal phone number. "This could be big. Google is seen as disruptive," said analyst Jon Arnold.

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What's the underlying tech? Sander_Marechal 7 642 Mar 13, 2009 5:29 PM

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