The Gizmo5 getting purchase by Google saga has been going on for quite some time now. Google originally announced the purchase of the Gizmo5 service back in November of 2009 and almost immediately welcomed all by closing off new signups. Since that time there was a little chatter about better Google Voice support coming in more »

It appears as if Google has been working on merging, or at least integrating their recent purchase of Gizmo5 with Google Voice. A new update is available for those that have the Gizmo5 app installed on their computer that will bring the version up to Gizmo5 4.0 v 269. According to the details, the update more »

Sure, we all knew about the Google acquisition of VoIP provider Gizmo5, and we were able to speculate about things that would happen. But now, courtesy of the Google Voice Blog we are getting a look at the first moves. And in typically Google fashion, they have both officially welcomed Gizmo5 and also shut it more »

In an announcement that came earlier this morning, Google has purchased Gizmo5. Now for those unfamiliar, Gizmo5 is a VoIP provider similar to Skype. Of course, you may be thinking, Google already has Google Voice, and that is a good point. However, that may only be one piece of the puzzle because while Google Voice more »

Normally, this is my place to poke fun at the idiocy that comes out of our tech industry, but today I’m going to poke holes at telecoms that find it appropriate to charge us $20,000 in our monthly phone bill without so much as a courtesy call. SMS has become a cash call and unsuspecting folks are finding the surprise bill too much to handle. Assembled here is how you can stick it to the SMS man.

Gizmo Project is offering free outgoing calls to 60 countries (provided that the receiver is also a Gizmo user). Of course, included in the service is free 3-way-calling and voicemail. Of course not everything is free (they’ve got to make money somehow) – for incoming calls your going to need to pay for a Call more »