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Google Testing Voice Calling In Gmail

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.

Tootech writes "Google could be adding the ability to make phone calls from the Google Chat interface. Google is testing a Web-based service within Gmail that will allow users to place phone calls from their in-boxes. It's launched from the Google Chat window on the lower left-hand side of a Gmail page and allows users to place and receive calls from within their contacts through a user interface that strongly resembles the one used in Google Voice."

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  1. Re:Product merger perhaps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    except for buzz, where everybody turned it off because it interfered with the GMail experience.
    And BTW, wave.google.com has been a failure, wave as a technology and protocol still rocks. GMail, docs and other google products are being reworked to have wave technology under the hood, and companies are starting to use the wave protocol and its technologies to deliver rich collaboration.

    BINGO!! I've got Bingo!

  2. Re:Product merger perhaps? by duguk · · Score: 4, Funny

    BINGO!! I've got Bingo!

    Dammit! I was only waiting for 'Synergy'!

  3. Re:Product merger perhaps? by mark72005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    My card sucked, I still needed "alignment", "visibility", and "win-win"

  4. Yo Dawg by halfaperson · · Score: 4, Funny

    I heard you like to chat, so we put a chat in your chat so you can chat while you chat.

    --
    Jesus had a UNIX beard.
  5. Sure, Confuse the kids by boristdog · · Score: 1, Funny

    Kids today all think that their phones are basically just for text messages, not voice calls.

    Now they'll think e-mail is for voice calls, not text messages.

    What's next? Using the refrigerator to cook food and the microwave to store it?