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Google Officially Brings Voice To Gmail

Posted by samzenpus on from the talk-away dept.

siliconbits writes "Google has finally added voice support to its popular Gmail email service which means that users will soon be able to call landlines and mobiles worldwide for free or for extremely low prices. The announcement was made at a press conference in San Francisco in front of a few selected press members."

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  1. YAY by bobstreo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    and it works in Linux with just a plugin and a browser restart

    Now where's the android client?

  2. Re:just another trip to the data mine for google by turbotroll · · Score: 5, Interesting

    no thank you.

    I have been always wondering, why is the public (over)concerned about Google mining and their users' data, but not Yahoo, Skype, Microsoft et al?

  3. Re:encrytion issues by bcmm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Skype uses a closed, secret protocol. It may or may not be properly encrypted. There may or may not be intentional backdoors.

    --
    # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.