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Google bought GrandCentral, webphone company

Posted on 04.07.2007 at 06:40 in Tech News by Martin

Google’s buy of the small Unified Communications (UC) tech company GrandCentral is a sign that voice communications will soon become a big part of Gmail. The deal was announced yesterday. In a nutshell, GrandCentral is a service that lets you integrate all of your various phone numbers (home, work, cell) and voice mailboxes into one central account with one phone number. You access this account either via a Web interface or with any phone. All of your voicemails are there, and you can either listen to them or read them, or forward them to someone else. Google could build the unified communications and call-handling functionality of GrandCentral into its existing voice (and IM) product Google Talk. That would certainly be an improvement of Google Talk.

Google could also build GrandCentral into Gmail, as most analysts are predicting today. I think it’s both — Grand Central will be used as the glue that finally bonds Gmail and GTalk together. With the voice and IM from GTalk, unified communications and call-handling intelligence from GrandCentral built into Gmail, Gmail becomes a fairly robust unified communications app. It begins to look and act like the Live Communications Server platform that Microsoft is building with Nortel for enterprises. Users could manage and communicate with their buddies/contacts from one interface. Phone contact lists would be merged with e-mail contact lists. Instructions could given on how to handle calls from certain phone numbers in the same e-mail apps are given rules for handling mail from certain e-mail addresses. I guess more people would appreciate GTalk support for MSN, AIM and other clients, but this may be still a welcomed change.

Source: NYTimes, PCWorld 

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  1. stormyone
    July 4th, 2007 | 06:55

    Google is the future!

  2. Martin
    July 4th, 2007 | 08:12

    stormyone shut the fuck up nigga

  3. realblade
    July 4th, 2007 | 08:18

    @ Martin : read some rules on how to behave, and also read the post made by the staff.

    Google will make this company bigger, as it has done with YouTube and others.

  4. ganjafarmer
    July 4th, 2007 | 12:35

    there great! mmmm, they also are one of the major company who have done deals with the MAN, they will have all info on you as to email, im and voice…. so dont say or write anything that you wish to remain silent… as you never know who may knock on your door….

  5. johnny
    July 4th, 2007 | 12:57

    ROFLMAO MARTIN

    That cracked me up so badddd.

    Nevertheless, I’m starting to be afraid of Google.

    Next thing you’ll hear “Google buys FBI,” and you’ll be able to search a person’s criminal record online for free -_-

  6. Transit Shawn
    July 4th, 2007 | 15:53

    “Next thing you’ll hear “Google buys FBI,” and you’ll be able to search a person’s criminal record online for free -_-”

    that would be cool

  7. mark
    July 4th, 2007 | 16:22

    This article reminds me of this one:

    http://www.profy.com/2007/07/03/is-google-the-microsoft-of-the-internet/

  8. Bobby
    July 4th, 2007 | 20:07

    I LOVE GOOGLE man! Just hope it doesn’t go the wrong way against the people and customers. So far so good!

  9. 420
    July 4th, 2007 | 20:44

    Google…silently taking over…

  10. howiefeltersnatch
    July 5th, 2007 | 05:00

    I AM RICH, RICH, RICH, LOOK AT THE MARKET, TICKER CODE GOOL, I HAVE $100,000.00 IN STOCK IN GOOGLE, AND GROWING, SWEET, EVERYONE SHOULD GET THIS NOW!

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