Thursday, August 5, 2010

Google Acquires Gizmo5



Google has been working on a revolutionary VoIP system known as Google Voice for some time now. Available as a beta version to invited guests only (similar to the way Gmail was first introduced), Google Voice is in its initial testing stages before a major rollout to the public.

The latest news surrounding the new service is that Google has acquired internet telephony company Gizmo5 in order to merge the two to enhance the Google Voice service. Gizmo5 is a Skype-like web based VoIP client, which differs only in the fact that it is set on SIP (an open standard) rather than an internally developed system as Skype follows.

Currently, Google Voice is not a VoIP service. Rather, it is a way to consolidate multiple phone numbers into a single number which can be dialed out from as well. And it also offers other features such as transcribing voicemails into emails which can be viewed from anywhere with internet access. However this is all done through existing phone networks, perhaps the introduction of Gizmo5 would add a VoIP method of calling for Google Voice users. There is no information on how Gizmo5 will be used in Google Voice as of yet, and no new users can request to sign up for Google Voice until these changes are made.

Google - Go

Google has introduced its very own programming language known as 'Go.' The goal with Go is to combine faster application development with simpler coding. One could label it a combination of C++ and Python, as it serves as a systems language but is much faster for development like Python. Being a strong believer and supporter of open source, Google has released Go as an open source coding language so that developers may contribute and improve it in this vital introductory stage

Developers claim that the language makes them more productive than while using any other language out there today. Because the code is compiled almost instantly, but runs at the same speed as C, Go outdoes the other languages currently in use. Although it has not yet been used in any publicly available Google applications, Google programmers state that it is created to meet their application's needs of reaching a large user base running parallel programs on the side.

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