Google gives Voice to 'open standard Skype'

Google has acquired VoIP startup Gizmo5, intending to roll the company's engineers into the team that develops the telephony application/controversy magnet known as Google Voice. Whereas Gizmo5 offers Skype-like software for calling people over the interwebs, Google Voice is a special telephony thingy that lets you use a …

[Peter D'Hoye]

startup?

I've been using Gizmo for years...

[Eugene Crosser]

XMPP

"XMPP is what underpins Google Wave" -

and GTalk, in the first place...