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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Enter the dragon

In a move that better positions Google to compete with Yahoo!'s Messenger capabilities, the search giant announced today it now has a VoIP offering.

The service, dubbed Google Talk allows GMail users to establish free PC to PC calls, providing their computer is already outfitted with speakers and a mic, now commodity peripherals on late-model PCs.

Speculation that Google was planning just such a move has made the rounds of the usual tech publications since almost eight months ago.

PCMag has the full story here.

posted by Sean Wolfe at 12:50 PM

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