Google's Gmail moves towards free phone calls

San francisco: Google is adding a free e-mail feature that may persuade more people to cut the cords on their landline phones.

The service unveiled on Wednesday enables US users of Google's Gmail service to make calls from microphone-equipped computers to telephones anywhere in the world.

Up next: mobile video calls to TVs, PCs

June 16, 2010

SINGAPORE:

Making video calls from a mobile phone to TV sets or computers will be the next frontier for the telecoms industry, the head of Internet telephony pioneer Skype said on Tuesday.