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Google Voice is now available to the public. The free service comes with a new phone number which directs incoming calls to your mobile, home and office numbers. Shortly after the release, Google was slapped with a patent lawsuit over the service.

The Google Nexus One smartphone is finally here and you can buy it immediately. The buzz building up to it has been phenomenal to say the least. The question everyone is asking is: is this the iPhone killer? Not really. At least not in the way we have been thinking about the Google phone --...

Search giant Google (GOOG), which looks increasingly like a phone company, paid $30 million for Gizmo5, the Web-based calling startup, DailyFinance has confirmed with people familiar with the matter. The deal is done and the startup's staff has begun work integrating into the Google Voice team in...

Phones are ringing off the hook at businesses that facilitate making calls over the Internet. With the apparent resolution of the spinout of Net calls pioneer Skype several days ago has come frenzied dealmaking in the VoIP -- short for voice over Internet protocol -- space. First, Google bought...