Can Google Talk Knock Skype Out of the Ring?

Skype is incredibly entrenched, but Google Talk has some real advantages.

By  VoipPlanet.com Staff | Aug 31, 2010
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"Skype is mostly used by business people all over the world to communicate, share files, make online presentations, etc. and it is the core support of many applications to facilitate virtual meetings," writes Pablo Valerio on the Technorati blog.

"But Google has made a significant step to grab a piece of the pie in Unified Communications. Two months ago I wrote an article about Google Voice being available to everyone, for free. Google Voice allows you to get an unique phone number for all your communications. It can be a local number in any area code in the US, and you can forward the number to all your phones (home, office, cell, etc.)," Valerio writes

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