Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Google buys VOIP engine behind Yahoo, AOL, WebEx, Lotus conferencing | ZDNet

Small world…

One interesting thing to note about GIPS is its customer list. On its site, GIPS touts Yahoo, IBM Lotus, AOL, WebEx and Baidu as customers. All of those companies compete with Google products. For instance, Yahoo uses GIPS VideoEngine PC product to deliver real-time voice over Yahoo Messenger. Is that really going to last when Google owns GIPS? It’s the same story for AOL Instant Messenger. Simply put, Google will own the technology powering video and voice on the biggest IM clients. On the Google Apps front, WebEx uses GIPS VoiceEngine and so does Lotus Sametime. On the China front, Baidu also uses GIPS technology.

Google buys VOIP engine behind Yahoo, AOL, WebEx, Lotus conferencing | ZDNet

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