Recent Gizmo5 News Headlines

Virtual PBX And Gizmo5 Announce Combined Business-Class Voip Service At An Aggressive New Price Point
March 31, 2009
SAN JOSE, CALIF. (March 31, 2009) - Virtual PBX, the inventor and leading supplier of hosted business phone services, and Gizmo5, the leading standards-based consumer calling service, today announced a new collaboration that gives clients a complete business-class phone solution that offers the industry's deepest feature set at a price level well below the current industry standard.

OpenSky 2.0 SIP for Skype
March 23, 2009
I've been a vocal advocate for open standards both in music with my company MP3.com and in VOIP with Gizmo5 because open standards always give consumers more choices and ultimately better value (see: Skype Bad, Gizmo Good). MP3 has triumphed as the open standard in music and VOIP standards got a huge boost this week with two announcements. Gizmo5 launched its SIP for Skype service called OpenSky which lets any SIP device call Skype and receive their Skype calls. Ebay this week trumpeted an upcoming initiative of its own to be called Skype for SIP. These announcements are a huge boost for SIP as the open standard which will let calls move freely from any calling device or network.

Building a Bridge to Skype Island with OpenSkyXX
February 9, 2009
A few years ago I gave a talk at a tech conference and asked Skype to "tear down the walls" and allow other phone users to communicate with Skype. Yet Skype remained a castle, with its surrounding moat making it hard for others to reach it. Casting metaphor aside, this simply means many businesses and consumers are not experiencing the financial benefit of net calling.

Gizmo5 Introduces Gizmo5 for trixbox CE to Deliver Turnkey Calling Services to Businesses in Minutes, Joins Fonality's FACE Program
September 24, 2008
Gizmo5, the leading standards-based consumer calling service, today announced Gizmo5 for trixbox CE, the world's largest free and open source telephony community. Gizmo5 is now providing SIP trunk services to trixbox CE, which will help SMBs save up to 98 percent on business calls. The new offering also includes pay-as-you-go and is fully integrated with the trixbox CE open source project. The company has also joined Fonality's FACE program (Fonality Authorized Certified Ecosystem) as a Gold partner to ensure its products are optimized and compatible with the trixboxCE platform.

Instant Messaging software for Palm Treo connects users with AIM, MSN Messenger
June 19, 2007
SIPphone, Inc today announced Palm Treo users can now instant message with all major IM networks using Gizmo Project. Users will have the ability to add buddies, see who's online and send/receive messages with users from AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, GoogleTalk, iChat and dozens more networks. The program allows for importing all existing contacts with just a few mouse clicks, allowing immediate use with minimal setup time.

Gizmo Project Adds Support for AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Buddies
June 11, 2007
SIPphone, Inc. announces Gizmo Project software now supports AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger buddies. Starting today, users can see who's online and send/receive messages with contacts on these networks directly from Gizmo Project software with no additional installation. Expansion to include Yahoo Messenger, GoogleTalk and iChat contacts is planned as well. As always, Gizmo Project is a free download at gizmoproject.com

Gizmocall.Com Allows Free Calls Between Any Phone And Any Computer Worldwide
May 23, 2007
SIPphone Inc. announces a free service that lets users receive international calls from any phone worldwide. Local numbers, commonly sold for $5 to $30 per month for each number, are now being offered as a free service in over 20 countries. Using free local numbers, mobile and landline phones can directly call any computer for the price of a local call. Users can also receive calls on their mobile or landline phones using call forwarding.

Gizmo SMS Offers Free Web-Based Text Messaging To Mobile Phones Worldwide
March 07, 2007
SIPphone Inc., the makers of Gizmo Project and Gizmo Call, announced today the launch of its web-based SMS service Gizmo SMS, located at gizmosms.com. Gizmo SMS lets people easily send SMS text messages to mobile phones around the world, from any web browser, for free. No registration or account setup required.

Gizmo Project 3.0 Enables Free Calling to Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Users
February 27, 2007
SIPphone Inc. announced today the launch of its latest desktop VoIP product Gizmo Project 3.0, located at http://gizmoproject.com. Gizmo Project 3.0 introduces meta-voice capabilities, which enable free calling to Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live users. Gizmo Project 3.0 is the first VoIP software to link together multiple popular VoIP networks.

Gizmocall.com Offers Free Web-Based Calling to 150 Countries
January 30, 2007
SIPphone Inc., the makers of Gizmo Project, announced today the launch of its web-based VoIP product Gizmo Call, located at gizmocall.com. Gizmo Call lets people call any type of landline or mobile, anywhere in the world, from any web browser, for free. No traditional software download and installation is required, just a simple, lightweight plug-in for Adobe Flash that works with a web browser. No registration or account setup required.