Microsoft buys Teleo
p2pnet.net News:- Global monopolists Bill and the Boyz have signalled their intent to ultimately gain effective control of the burgeoning VoIP business with the acquisition of start-up Teleo Inc
“Skype is the current market leader in Internet telephony, also called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP,” says Reuters. “It has 51 million registered users and more than 2 million customers who pay for services like voicemail and connections with outside phone numbers. Google, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo all offer voice calls between computers, but not to outside phone lines.”
Reuters says Yahoo purchased an Internet telephony company called Dialpad earlier this year, with plans to offer inbound and outbound phone call capabilities that are similar to Teleo’s, and, “Analysts who follow VoIP have long predicted that Microsoft might buy Teleo, in part because Teleo’s service is closely integrated with Microsoft products like Outlook and Internet Explorer.”
The story has Microsoft global messenger product manager Will Collins saying the company wants to integrate Teleo’s offerings into its products by the end of 2005 and that “Microsoft may add ‘click-to-call’ features to Outlook or Internet Explorer, so that users can automatically call a phone number by clicking on it”.
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Reuters – Microsoft expands Internet calling, August 31, 2005
