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louboutinGoogle Inc. needs to add more mobile capabilities and support

for business customers to its new Internet-calling service to compete with

Skype Technologies SA and rival Web-phone providers, analysts said.

Google’s Gmail, the third-largest e-mail site with 186 million users

worldwide, added a feature this week that lets users make voice calls to a

wireless or land-line phone from a computer, the company said in a blog post.

Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free at least until yearend. Other calls

will range from 2 cents to $4.99 a minute, depending on the country.

Google dropped $3.64 to $450.98 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock

Market. The shares have declined 27 percent this year.

Corporate applications, which Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt

identified last year as a potential billion-dollar business for the company,

may be Skype’s focus going forward while Google has concentrated more on

consumers, said Will Stofega, a program director at technology researcher IDC

in Framingham, Massachussetts.
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The service lacks features that would help Google make deep inroads in a market

dominated by Skype, said Jayanth Angl, an analyst at Info-Tech Research Group

in London, Ontario. It’s not yet accessible via Google’s package of business

software and users can’t use the calling feature from mobile phones — an area

where Google has made strides with its Android software.
“Integration with a lot of applications will tip the balance in favor of

Google,” Stofega said in an interview.
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louboutin Google Inc. offered consumers another reason to ditch their
traditional landlines Wednesday by unveiling a service that lets them make free
phone calls through its popular e-mail program.
The Mountain View search giant is allowing U.S. users to place free calls
domestically and to Canada through its Web-based Gmail service, using their
computer’s built-in speaker and microphone, or a headset.
It’s the latest in a series of additions to Gmail that are increasingly
transforming the service into an all-in-one communications tool where people
can manage contacts, e-mail, chats, video conferencing and now phone calls.
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services such as Skype or Vonage for years. But the Gmail packaging and
pricing might be different enough to grab customers from both traditional
A call to the Telecommunication Industry Association trade group wasn’t
returned before press time.
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outlet Skype has shown that Internet calling can be a profitable
business. The Luxembourg company, which eBay Inc. sold to private investors
last year, earned $13 million on $406 million in revenue during the first six
months of this year. It filed for a $100 million initial public offering this
month.

Google began offering its new service on Wednesday, and it should be available
nationwide by the weekend. Google hopes eventually to release it
internationally, though it did not say when that would happen.

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unnamed service into its other products to further boost its appeal – for
communications possible,” she said. ”It doesn’t replace all calling as we know

it, but for certain applications, it’s definitely something you really want.”