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VoIP
provider SIPphone has launched a promotion which offers free calls to
any landline in Australia, as well a 59 other countries.
SIPphone is even offering free calls to mobiles in some countries,
including Canada, China, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Russia,
Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, USA
and others.
The free calling offer is available through SIPphone's Skype-like
software client called Gizmo.
The only catch in the promotion is that you have to be an "active Gizmo
user" and get your contacts to sign up for Gizmo and add their PSTN
numbers to their Gizmo profile.
Gizmo is similar to the Skype client but considerably more
feature-rich, including features like call recording and voicemail that
are extra cost add-ons for Skype. It's available for Windows, Mac OS X
and Linux.There's even a version for the Nokia
770 internet tablet.
Gizmo Project is also the first instant messaging network to be fully
interoperable with Google Talk, so you can text-chat with Google Talk
contacts via Gizmo without having to sign up for a Google Talk account
yourself (and vice versa).
Gizmo started out as a VoIP client that was more standards-compliant
than Skype: it uses industry-standard SIP protocols. However, it
attracted criticism because despite using SIP, it could only connect to
the SIPphone network.
The new version 2.0 can also connect to third-party Asterisk servers,
allowing you to setup a VoIP PABX in the office and use Gizmo as a
front-end.
adiumduck.pngFor Mac users, there's a plugin for Adium which provides
all the functionality of Gizmo via Adium.
