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Microsoft Acquires VoIP Company Teleo
by Arie Slob
Hello Windows users,
Microsoft this week announced it has acquired Teleo Inc., a provider of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) software and services that enable the placement of phone calls from PCs to traditional phones and that deliver this technology in unique ways through a variety of software and Web applications.
"Teleo has great technology to deliver superior VoIP quality and an excellent overall customer experience," said Blake Irving, corporate vice president of the MSN Communication Services and Member Platform group at Microsoft. "This acquisition opens up infinite opportunities for Microsoft to enable even more relationship-centric communications experiences for our customers in the future."
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, Teleo is a privately held company whose initial planned service offering, also called Teleo, and was designed to allow customers to use their PC to make phone calls to cell phones, regular phones or other PCs. Through its integration with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Internet Explorer, the Teleo service was designed to facilitate click-to-call dialing of any telephone number that appears on-screen, for example through a Web site or via search results or e-mail.
Microsoft is expected to use this technology with solution offerings to MSN Messenger and other MSN services. Microsoft's MSN Messenger at one point actually had PC to PSTN connectivity, but the service was rolled back.
The deal accelerates Microsoft's VoIP capabilities and sets the stage for a fall showdown in the VoIP over Instant Messaging (IM) space. Both AOL and Yahoo! are expected to launch their respective services this fall as well. Yahoo! last June acquired VoIP to PSTN play Dialpad Communications and will be rolling those features into its renamed Yahoo! Messenger with Voice IM client.
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