It seems like in the future (possibly nearer) that the only thing that every person will need is access to the Internet. Already you can watch TV and Movies, keep in touch with the world via Facebook and other social networks, and you can shop and buy whatever you want. There's not much need for anything else besides that.
Google, search engine giant, is now offering a service that allows you to make phone calls via the Web to both cell phones and landlines within Gmail.
This service now posts Google up as a top competitor with popular Web chat/calling service Skype. For the past two years, according to the New York Times, Gmail has offered voice and video chat, but both people would have to be at their computers. The new service will work differently, and allow the call receiver to not be at their computer.
Calls will be free to the United States and Canada, at least through the end of the year. International calls range in cost from 2 cents a minute. This service will work well for people in a spot with poor cell phone reception.
According to PC Magazine, within the first 24 hours of Google's voice calling service, it logged over a million calls.
