More than a million Voice calls were racked up at Gmail by the time the feature was a day old, according to Google spokesman Randall Sarafa.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Gmail was infused with Voice, a Google telecommunications service that lets people use a single telephone number for all of their phones.<\/p>\n
A “call phones” option in Gmail chat enables people to make, screen or field Voice calls at their computers using Gmail.<\/p>\n
Google made the service available to anyone in the United States in late June, but it wasn’t until this week that it combined the Internet telephony feature with Gmail.<\/p>\n
Along with letting users have one phone number that rings at all of their telephones, the service converts voice mail or text messages into email and allows for toll-free calls to the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n
Voice boasts competitively low rates for international calls and is a challenge to global Internet telephony star Skype.<\/p>\n