Gizmo Call brings VoIP to the browser

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danmcgill @ Jan 30th 2007 10:18PM

So in the vein of strange coincidences.

Today I noticed a process on my machine for the first time "mdnsresponder.exe" Bonjour Service.

I never installed it. I have never heard of it. So I do a web search and it is an Apple provided service. OR, maybe not. It is something called "Gizmo Project". Or is it Apple? Very weird. Little network traffic, no big deal, it's Apple, I leave it alone for the time being.

Then I take a look at Endgadget & a fully -browser based- VOIP mini-App. (do you mean, like a widget thing?) called "Gizmo Project" announces free calling FOREVER to Landlines. All over the place. And "how can they monetize that?", and "if installing an APP is too much for ya." And Steve Jobs gives you WIFI, and a -full browser- and terms that floor the cingular people and everybody's complaining about how the iPhone isn't nearly the "game changer" they thought. And he gives you a -full browser- and won't let you install Apps? Wait, Gizmo thing interops with Google Talk(?) Windows Live(?!) (is yahoo in there?) & Bonjour, Apple, Gizmo monstrosity thing all bundled up installs with iTunes on my WinPC and every MAC and....

This is obviously *highly* (exrememly) speculative, but maybe the boy genius on stage in Cupertino said less than everything. And the Gizmo Project guys utterly disruptive game plan to stop the charging for (time * distance called) and bring on flat rate phone service is just the bugger that Jobs would dive in for.

PS: as a bonus, look at the "bonjour" apple page. What did Gates say ab out "getting there" on the Daily Show? If you can link all of this locally like Apple is stating, through Bonjour, and have "Bonjour running in your phone and everybody's phone and everybody's PC? does Jobs statement about bringing down "Cingular's whole west coast operation" start to make (some) sense?

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henrrrik @ Feb 1st 2007 7:53AM

mdnsresponder.exe is part of Bonjour which is installed with iTunes. It's what iTunes uses to discover other computers running iTunes on your LAN.

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