Google Voice Founder Sets His Sights On VoIP Once Again

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The VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) game?

Is Google Voice cofounder Craig Walker getting back into the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) game? According to a recent Tweet he sent out, it looks like Walker and his team at incubator Firespotter Labs is cooking up something in the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) space. As Walker writes, “Starting to play around with a bunch of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) ideas…time to take this incubator thing into hyperdrive:).”

For background, Walker co-founded GrandCentral, a phone management service that first launched in 2006 and was acquired by Google for $50+ million in 2007. Grand Central was relaunched as Google Voice.

Walker obviously has plenty of experience in VoIP, with the creation of Grand Central as then the launch and development of Google Voice. Google Voice's Gmail integration is done over VoIP, and as my former colleague Jason Kincaid reported, Google in fact had a functional Google Voice VoIP app for Android that was developed however never released.

So is Walker developing Grand Central 2.0? Like as not. There’s after all room for improvement with Google Voice, and VoIP technologies could as well be complimentary to Firespotter’s NoshList application as so then. We’ve contacted Walker for furthermore details. Stay tuned.