Call any Landline, Mobile Phone anywhere from Gmail using Google Voice

Yes,now you can reach the people you care about from right inside Gmail.This service available to many more of you who use Gmail outside the U.S. by offering calling in 38 new languages around the world.Before this service only launched in  US and Canada only.Now Google expands its Google Voice Project to reach more destinations.

How to enable Google Voice in Gmail outside US:

1.To get this service You need to download Voice and Video  Plugin and restart browser after installation.

  

Google Voice Call Charges:

Google voice rates are really cheap if you are using for calling outside your country. What I liked most is calling rates for US which is just 0.01 USD from anywhere in the world.

There are no connection fees levied by Google, you just pay for what you talk. Google Voice Rates page also compares the call charges with leading Internet Telephony service ( Skype).

Calls to the U.S. or Canada placed within those countries will continue to be free at least for the rest of 2011. Calls to the U.S. or Canada placed from outside these countries will be charged $0.01per minute (or €0.01, £0.01, C$0.01 per minute). .

Credits can be added to your account to make the voice calls using Google voice.

Enable Google Voice in Google Apps:

If you’re a Google Apps user, your domain administrator must have Google Voice and Google Checkout enabled in the administrator control panel in order to be able to use this feature.

Note:At the Time of Writing this post Google not yet open this service to certain countries but will open soon.

The Top 3 Webmail Providers...

Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Windows Live Hotmail are the three most popular web based email services around but which is the largest of them all?
The last public stats, released by Comscore in September 2010, suggested that Hotmail had 362 million users, Yahoo! Mail had 273 million while Google’s Gmail was a distant third with 193 million users.
The figures would however be a lot different an year later.
 

MailChimp, the email marketing company that delivers around 2 billion emails per month, including this blog’s newsletter, analyzed the webmail domains of all their outgoing mail traffic and the results reflect quite an interesting*, if not very surprising, pattern.

Hotmail is still the king among web email providers but Gmail is quickly catching up – in fact the volume of email messages (~249.2m) that were sent to the gmail.com domain in July 2011 was very close to the Hotmail volume (~250.8m). Yahoo Mail isn’t growing at the same rate as the other two services.

The MailChimp numbers do not represent the actual user base of the various email providers but if we look at them relatively, they do give an idea of the overall trend.

[*] MailChimp uses double opt-in before adding any email address to their database and thus the numbers should mostly represent active email addresses.