Sorry, Mr. Graham Bell.

Finally, VOIP has found its place in the world by way of GoogleVoice:

Google Voice, the new version of the GrandCentral technology Google acquired in July 2007, has the potential to make the search giant a middleman in an important part of people's lives, telephone communications. With the service, people can pick a new phone number from Google Voice; when others call it, Google can ring all the actual phones a person uses and handle voice mail.

If this promise materilizes - and I believe it will - home phones as we know them are dead. Today, they are already half-dead because the younger generation clearly prefers mobiles. But now, the good old land line will have no excuse for existence whatsoever. Over time, conferences, virtual audio/video conferences, and other means of media-based communications will be come a part of everyday business and leisure activities. GoogleVoice in combination with Android is going to be a very strong contender for #1 position in telecom applications space.