‘Google, the search-engine giant, is expected on Tuesday to disclose that it will join its instant-messaging service with its popular Gmail program, the latest indication that the company has set its sights on the broader communications industry.
The new program, called Gmail Chat, will let Gmail users exchange text messages with others without having to log […]
‘Google and America Online has expanded their search and advertising alliance to include video and instant messaging, shutting out Microsoft, which had fought hard for a deal with Time Warner’s AOL unit.
America Online said Google had agreed to invest US$1 billion to take a 5 per cent stake in AOL, as part of an enhanced […]
‘Google is helping to extend an open instant messaging protocol so that instant message applications based on it will have a standard method for multimedia communications.
Google is contributing to multimedia extensions to the open Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) that will enable XMPP-based instant messaging applications to conduct sessions involving voice and video.’
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‘Google has released a set of components called Libjingle, which will allow third party applications to interoperate with Google Talk’s peer-to-peer and voice calling capabilities.’
Read more at What Libjingle means for Google Talk | IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
‘With last month’s launch of Google Talk, in a first beta version, it is going to try.
At the moment, instant messaging is being crippled by a Balkanisation of the market that is incompatible with users’ needs.
Running an instant messaging system is like being thrown back to the 1980s, when you needed a Prestel account to […]
‘GOOGLE appears to be moving into videoconferencing.
It is advertising for a senior engineer to develop a videoconferencing application to use on a global scale, according to a posting on HotJobs - a site hosted by rival Yahoo.
Search Engine Journal says there have been many rumours about videoconferencing being a big part of Google’s next move […]
Search Engine Journal today have news that MessageVine have taken Google Talk Wireless:’It was only a matter of time before someone took Google Talk wireless. MessageVine today announced the release of the first Mobile Instant Messaging solution for Google Talk, Google’s Instant Messaging and VOIP messaging system. MessageVine’s Mobile Instant Messaging client for Google Talk […]
Drunkenbatman at the Drunken Blog has an interesting post on how MSN, Yahoo and AOL will respond to the launch of Google Talk. He argues (drawing on sources that they wont reveal) that the response will be a unified one!
‘Within the last few weeks, there appears to have been a meeting between MSN, Yahoo and […]
‘Google Talk, the new instant-messaging and voice chat software unveiled Wednesday, is very much like every other product rolled out by those masters of Internet search in Mountain View: elegantly minimalist and a little quirky.
There are none of the bells and whistles found in the Big Three of instant messaging: America Online’s hugely popular Instant […]
Google Blogoscoped has published some Google Talk Tips - here is a couple of them:
‘Certain smileys, like or :-(, are recognized by Google Talk and will turn blue.
You can change the font size of the chat window, even though Google says you can’t. It worked for me by focussing either read- or write-pane, then […]