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You Use Can Gchat In Outlook Soon
Here’s some good, good news. Microsoft is adding Google Talk (which all of you just call Gchat) support to Outlook.com. Meaning, you can use Google’s chat service right through Microsoft’s beautiful new(ish) webmail page. Awesome.
Where Do You Chat?
Real-time chat has been everywhere for, you know, forever now and has swallowed everything in its path. Integrating chat platforms and finding a way to coherently deal with texting vs. chatting has become a major issue. Other than venting here in hallowed Gizmodo chatroom posts, how do you manage all the Google chat options, Facebook chat, Skype and everything else?
Report: Google’s Unified Chat Hub Will Be Called Google Hangouts
Word on the street is that Google’s incoming unified messaging service has ditched its Babel moniker. According to a source talking to TechRadar it will hit our handsets simply called Google Hangouts, which already exists, so isn’t really new, then?
The Next Killer Feature In Smartphones
For a long time now, our smartphones have been getting more and more, well, smart. They do more things. You probably haven’t beaten your phone at chess in years. And the race to cram increasingly granular, eventually useless, features into them has defined the past few years of phone making. Except the next big waypoint won’t be some technological marvel like week-long battery life. It’s something much simpler: plain old chat.
Report: Google To Unify Chat As A New Service Called Babble
Google Talk is lightweight and fast. But Google also has G+ messenger, Hangout, and even Drive Chat. There are currently so many options across its different platforms that it can get confusing. Google Babble is apparently set to end that problem, with one unified, cross-platform chat solution, which will span across Android, iOS, BlackBerry and the cloud.
Microsoft Is Merging Skype And Windows Live Messenger In April
Ever since Microsoft acquired Skype and confirmed the end of Windows Live Messenger, a merger has been a tiny dot off on the horizon. Now Microsoft has pinned down when the two will become one.
