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Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: there’s a report that Google is considering either launching or shutting down a messaging app. 9to5Google said that based on a “source familiar with the product’s internal roadmap,” Google Hangouts as a consumer product will come to an end in 2020. Whether or not that holds up […]
Google is doubling the number of participants that can chat simultaneously through Hangouts Meet, the G Suite videoconferencing platform.Read More
Enlarge / Google Hangouts Chat running on a laptop. (credit: Google) Slack, Stride, HipChat—workplace chat apps that integrate with various project management and collaboration services are all the rage. It’s surprising, then, that Google hasn’t jumped on board yet. Workers are using Google Hangouts in offices all over the world, but the company doesn’t offer […]
GETTY Chill out at Croatia’s Stiniva Cove on the island of Vis this summer CROATIA Meryl Streep, Colin Firth – and Cher? Her guest appearance is one of several changes in this summer’s movie sequel to Mamma Mia! Instead of Greece, filming was on the away-from-it-all island of Vis, a two-hour ferry ride from the Croatian […]
It took a while, but Google Hangouts has finally followed in Facebook Messenger’s footsteps and started taking advantage of iOS 10’s Callkit. That means calls you receive on Hangouts will appear as regular voice calls on your iPhones’ lock screen — but only if you want them to. Callkit gives VoIP services the ability to […]
Welcome to your new Hangout. Google continues to shake up its messaging tools with the upcoming removal of a popular feature from Hangouts. According to an email sent to GSuite administrators and subsequently posted to Reddit, Google will remove the SMS messaging feature from Hangouts on May 22. Anyone using Hangouts as both a Google messaging […]
After announcing their new AI-powered chat platforms Allo and Duo last September, Google seems to be sunsetting the old and busted Hangouts in favor of their new hotness. Several other announcements seemed to confirm that strategy, including a Hangouts app specially tooled for enterprise the search giant introduced yesterday. What that means for the consumer […]
If you know anything about Google’s messaging strategy in the last few years, you know that it’s been a bit of a mess. Allo, the consumer app, launched without the cross-platform features users expect. Text messaging on mobile is mired in inter-carrier warfare. And Hangouts has become a punchline. On two of those fronts, Google […]
