You can open Google Hangouts in Gmail to chat with others, but you will need to send an invite if the contact is not yet on ...

This October, Google is retiring Hangouts “classic” for G Suite enterprise users. Ahead of that, a number of legacy features will be added to the Hangouts Chat and Meet replacements. At Cloud Next ...

Google Chat is available to everyone today. Photo: Florence Ion/Gizmodo Google is officially making its Workspace suite of apps available to all users with a Google account instead of limiting it to ...

Google has announced that starting today, people who are still using Hangouts on mobile will see an in-app prompt asking them to move to Chat in Gmail or the Chat app. The company says the new prompt ...

Google will begin replacing on Monday Gmail’s existing video chat system with a new, better one based on the Hangouts feature from its Google+ social networking service, the company said on Monday.

The least said about Google’s messaging strategy, the better. But for better or worse, Hangouts Chat and Meet for G Suite, Google’s work-focused text and video chat tools, are here to stay, given that ...

You can easily search your Google Hangouts chats to find terms or words using your computer or mobile device.

Google is not abandoning consumer users of the chat application, but it will migrate them to the enterprise-focused Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet sometime next year. When he's not battling bugs and ...

This week saw Hangouts Meet become Google Meet amid a surge in video conferencing usage. Hangouts Chat is picking up a new feature that lets you forward messages to Gmail. On the web client, hovering ...

Coronavirus has many people staying home and connecting with friends and coworkers through video chat. Here are two options for staying in touch. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's ...

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