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 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 Gmail app has undergone a massive overhaul over the past few months. The app is now more powerful than ever, with services like Google Meet and Chat built-in. Google is now announcing a new update ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A report from The Information (subscription required) claims that Google is working on yet another messaging app. The team from GSuite is cooking up a mobile app that "brings together the functions of ...

Google’s strategy around its messaging apps is nothing if not messy right now (hello Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo and Co.), but it looks like things will get a bit easier come next year. We already knew ...

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