Tag: GOOGLE TALK

Today Google announced Google Apps for Your Domain. Through this new service, Google is offering free private label email, instant messaging and calendar tools. The web-based applications are built on the same free Google applications you are used to like Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and Google Page Creator, but with the addition of your unique branding and interface design. Users have the ...

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The new Yahoo! Messenger version 8 with voice has been brought out of beta to stir the pot with MSN Messenger, and Google Talk. Besides being able to tie into MSN Messenger contacts, the new Yahoo messenger is loaded with plug-ins and cool new features from both internal developers, and users, by using Yahoo Messengers Plug-in SDK. Top plug-ins for Yahoo Messenger include one for Coupons.com, ...

Google has just released a great new version of Google Talk. This new version has all the goodies people have been asking for. This new feature list includes: File Transfer - Send unlimited files and folders to contacts. With no restrictions on file size. Voicemail - If your buddy isn't answering his/her call, leave a message. A voicemail message. And even if your friend doesn't use Google ...

There is a new version of Google Talk available that adds a feature that most other instant messaging clients have: user pictures. It also contains a number of new features, including: Pop-up boxes for contacts when rolled over Multiple visual themes with different formats to display chats Alerts now have a close button and right-click option Contact status changes occur ...

Goowy, a personalized home page site whose main distinguishing feature until now has been its Flash-based interface, is planning to add some more compelling features soon, namely instant messaging and online file storage. According to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington the file storage feature will be through Box.net using its new API and include up to 1GB storage (with a crappy 5MB-per-file limit), ...

Developing a web service and don't want to manage your own authentication? Use Google's! That's the gist of this article, which describes how to use SSL and XMPP to authenticate your users against Google's database of users in the same way Google Talk does. The article uses as an example Zooomr, an interesting service made more interesting by the fact that it allows authentication from a number of ...

According to DesktopLinux.com, Google is working with Windows-Linux compatability experts CodeWeavers to bring some of Google's Windows apps over to Linux. In particular, CodeWeavers is working on making Picasa, Google's photo organizing and editing software, work on Linux with the help of a WINE compatability layer. Google intends for the Linux version of Picasa to be as easy to install as ...

Recently Google updated Google Talk to enable "federation" with other servers, the main effect of which is that you can now talk to users on other Jabber servers using Google Talk. As a side effect, however, it's also possible to sign on to AIM, MSN Messenger, or Yahoo! IM and talk to your buddies, all from within Google Talk. BigBlueBall has a tutorial on getting it working. It takes a ...

Ars Technica is reporting that tomorrow Google will be announcing a new video service that will "allow users to buy video content for pre-determined prices," and they're also planning to announce partnerships with CBS and the NBA. Ars has lots of juicy speculation, including whether they'll be offering downloads or only streaming video, if they'll use Flash video as Google Video ...

Ars Technica is reporting that Deleware patent farm Rates Technology, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that the VoIP capabilities of Google Talk violate its patents. "The patents focus on the use of a centralized database with pricing information for the purposes of determining the cheapest phone call carrier on the fly," says Ars, and RTI claims it has over 700 ...

Last week the Jabber Software Foundation announced the publication of Jingle, a set of extensions to XMPP, the message protocol used by Jabber, for use VoIP and video, which are open version of the protocols used by Google Talk. Google has been working with Jabber to standardize these protocols, and have released the open source Libjingle package for other developers to make use of the protocols. ...