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Lifehacker: Google Launches Voice and Video Chat Inside Gmail [Video Chat]
Electronista | The Macintosh News Network: Google launches Gmail audio, video chat
Today @ PC World: Google Launches Free Video Chat Service
DVICE Atom Feed: Gmail gets voice and video chat capabilities
AppleInsider: $149 Costco iPhone rumor, $5 iTunes movies, Gmail AV chat
Google Launches Voice and Video Chat Inside Gmail [Video Chat]
Lifehacker —
[image] Today Google starts rolling out voice and video chat inside Gmail which requires a free browser plug-in download , and, obviously, a webcam or microphone. Googler Justin Uberti explains: Once you install the plug-in, to start a video chat, just click on the "Video & more" menu at the bottom of your Gmail chat window, and choose "Start video chat." You'll have a few seconds to make sure you look presentable while it's ringing, and then you'll see and hear your friend live, right from within Gmail. You can click the "pop-out" icon to make the video larger, or click the fullscreen icon in the upper left-hand corner for a fully ...
Google launches Gmail audio, video chat
Electronista | The Macintosh News Network —
[image] Google today launched the surprise addition of Gmail video chat to its webmail interface. The feature lets contacts use Google Talk to start a two-way video or audio-only conversation with anyone currently online and can be started in the middle of a text chat. Like dedicated desktop apps, the web version carries a picture-in-picture view and can be stretched out or made full-screen. The feature is also potentially usable by any other software, Google says: as it uses H.264 video and standard Internet streaming protocols, third-party apps can hook into the Gmail video chat format to use the feature without tying users to a ...
Google Launches Free Video Chat Service
Today @ PC World —
[image] Google is getting into the video chat game with a new feature available as of Tuesday. Gmail Video and Voice offers Webcam-based video conferencing to all Gmail users. The service is available free of charge. How It Works Gmail Video and Voice requires a browser plug-in and either a microphone (for straight audio chatting) or a Webcam (for video and audio chatting) to function. The plug-in -- a proprietary, non-Flash-based system -- runs about 2MB and supports Chrome , Firefox 2.0+, Internet Explorer 7.0, and Safari 3.0. As of now, the video chat service will not be made available within the standalone Google ...
Gmail gets voice and video chat capabilities
DVICE Atom Feed —
When I was younger, I always thought that one of the coolest future technologies I had to look forward to was video phones. You'd be able to see people when you talked to them! How awesome! Well, the tech has been available for a while now, but it just hasn't caught on. Maybe it's because there's no real benefit to seeing who you're talking to or maybe it's because people like sounding professional while they're actually in their underwear, but for whatever reason it just hasn't done much. ...
$149 Costco iPhone rumor, $5 iTunes movies, Gmail AV chat
AppleInsider —
By Aidan Malley Published: 06:30 PM EST One report is suggesting that Apple will not only expand iPhone sales to Costco but cut pricing at the same time. In a more confirmed price drop, Apple is now touting $5 movie purchases as a regular feature. Also, Google has launched its own video chat feature and has started tracking the spread of the flu through searches. iPhone seen reaching Costco for $149 In a more controversial claim, analyst group Global Equities Research founder Trip Chowdhry believes that Apple will bring iPhones to Costco for $149 in January. The step would be aggressive for Apple, which dropped the starting price ...
Google Adds Voice & Video Chat to Gmail
SolSie.com —
Google Adds Voice & Video Chat to Gmail Today Google launched voice and video chat in Gmail. with effort focus on ease of use and high-quality audio and video. You have first download and install the voice and video plugin . To start a video chat, just click on the "Video & more" menu at the bottom of your Gmail chat window, and choose "Start video chat." Nuf said, the video below will explain what to do! [Source GmailBlog ] [image] [image] Leave a comment Name (required) E-mail (required) URI Your Comment Notify me of followup comments via e-mail
Video conferencing added to Gmail
Web User | News —
Video conferencing added to Gmail November 12, 2008 Web User
Gmail Gets Video and Voice Chat!
GeekSugar —
Talk about Google rolling out an exciting new FREE feature! If you have friends and family all over the world, and hate the thought of spending a small fortune on long distance calls, you can now use Gmail to chat via voice or video! Available on Macs and PCs within the next couple of days, Gmail users will be able to select "start video chat" or "start voice chat" right from their chat windows and start talking for free. Even if you don't have a webcam, you can still have voice conversations with this useful plugin. To install, visit this link or click on options in the Gmail chat window and choose "add voice/video chat." Thank ...
Gmail: face-to-face “voice and video chat” for PCs and Macs
D' Technology Weblog —
Google has added “voice and video chat” right inside Gmail for PCs and Macs. All you have to do is download and install the voice and video plugin for easy-to-use, seamless experience, with high-quality audio and video, which’s designed using Internet standards such as XMPP, RTP, and H.264, which means that third-party applications and networks can choose to interoperate with Gmail voice and video chat.
Once you install the plugin, to start a video chat, just click on the “Video & more” menu at the bottom of your Gmail chat window, and choose ...
Video and Voice Chat features added to Gmail
Gizmo Watch —
IMs are the way to go, and with added in-browser functionality, things only get better by the day. GTalk has been in use over a number of years now, and there is ample potential that the messenger possesses. And with Google adding Video and Voice Chat feature to GTalk, we see it as surmounting advantage over the other IMs. Typing mails may be no way different to typing chat messages over the IM, only for the later being a quicker mode of transferring information. This added video, voice chatting could be the easiest and quickest means to deliver instant messages – may god bless your internet connections for it, souls. Using the ...
Gmail Chat Gets Voice And Video Chat
GEARFUSE —
Alright! Gmail is no longer just providing the most convenient email and chat service on the Internet, it’s now launching voice and video chat right in the browser. Now you’ll be able to speak visually to your favorite foreign exchange students with the click of a button. It’s simple to set up, too. All you’ve got to do is download and install the voice and video plugin. Then, you’ll be on your way selling your body for cash as Internet onlookers watch to see how much you can fit in — nevermind. Link
Gmail Adds Video, Voice Chat
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech —
google.jpg By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews Well, they don’t have SMS Chat working yet, but Google has ratcheted up the competition in webmail … or rather, all things communication, as Gmail is rapidly becoming, by adding video and voice chat to Gmail. Already, it was pretty convenient to use chat directly within Gmail, but with a webcam and a Web browser plug-in , you can now initiate video chats with other Gmail users. No webcam? You can still chat sans video, as long as your PC at least has a microphone plugged into it. On the other hand, no webcam? Google makes sure to “help you” with some ...
Gmail Introduces Voice and Video Chat
Gear Live —
Tired of using emoticons to express what only your face can truly convey? So are Google‘s Gmail software engineers, hence, Tuesday’s introduction of Gmail Voice and Video Chat. In order to enjoy the new ...
