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Google Chat Gets Dark Theme!

Kellen July 29, 2020 19

Google Chat, one of the whitest apps in the history of the app game, got its dark theme today. The update with dark theme is already rolling out too, so be sure to check your Play Store for updates if you use it. Google announced the news through its G Suite...

It’s Official! Gmail is Getting a Huge Upgrade With Chat and Meet

Kellen July 15, 2020 25

After leaking earlier today, Google has now confirmed that Gmail is getting a big upgrade that includes Google Chat and Meet. Dubbed "a better home for work," Google's focus with this move was to integrate a bunch of their services together for G Suite users...

Google Chat Gains Support for Messaging Non G Suite Users

Kellen May 18, 2020

Google Chat, the app formerly known as Hangouts Chat, will pick up wider usability starting today. After having been locked to conversations between G Suite users since it launched three years ago, Google's business-focused messaging service will now allow...

Not That It Matters, But Hangouts Meet is Now Google Meet (Updated: Chat Too)

Kellen April 8, 2020

Hangouts Meet, a Google video conferencing/meeting service from 2017 you likely have never used because it has been an exclusive to G Suite customers, will operate under a new name going forward. Say hello to Google Meet. Google made a quiet announcement for...

Report: Google is Making Some Sort of Unified Communications App

Kellen January 28, 2020

Blackberry used to have this unified inbox service or app that let you combine communications from a variety of services. It was super handy as a catch-all location for all of the notifications that came from messaging or email apps. According to a new report,...

Google Extends Life of Classic Hangouts to June 2020 for Some

Kellen August 21, 2019

We know that Google Hangouts will die one day and that most of us will have the opportunity to transition over to something else, possibly Google's Hangouts Chat. Today, though, the death of classic Hangouts has been given somewhat of an extension for select...

Classic Hangouts Gets a Slow Death Start Date

Kellen January 22, 2019

Remember the report at the end of last year that described the eventual death of Hangouts, the one that caused the Hangouts boss at Google to throw a bit of a Twitter fit? And then remember when Google followed up to confirm the general theme of that report,...

Smart Reply Comes to Hangouts Chat

Tim December 7, 2018

Hangouts Chat, the enterprise-focused version of Google's chat service, is getting a Smart Reply feature powered by a similar machine learning system to the one that is currently available inside of Gmail and other services from Google. For example, someone...