Hangout, Google +, comes to Gmail

 

The old video chat Gmail was replaced by Hangout + Google, announced the company said on Monday (30/07).

The service video conversations Google Talk integrated with Gmail, launched in 2008, resisted Hangout Google +, created last year, but the transition will not escape. The main reason of change is the feature of Hangout that enables the conversation with up nine friends simultaneously.

The company says the change will be beneficial to users, since the Hangout you can start a video chat with anyone anywhere, whether in a window of Gmail, Google + or a device with Android or iOS.

Besides the opportunity to chat with friends on different devices, users of Gmail will also gain the unique features of the Hangout, like the ability to collaborate on a document from the Docs, watch a YouTube video in a group or screen sharing.

Below is the video presentation of the Hangout in Gmail:

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After Google Talk, Twitter is the time to stay off the air

 

On the morning of Thursday (26/07) the Google Talk went off the air, and a few hours later, it was time for another service down for no apparent reason: Twitter.

Until now, users can not access the microblogging site or by official or by applications such as TweetDeck and HootSuite. However, the mobile version of site is functioning normally.

In the Twitter status blog , microblog confirms the failure. "Users may be experiencing problems accessing Twitter. Our engineers are working to resolve the problem."

It is the second time in just over a month since the microblog is off the air. On June 21 another problem also meant that users were unable to access the service. On occasion, the service returned, but the company's team did not disclose the reason for the decline.

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