Yesterday Google announced that Gmail users can start both audio and video conversations from within the web-based mail interface. Naturally that got a lot of people excited because you don't need to download any third-party program to get it running. You do, however, have to install a plugin on your computer though.

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The long-awaited Google Talk for iPhone is finally available, and it's not in the form of an iPhone application. Instead, it's simply a browser app which makes us wonder why it took Google over a year to make something for the iPhone. Perhaps they were too busy working on stuff for their own Android?

Anyway, Google Talk is available and was designed just for the iPhone. All iPhone users need to do is go to w...

Both you and I have been complaining for quite awhile that Google needs to provide an updated desktop version of the Google Talk instant messenger, and it looks like they are listening after all. Over the weekend they released a new version called Google Talk, Labs Edition that is currently in testing. Sounds great, right?

Google almost got it ...

I've been complaining for quite awhile that Google Talk hasn't been updated in ages (over a year), but the online version of the messaging clients have been receiving features quite regularly.  Google recently added AIM support to Gmail Chat, group chatting is possible in both the Flash client and Gmail Chat, and the smilies available in both online messenger clients are ...

Google has just introduced a new way to help site owners communicate more with their visitors.  It's called Google Talk Chatback and it's available to any website where you can add HTML content. Inserting the Chatback "badge" will allow visitors to chat with you which means you'll be having an instant message session with your readers, right from the browser. Cool, huh?

The requirements are as follows:

• The Site owner must have a ...
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At last, Google has released something that will benefit Google Talk  users too! Just yesterday they announced that new translation bots have been added to Google Talk.  That means that you can essentially "chat" with the bot, and whatever you say to them, they'll translate it back.  It works by adding a bot as one of your friends.  So for example, I added the Chinese speaking bot to my friend list (en2zh@bot.talk.google.com), and then ...

Hey Google, remember that Google Talk application you have? Yeah, the one that keeps getting ignored? You launched it back in 2005 and added a few features in 2006 (offline messaging and voice mailing), but since then it seems you've just forgotten about it. Now it looks like you're focusing all of your efforts on Gmail Chat and the flash based Google Talk gadget for personalized homepages. Here we thought your next move would ...