AT&T does again what they do best: block video chatting apps. Like with FaceTime before it, AT&T had recently given its position on the new Google Hangouts: Video calling will not be supported on mobile data at this time. Obviously, people did not take kindly to this. If we’re paying for data, and we can use other apps like Skype to video chat, why not… Read more
When Google Hangouts were launched (back during the first day of Google I/O), they brought together a few elements of Google’s many separate chatting services. But though it was awesome, it was missing a few key things, namely SMS and Google Voice integration. These drawbacks made the service little more than a simple instant messaging app, when it… Read more
Google Hangouts was rumored to be a junction of all of Google’s chat tools, and it partially is. It combines the old Hangouts, Google Talk, and all the separate chat systems they used across their sites. However, a few specific communication methods were left out: Google Voice and SMS. We knew Google Voice integration wouldn’t be there at launch, but we… Read more
The Google news just keeps rolling in and it’s getting better every time. Google today touched a little bit on it’s real-time messaging services like Talk, Messenger, and Google Hangouts. Google has said during its session with the Google+ Hangouts team this afternoon that they “have done an incredibly poor job servicing our users” and also said that… Read more
When Google launched their Hangouts on Air last year allowing recorded or live conversations with friends to broadcast, they did so only to a limited number of broadcasters. Today, the search engine giant made the feature available to all Google+ users worldwide. I can tell you this is one feature I plan on putting to use here on DroidDog very very… Read more
Let’s take a second to talk about that big elephant in the room, Google+. Of course, we all know that Google+ has been getting heat for not providing nearly the encyclopedic list of features that the “other” social networking site has (Facebook of course), but can’t we talk about what it’s doing right for a second? In any case, for those that don’t know,… Read more
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