Tag: GOOGLETALK

Google Labs is attempting to resurrect chat bots with Google Talk Guru. The Guru is an automated IM service that can define words, perform basic calculations, translate text, pull in sports scores, perform Google searches, and tell you whether you should be glad or upset that you're stuck in front of a computer. Just send an invite to the Guru to chat with you, and ask away. ...

With a simple change to your Gmail settings, you can (allegedly) ensure that all of your incriminating Google Chat conversations won't come back to bite you. According to The Atlantic, users can take chats "off the record" by clicking the 'Actions' tab in the chat box and selecting the option from a drop-down menu. If a chat is off the record, the transcript will not be saved or archived by your ...

It's no secret that we're big fans of Google Voice here at Switched. But, while it's proven quite useful for archiving voicemails and text messages, we don't enjoy having to be tethered to an existing phone line in order to place and receive calls. When Google snatched up VoIP service Gizmo5 in November, though, we knew it would only be a matter of time before the company launched a full-fledged ...

We love Google's Gmail service, with its gigabytes (GB) of free storage and clean interface, and we also love keeping up with friends using the Google Talk chat service. The two have long been integrated, enabling you to chat in real-time from within the Gmail page, but now Google is adding another dimension: the ability to send SMS text messages to phones as you would to another person on Google ...

Sure, the iPhone has had various ways of letting you chat with friends via just about any instant messaging network you want. And hey, there are even a number of solutions out there that will let you manage all your chats from one application, like eBuddy, Meebo, and Fring. But what if you want to limit yourself to one instant messaging network. And one with as few people on it as possible? In ...

It was bound to happen eventually (if for no other reason than MySpace did it first) -- Facebook is finally offering up an instant-messaging service. Ironically, Facebook's new IM service may have the effect of killing off a couple of chat applications already available on the social-networking site. Initial rumors claimed that the new Facebook IM service, which is to be embedded into people's ...

In case you haven't been paying very close attention to your Gmail, or for some bizarre reason don't use the Google Mail service, you may have missed that while staying almost exactly the same cosmetically, Gmail has undergone a complete overhaul during the last few months. Since late October Gmail has gained new features on an almost weekly basis. First they added IMAP, an E-Mail delivery ...