It will also feature Video Kinect, a video chat program.

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That bought him new servers, a cloud-hosted chat program and much-needed respiration room.

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The program also features a chat with Nguyen Tai, the founder of Socbay.

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Google on Wednesday released a new instant messaging and voice chat program, ending months of speculation over whether the search giant would enter the heated IM market.

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Google released a new instant messaging and voice-chat program, ending months of speculation over whether the search giant would enter the heated IM market.

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Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) released a new instant messaging and voice-chat program, ending months of speculation over whether the search giant would enter the heated IM market.

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Replacing the familiar iChat, Messages is an instant-messaging program with group-chat capability and a dash of text messaging mixed in.

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Last time, Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler kicked off a program full of amazing conversations, like a fireside chat with OUYA CEO Julie Uhrman.

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Similar to the free program Roger Wilco, the new voice chat will be included in a new version of DirectX, Microsoft's applications programming interface for 3D games.

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