According to a study published by tech consultancy Ovum, WhatsApp is the world's third most popular social messaging service after Facebook Chat and Google Chat.
Tools such as Google Chat and Google Mail are beta products, requiring users to give feedback on problems and suggestions.
Teen enthusiasm is helping oovoo compete against larger, more established rivals like Skype and the video chat services run by Apple and Google.
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In addition to Gmail, the outage also affected Google Drive, Google Chat, Google Calendar, Google Play and Google Chrome Sync.
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But increasingly unreliable connections to Google in recent months have hindered downloads and sharply reduced the effectiveness of instant-messaging service Google Chat, he said.
"Google has a chat application, Web-based search, and there is no one cohesive Google mobile application, which is important to have in a mobile environment where you want to be able to switch between applications, " she says.
In what passes for a publicity stunt for hackers, Todd Simpson, Chief of Innovation at Mozilla (the maker of Firefox), and Hugh Finnan, Director of Product Management for Google Chrome, staged a high-definition video chat through their respective browsers, and posted the video above.
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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.
The software is an important addition to Google's catalog, but offering IM and chat is just keeping up with the Joneses.
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.
Until now Google offered computer-to-computer voice and video chat services.
And they want to video-chat with fans in a Google Plus hangout.
After Raphie blew away the crowd and judges (one of them offered him an internship at Facebook, another at Google), I had the opportunity to connect with him and chat about his project, how he learned to hack at the tender age of 15, and which companies excite him right now.
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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Mozilla recently demonstrated Chrome to Firefox browser chat connectivity recently, talking up tools developers can use to build Web real-time communication apps.
Announced over the weekend, encrypted chat service Cryptocat will soon be accessible only by downloading a local browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
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Google and Singtel are rapidly signing up small and medium-sized companies in Asia to use the Google Apps suite of web software (email, video, chat, office software like Microsoft Office).
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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