That bought him new servers, a cloud-hosted chat program and much-needed respiration room.
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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.
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.
There are many people who's Internet interactions revolve almost entirely around Facebook, which serves up their news and entertainment and acts as both an e-mail and chat program.
It will also feature Video Kinect, a video chat program.
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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.
The program also features a chat with Nguyen Tai, the founder of Socbay.
Replacing the familiar iChat, Messages is an instant-messaging program with group-chat capability and a dash of text messaging mixed in.
The audience for each Fireside Chat is invited to submit questions for the program prior to broadcast.
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When chatting with someone, the program tells you when your g-chat comrade is typing, or has typed something.
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.
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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