Google launches Hangouts, a new unified, cross-platform messaging service for iOS, Android and Chrome
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Google has today announced Hangouts, a new messaging service that will replace the numerous ways Google services currently let you have real-time conversations with other users, such as Google Talk, Google Voice and Google+ Hangouts.
Reports of a unified messaging service from Google have been circulating since March, when Geek.com suggested that it would be called ‘Babble’. Droid Life followed up with a report that it would in fact be called Babel, a name that stuck amongst Google-watchers’ speculation until Tech Radar reported last week that the service would go under the ‘Hangouts’ name and launch at I/O.
This is a developing story, more to follow.
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