SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Yesterday Google released Hangouts, the company’s new video, voice, and text chat application. Previously known internally to Google by the codename “Babel,” Hangouts consolidates ...

Skydivers equipped with futuristic glasses live-broadcasted their descent into the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco during last year’s Google I/O. Developers lined up to receive not one, but ...

You can use Google Hangouts internationally to make oversea calls. There are fees for calling locations outside of the US and not all locations are available for these kinds of calls. Here's what else ...

Google previously announced that its most popular messaging app, Google Hangouts, would be shutting down. In a post today on the GSuite Updates blog, Google detailed what the Hangouts shutdown will ...

Google is, once again, changing up its messaging app strategy. The company plans to make Chat, its Slack-like app, free for everyone in 2021, when it will push people currently using Hangouts to use ...

Users who want to keep a copy of their Hangouts data are encouraged to use Google Takeout to download this data before the service is shut in November. Google is beginning to phase out Google Hangouts ...

Update, January 29, 2016: Added new information about the Hangouts Dialer app. The recent integration of Google Voice into the Hangouts application lets users call phone numbers and send texts, acting ...

We’re still waiting to see if Google will eventually merge Google Voice with Hangouts for Android and iOS, as has been anticipated for months now. But on Wednesday, Google went ahead and did the ...

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. In case you hadn’t heard, Google Hangouts ...

One of the conveniences of modern technology is staying connected to friends and loved ones who are thousands of miles away. While a simple video chat makes this connection possible, there may be more ...

Google still struggles to prove the value of its social network Google+; two years in, Time calls the project “tragic” and “perfunctory,” and the first question at a Google-sponsored “fireside chat” ...