Hangouts

Potentially fulfilling a long-standing iPhone and iPad feature request, FaceTime might finally support group video calls with iOS 11, a report claimed on Friday.

Android users will see support for the direct share feature, while the iPhone app now supports universal links for access to Hangouts from other apps.

Google Hangouts has become much more useful on the Apple Watch, thanks to an update to its iOS app. Yesterday, among its usual bug fixes, Google added the ability to reply directly from notifications in Hangouts, and thanks to Apple's quick reply implementation, that functionality now also works on the Apple Watch. While Hangouts has been available for the Apple Watch for some time, you could only read and dismiss messages. Now you can choose from a selection of predetermined responses, or dictate a...

Google makes so many apps for iOS, we thought maybe we could live the Android life on our iPhones. Joel Mathis tried it for a week. Here's what you need to know.

Google Hangouts for mobile has gotten a major design overhaul. The design refresh comes as part of Hangouts 4.0, which is rolling out today on Android and was released about a month back on iOS. Hangouts 4.0 keeps the app's distinct green accent color, but it adds a floating compose button, cleans up and simplifies the interface, and presumably adds in all of the animated flourishes you'd expect from a Material Design app. Hangouts' Android Wear app should also be looking a bit nicer today....

Six months ago I decided to try and make my iPad my primary mobile device. So, far I’ve been more successful than I thought I’d be. There are, however, improvements to iOS I hope Apple makes at WWDC.

Google continues to woo iOS owners over to Hangouts with new features. The software for iPhone and iPad got a redesign and enough improvements to make it better than its Android counterpart. Will you use it?

Google on Thursday updated its all-in-one Hangouts messaging app, bringing optimizations for Apple's latest iOS 7, new features for iPad and overall usability enhancements.

Google's cross-platform messenger app got a nice update today that includes a major redesign for iPhone and iPad. Google Hangouts for iOS 2.0 boasts a flat new look consistent with iOS 7, and enables picture-in-picture video calling for the first time. You can now send video messages of up to 10 seconds through the app, as well as share a map of your current location. Happily, the new Hangouts for iOS also lets you send animated stickers to your friends....

Christmas is a time of the year for friends and family, but if you can’t be with your loved ones (or want to surprise them while you are on your way to meet them) technology can help, and in particular video calling apps....

Going “all in” with Google’s online services does not mean that Android is the only option for your tablet. The following will show just how much attention Google has given to to Apple’s own iPad.

Google announced a trio of updates for its Hangouts cross-platform messaging service today, adding SMS support, animated GIFs and one-tap location sharing....

The apps world brought us redesigns, updates, and brand new offerings this week, none of which are pumpkin spice flavored. Put on your touchscreen gloves and get apping!...

Google has released an update for its Hangouts iOS app that includes some platform-specific updates and also copies the same improvements made recently to its Android app. In this release, users can now make phone calls directly from the app, incoming messages will no longer stop your music from playing, and animated GIFs will play in-line....

The Google Hangouts iOS app received a major update on Friday, with the latest iteration bringing free in-app voice calling within the U.S. and Canada, as well as incoming and outgoing calls with a user's Google Voice number.

In July Google gave Hangouts on the desktop a significant feature bump by rolling in the ability to make phone calls, and now an update to the iOS app is bringing the same functionality to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Calls are free within the United States and Canada, and while users will also be able to make and receive calls using their Google Voice number, that's it for additional voice functionality; this isn't a full Google Voice replacement just yet. On the regular messaging side, the...

We’ve known for sometime that SMS is becoming passe for many smartphone owners worldwide....

Google rolled out an update to its Google+ iOS app on Friday, replacing previously integrated Messenger support with Hangouts, while adding support for the company's Google Drive cloud storage service.

A trio of popular iOS apps were updated on Thursday with major new features, as Mailbox has added a landscape mode on iPhone, Google Hangouts now includes support for tapping on links and inviting friends to chat via text message, and Skype now offers free video messaging.

The new Google Hangouts app for iOS has received its first update since making its App Store debut back in May. The release adds a number of new features, including the ability to invite friends via SMS and click and share links, plus bug fixes and improvements.

The Yahoos of the world may be eliminating telecommuting, but the fact is, working from home is easier than ever. I work from home myself, so I’m clearly biased, but many companies find that home-based workers are more productive than their office-based brethren. Here are the Mac apps and web-based tools I use to make working from home work....

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Ryan Matzner of Fueled. Fueled is a digital product design and development incubator based in New York, Chicago and London....

Google on Tuesday rolled out Google+ number 43, the designation assigned to the company's latest iOS app, which brings a host of new features for Google+ Photos, Hangouts and user streams.

I've tried WhatsApp, GroupMe, Kik, Google Voice, LINE, Trillian, and basically every other messaging app you can think of — I've even tried using Skype as an IM service, because at least my parents know what Skype is. I'd given up on finding an app that had all three things I need: cross-platform, useful online and off, and accessible enough that I could convince everyone I know to use it. But Google's new Hangouts app is all that and more....

MessageMe — a messaging app that launched in March with a little Facebook controversy thrown in — has raised another $10 million, according to an SEC filing earlier today. The Series A round was led by Greylock Partners; and as part of it, John Lilly, the ex-ceo of Mozilla who is now a partner at Greylock, will be joining the board of LittleInc Labs, makers of MessageMe.

Let’s cut to the chase: Google’s new Hangouts app is an over-the-top mobile messaging service in the vein of Whatsapp, Kik, and Facebook Messenger. Google is not reinventing the wheel here. But unlike its competitors, Hangouts offers group video chats. Therein lies the appeal....

Google has today announced Hangouts, a new messaging service that replaces the numerous Google services that currently help you have real-time conversations with other users, such as Google Talk, Google Voice and Google+ Hangouts....

After years of waiting for Google to tie its disparate communication services together, the company has today announced a unified messaging system simply called Hangouts, available for Android, iOS, and the web using the Chrome extension. The new app will be available today on all platforms....