Several big changes are happening in the back end of Google's communication mediums that will have big results for users in the front.
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Hangouts, other Google services down (no, it’s not just you)
Come back from lunch to find that you’re unable to touch base with all your friends on Google Hangouts? You’re not alone. A disruption is currently affecting a number of Google services, and Google has confirmed that an investigation is underway. Google’s own status page for its various apps and services shows reported disruptions for Talk and Hangouts, which is probably how most of you are noticing this outage, but that’s not the extent of it. Google also mentions issues affecting Sheets, and while it doesn’t ...
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Why a Cross-Platform Chat/Video Chat Client is a Win — And Doomed to Fail
We live in a world of vast technological choices and options. That’s a good thing. Without options we’d be left with just one solution to choose from. Quality, features, and functionality would be limited, and the choices we’d have would likely be of poor quality. At least that’s the way a monopoly usually works. Instead we have three (or four) primary choices for our mobile operating systems (with more on the way). We can get hardware from any one of a dozen OEMs. We can install software on our devices to enable us to do things that would have seemed to be ...