Microsoft recently retired its Hotmail Service & went all out in ensuring its users migrate safely to its newer avatar; Outlook.com. Now the revamped & reworked iteration features core integration of Google’s instant messaging platform, Google Talk, more commonly known as GTalk. How did Google agree to such a synergy? Google has a competitive product in the form of Google Mail or Gmail....

Whether you love or hate Google, you cannot say that they are static. From dominating the Internet Search business to Internet Advertising to EMail and Chat and recently have even dominated the Smartphone landscape. Having so many services in operation, they are constantly improving current services, launching new services, and of course, culling old services that they see as deprecated. The GTalk...

  If you are not being able to chat via Gtalk you are not the only one. Gtalk services are down since late evening today. Users cannot access their Gtalk account on their phones or on their laptop/tablets. In case a user is signed in already, he cannot see other contacts, is not able to view his online/offline status and certainly cannot ping. Google has responded to this with the following statement,...

Despite having the infrastructure for video chat since 2008 (at a time when android was in its infancy) google never really capitalised on this advantage by introducing video chat in smartphones before anyone else. They didn’t even bother to update their desktop client to include video chat. I hate having to open up gmail to use all the new features like group chat, video calling which Google...

Google has quietly launched Google Talk Guru, an instant message chatbot that can deliver search results and answer queries such as sports scores. Once a user adds Google Talk Guru to his or her Google Talk chat client, he or she can send it instant messages with a pre-determined set of commands. Here are the current list of commands Google currently supports, as well as some of the company’s examples: Sport...

Don’t you just love it when a company sets out to do business with a noble cause in mind. Nivio, a Switzerland based tech company wants to educate 100 million children. The funny thing is, depending on which publication I looked at they seemed to have a slightly different mission. But I guess that’s just PR. Ubiquity and Affordability is Cloud Computing mantra and Nivio’s nDesktop...

Technology never ceases to surprise the most of us. Sometimes I wonder what the world would have been without mobiles phones, or these days smartphones. With the advent of new technology almost every day, our imagination should have no boundaries, and such imagination gives the birth of new technology. Video chat has been a feature which many of us are used to thanks to Skype or more recently...

As a viewer of the epic TV series Mahabharat, you would have heard the word ‘Tankaar‘ emanating from Arjun’s mouth quite a number of times. This word refers to the sound a bow makes when it is plucked and released, which forms the basis of the artillery game on messenger by the same name which you can play online with your friends. About the game: Tankaar can be regarded as a virtual...

Does your office block chat messengers? Now there’s a way to get away with it. There’s a web browser that helps you get access to whichever messenger you’re crazy about. That’s right it’s a Web Messenger service completely accessible for free and that let’s you share imagery cross platform. The website is called imo.im, although secured but cannot be restricted by...

I have been a huge fan of the IM world. It has sped up and simplified our way of communication in such a way that even the long distance between Kolkata and California seems so small. Personally I have been a  big addict of the legendary Google Chat. You can do lot of interesting stuff with Google Talk like Chat with friends and colleagues, get alert notifications, save bookmarks to Delicious, manage...