Here's how to use Google Chat in any internet browser on your Mac or PC. Check out the products mentioned in this article: Apple Macbook Pro (From $1,299.00 at Apple) ...

Google Chat is reintroducing a small tweak that could help your boss keep tabs on what you're up to and when. In a blog post, Google says it is bringing back the Idle status, denoted by an orange ...

Google Chat, the service formerly known as Hangouts Chat, has a new app that works on any PC with Chrome. The messaging service has long had a desktop application, but this Progressive Web App ...

In 2005, Google launched Google Talk, a desktop application that lets you communicate with friends from any PC. The next year, Google added a chat component to Gmail, using the tools from Google Talk.

For reference, some of these changes have already made their way to Google Chat within Gmail. The new development brings ...

Google Chat isn't compelling enough to warrant setting up a Google Workspace account for your team messaging needs, but, if you're already invested in Workspace, it's suitable for quick communication.

Google spent the second half of the 2000s turning Google Talk into the de facto replacement for AOL Instant Messenger. Then, over the past few years, Google stopped paying attention to it altogether.

Google Chat isn't compelling enough to warrant setting up a Google Workspace account for your team messaging needs, but, if you're already invested in Workspace, it's suitable for quick communication.