When technology works as it should, it enriches our lives and can make previously tiresome tasks easier to deal with. But when it doesn’t work, most of us get frustrated and don’t know where to start troubleshooting. If you’ve had trouble with Google Hangouts, we’re here for you. Having used it for quite some time, […]
Enlarge Google Google is stripping away a key feature from its best and most popular messaging platform. Google Hangouts users are no longer able to share their locations with one another. It’s not clear why Google is suddenly stripping away features from Google Hangouts, but an update to the Hangouts Android app, version 32, removes […]
Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images When you’re hosting a video chat, sometimes it’s useful or easier to simply let the other person see your screen, or a specific window you’re viewing, like a presentation. Rather than having to explain something, which may be difficult to put into words, you can provide a visual that […]
Enlarge / Google’s customary “We’re going to kill this service soon” pop-up. Another day, another dead or dying Google product. This time, Google has decided to shut down “Hangouts on Air,” a fairly popular service for broadcasting a group video call live over the Internet. Notices saying the service is “going away later this year” […]
Enlarge 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 look like, and the company shared some of its plan to transition Hangouts users to “Hangouts Chat,” a separate enterprise Slack clone. First, […]
Google announced in March 2017 that it would split Hangouts, its cross-platform messaging service, into two core apps — Hangouts Chat, a Slack-like tool for teams, and Hangouts Meet, a Skype-like videoconferencing application — and that both enterprise G Suite users and consumers would be migrated from classic Hangouts sometime this year. Today, it revealed a […]