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Google will let everybody migrate from Hangouts to Chat without spending a dime in 2021

Google’s technique round its messaging apps is nothing if not messy proper now (whats up Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo and Co.), but it surely seems like issues will get a bit simpler come subsequent yr. We already knew that Hangouts’ time was coming to an finish and as Google introduced at present, the corporate wil…
Google’s strategy around its messaging apps is nothing if not messy right now (hello Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo and Co.), but it looks like things will get a bit easier come next year. We already knew that Hangouts’ time was coming to an end and as Google announced today, the company wil…

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Author: Frederic Lardinois

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  2. "It has been over four years since Project Jacquard, Googles smart fabric technology, made its debut at the I/O developer conference". (October 5, 2020)
  3. "Google today announced that it is making Meet, its video meeting tool for businesses that directly competes with the likes of Zoom, available for free to everyone. Until now, you could participate in a Meet call without being a paying user, but you needed a paid G Suite account to start calls". (April 29, 2020)
  4. "Google, together with its partner SubCom, today announced that the companys privately owned Dunant subsea cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast is now operational". (February 3, 2021)
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  6. "A group of industry heavyweights, including Google, Box, Citrix, Dell, Imprivata, Intel, Okta, RingCentral, Slack, VMware and Zoom, today announced the launch of the Modern Computing Alliance". (December 10, 2020)
  7. "Google today announced a deeper integration between Gmail on mobile and its Meet video conferencing service. Now, if you use Gmail on Android or iOS and somebody sends you a link to a Meet event, you can join the meeting right from your inbox". (June 16, 2020)
  8. "Google today announced that its Chrome browser is moving to a faster release cycle by shipping a new milestone every four weeks instead of the current six-week cycle (with a bi-weekly security patch)". (March 4, 2021)
  9. "In a press conference at the White House, President Trump today announced that 1,700 Google engineers were working on a coronavirus screening site". (March 14, 2020)
  10. "During a press conference at the White House, President Trump today announced that the government is working with Google to build an online screening website for COVID-19". (March 13, 2020)
  11. "After Facebook canceled its F8 developer conference and Google itself moved its Cloud Next event in April to a digital-only conference, it doesnt come as a huge surprise that Google is canceling its I/O developer conference in Mountain View for 2020 as well". (March 3, 2020)
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