Replaced Google Gmail Video Chat + Hangouts

San Francisco - Starting this week, Google replacing the video chat in Gmail with Google + Hangouts. With this upgrade, users can not only chat with friends via Gmail, but also on the + or Google Android phone and Apple.

"Not like the old video chat technology-based peer-to-peer, Hangouts harnessing the power of Google's network to provide better service quality," Google wrote in a blog posting that reported by Mashable, Tuesday (31/07/2012).

Google says all Gmail users can now chat with their friends and talk Google + with up to nine people at once. Users akan being able to watch video YouTube together, collaborate in document Google and divide screen
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The internet giant has recently expanded Google + features, including the introduction of YouTube parties last June. This feature allows users of Google + YouTube video watch together while doing a video chat.

Development continues to be done on the Gmail service. However, while the service continues to grow Gmail, Google's social networking + is still struggling to align themselves with Facebook.

Google's move to continue to integrate Gmail and Google services + seems to be an attempt to embrace the e-mail users to use Google +.

Hangouts feature in Gmail was released this week and will gradually be integrated fully in the next few weeks.