Google Inc. just added voice and video chat capabilities to Gmail, launching a free Web-based service that competes with the likes of Skype.
Gmail and Google App subscribers can now choose to speak with friends on a video screen and simultaneously instant message them in a Google Chat box. This new feature uses a special web browser plug-in available for PC and Mac, which requires Firefox, IE, Chrome, and a camera.
For now there’s no video support in Google Chat, but you will be able to access this from the web browser, with the capability to tear the video chat into a separate window. According to Google spokesman Jason Freidenfelds, the idea is to make it “quicker and easier to communicate with other people by whatever means is best convenient.” [Cnet]
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