Google Hangouts will support SMS Message As iMessage

Google free messaging Hangouts newly introducing yesterday a uniform product every chat applications, instant messaging as the company's previous Talk, Google Messenger or Google Hangouts. Using a simple interface, easy to use, the ability to group video calling was excellent many users appreciate. However, this software is still some drawbacks, typically do not support SMS messaging capabilities.

The community manager of Google Hangouts, Dori Storbeck, today confirmed the integrated SMS will feature "is soon." He also emphasized here is the feature most requested when starting the software for download on the Play Store.

Integrated SMS will help the user to use only single message Hangouts for both traditional and OTT format. This is also an important step for Google to compete with Apple's iMessage service. Current iPhone users just go to messaging software to send the name and type, the system will automatically confirm if also using iMessage, the message is converted to free and vice versa.

In addition to Apple and Google, Blackberry also takes time to BBM platform to many different series, including iOS and Android.

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Google Can Buy Whats App With $ 1 billion

If this rumor becomes reality, software free messaging over Wi-Fi and 3G will become the mobile application Instagram billion second.

Home Digital Trends quoted separate sources that Google is taking the next big merger of them. The main objective is Whatsapp. The negotiations took place about 4-5 weeks and was relatively consistent Whatsapp to achieve higher price than the current proposal is "nearly $ 1 billion."

When Facebook announced to spend $ 1 billion in cash and stock to acquire Instagram photo filters, the technology world was stunned by a simple application, "sketchy" and only works on mobile devices there is such a bargain price. Dream became Instagram fairy for application development, but the analyst to predict which applications will break the record established that Instagram.

The service supports communication and social networks are playing a crucial role in connecting devices. Recently, Mark Zuckerberg has shared the IDC data that Facebook users spend more time using apps than any any other third party on the phone. Google are losing the battle and if you want to fly high, they need something to stand out as Whatsapp as a springboard.

Line, Nimbuzz, Tango, KakaoTalk, Viber, WhatsApp ... is attracting attention lately especially when speeds are achieved phenomenal growth. New Whatsapp born in 2009 had 250 million users to record 180 billion messages sent in 2012 New Year's Day. Line from zero reaching 130 million users after 2 years. Viber also takes less than 3 years to reach 175 million figure. Even rookie MessageMe also "sentence" is 1 million users in 12 days.

Notably, in Whatsapp but allows sending messages, free calling, it's still making money (an estimated $ 100 million in revenue per year). Whatsapp 1 USD fee if the users want to use does not contain advertising. In addition, it also profits from the partnership profit-sharing package with international carriers. Many spoke network, Whatsapp is that the leading cause of declining SMS.

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Google Apps will no longer free version for Business

Google has announced that from today will no longer register new Google Apps services (Gmail, Drive ... with your own domain) for free. Instead, the user can create a personal account or a Google Apps business for $ 50 USD / person / year.

Bad news for those who love Google or blogger that Google has announced that they will stop providing services free version of Google Apps Standard Edition to all new registered users.

Born in the year 2006, Google Apps is the first service to allow users to create a Gmail mailbox on the first free domain name that does not require any particular a condition such as hosting. This service also integrates Google Docs, Calendar, Talk to the domain name that helps organizations easily manage and group work effectively. Google Apps clear advantages for many other free services with high quality, good security. This service is always a top priority of the organization to be able to save a small cost is not small. This is also the first choice of every blogger when you want to create the mailbox of their domain name.


Following the success, Google Apps Premier Edition package continue to introduce to the business object with a commitment to stability up to 99.9% and their success has come to be over 5 million customers pay. Along with that Google has begun offering limited free version limits users to a domain name from 100 to 50 and now 10.Recently, a blog post, Google said it would no longer maintain the free version, users can now register for free that will be introduced to the latest version of Google Apps for Business to business objects have to pay charge. However, Google also announced that the free Google Apps account registered previously not affected by the new regulations and still use the normal version of Google Apps for Education for education still register for free charge.As Google explains that individuals, organizations and small business using this free package but the actual free package will not meet all the needs when expanding business scale requires more Advanced features such as customer support 24/7 or requires larger mailbox capacity, or individual users to wait a long time to be added in the package for businesses ready to meet the requirements above. That is the reason why Google Apps will no longer free package.But that reason is not very convincing when not everyone requires the need for customer service or additional features, they simply want to use Gmail as their domain name that only. So why do they have to spend to take $ 50/nguoi user / year for things they do not need?Clearly, Google wants the user and the client have to pay their fees. With more than 5 million customers now Google does not need to use the free package to attract more new users, they considered free package is the burden and make the situation more complex.Google also reminded everyone that they still maintain services for a free account previously registered and Google Apps for Education continues to be provided free of charge. Google also continues to provide Google Apps for Governmentcho services subject to government $ 50 / user / year.This was not happy news for all of us, can Google this action will push a large number of users switch to using services like Microsoft's Windows Live Admin Center when they're not stuck limit the number of users on a domain.

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