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Gmail Introduces Voice and Video Chat
WebProNews Feed — ... and we take care of the rest. And in the spirit of open communications , we designed this feature using Internet standards such as XMPP, RTP, and H.264, which means that third-party applications and networks can choose to interoperate with Gmail voice and video chat. Once you install the plugin, to start a video chat, just click on the "Video & more" menu at the bottom of your Gmail chat window, and choose "Start video chat." You'll have a few seconds to make sure you look presentable while it's ringing, and then you'll see and hear your friend live, right from within Gmail. ...

Google Launches Multi-platform, In-browser Voice and Video Chat
TheAppleBlog — ... , Google has built a service that is open to any developer and ready to interoperate with any network, which is all part of their open communications philosophy. It is worth mentioning that Google also sees fit to install their background updater service with this new chat feature. Rest assured, however, that if either component causes any platform issues for you, just run the accompanying un-installer to remove the Google components from your hard drive (so keep that disk image at hand!). Stored in /Library/Application Support/Google and /Library/Internet Plug-Ins , the ...

Not so infinite: Google blocks free Infinite SMS’s free text messaging
VentureBeat — ... by Google over open protocols they made available,” especially since there are tons of Google services have some kind of testing label. Gmail itself is still officially in beta testing. ...

Google kills free text message iPhone app
Betanews — ... . "Google has claimed no grievance with Infinite SMS other than its success. Their given reason for the block isn't abuse or wrongdoing; it's that we brought too many users (and thus too much cost) to an experimental service. We acted in good faith, accessing a feature publicly announced by Google over open protocols they made available. Other non-Google apps have been able to access the SMS feature since its launch. To us, this was no different from accessing Gmail's near limitless storage over the open IMAP protocol. We never could have guessed that the two of us would ...