Google+ received another new feature this week to go along with trends. Google has extended the chat functionality across its services to include Google+ circles. If you don’t chat using services such as Google Talk, Gmail, iGoogle and others, you probably won’t notice anything different. For others, you’ll find it easier to interact with people in your circles in more places than one.

Google is once again looking to expand the features of Google Talk, and the latest will make it more of a conferencing tool as opposed to something simply used to chat with a friend. In other words, it looks like Google Talk will be getting more professional features. According to a recent report in the more »

Users of Google Chat have recently seen new contact entries with green cell phone icons in their available-to-chat window. To date, Google has made no announcement about these and has yet to address the questions. These icons appear to be quick SMS links that allow chatters to send SMS to users mobile phones. They started more »

Ever wanted to just quickly log in and check your email only to have a bunch of friends instantly hit you up on chat, well now you can do just that, just switch yourself to invisible. A new option that was added to Gmail Chat will let you switch yourself from visible to invisible. The more »