[DC LoCo] Recent News: Google now offers Video Chat in Linux

[Jeremy Bicha]

It looks like Google released the plugin just in time for today's
announcement of greater integration between Gmail and Google Voice.
You can now call phones from Gmail or receive phone calls. It's not
really that much of a new feature since Google Voice has been
available to anyone who wants it for a while but this makes it more
discoverable by the masses.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-phones-from-gmail.html

Jeremy

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Ted Smith <teddks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 20:40 -0400, Kevin Cole wrote:
> > The download results indicate:
> >
> > Google voice and video chat incorporates technologies from Global IP
> > Solutions and Vidyo, Inc. which are covered under pending U.S. and
> > foreign patent applications.
> >
>
> Laura and I have been using voice and video chat in Pidgin with
> jabber.no for as long as Pidgin has supported it. There's really no
> reason to use Google's software for video chat.