You can now use iMessage on Android and Windows thanks to a chat app, called ‘Beeper’. Here’s everything you need to know about this.

Here’s how to enable or add Google Hangouts account in Messages app on your macOS running Mac computer the right way.

You can now download and sideload install the APK file of Hangouts Meet app for your Android device. Here are the details.

Google has relaunched Hangouts as a corporate tool, with the app having two separate parts in Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat this time around.

Available for Windows, Mac and Linux, Franz takes all of your instant messaging accounts – from Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Hangouts, Skype, Slack and others – and crams them into one app that keeps everything in the same place.

The official Google Hangouts app for iOS has been around for quite a while, and has received a ton of changes since its very inception. And today sees the app being updated to version 2.0, bringing with it a bunch of new cool features and changes.

One of the positive trends which Android users are benefitting from at the moment stems from Google placing a lot of importance on getting its own first-party Android apps into the daily flow of as many users as possible through the Play Store. To keep the ball rolling on that commitment the company has today pushed out two major app updates to the Play Store for the masses to enjoy.

Google, it’s fair to say, likes to make a song and dance of its announcements, and with the company’s Google+ event having taken place today, Hangouts has been afforded a pretty healthy update. Vic Gundotra announced all of the details, and if you’re a regular Hangouts user, you’ll be pleased to know that there’s now support for animated GIFs and location sharing, as well as one or two other nice additions. Catch all of the details after the break.

Apple’s recent migration to iOS 7 has pretty much guaranteed that any developer who sees a future in their mobile software will be pushing out an update that brings a minimum of visual changes. We’ve already seen a number of Google’s App Store offerings going through the update process, but today is the turn of the extremely popular Hangouts app that has been revised to version 1.3.0.

YouTube and Google+, are two Google properties, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that both should be integrated as closely as possible to one another. +Hangouts, Google+’s group video chat feature, has since its inception allowed YouTube video to be played back within video conversations allowing all participants to view the same video simultaneously. It now seems that support for YouTube Live, YouTube’s live streaming service, is being added to +Hangouts, allowing live events to be played back in real time as well.