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Google’s Unified Chat Actually Named “Babel”– Coming to Android, iOS, Chrome,...
Over the last couple of weeks, we have seen a handful of reports suggesting that Google is on the verge of releasing a unified chat service called “Babble.” This new service was rumored to have...
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PSA: Google Voice Chrome Extension Updated Yesterday With Desktop...
Yesterday, the official Google Voice extension for Chrome received an update that introduced experimental desktop notifications. To our knowledge, this update has nothing to do with a unified Google...
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“Babel” Chat Name Confirmed Again, New Google Play 4.0 Makes Another Appearance
This afternoon, we’re getting what appears to be a second confirmation that Google’s new unified chat will be called Babel. We first reported the name as being “Babel“ and not the previously rumored...
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Rumor: Google Planning to Acquire WhatsApp for Upwards of $1 Billion
The worst kept secret leading up to this year’s Google I/O event has been the influx of information hinting at Google planning a new unified messaging service named “Babel.” While Google is no...
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Google Babel Makes First Appearance With More 1990s Emoticons Than You Can Count
After we first outed the name Google Babel last week, and the new unified chat app by Google hit internal testers, we figured it was only a matter of time before the first shots of it emerged. Thanks...
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WhatsApp Executive Says They Are Not Talking to Google About a Buyout
Hot on the heels of the story that was reported yesterday, the business development head of WhatsApp, Neeraj Arora, said that there are no talks between his company and Google regarding a sale. Rumors...
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Google Babel News: Google Voice Support “Eventually” Coming, Synced...
Whenever Google Babel does arrive for public consumption, we’re starting to believe it will be everything we have ever asked for in a unified messenger service. We’re talking synced notifications,...
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Rumor: Google Babel Will Actually Launch Publicly as Google “Hangouts”?...
According to a member of The Verge Forums, Google Babel will be called Google Hangout (or is it Hangouts?) at public launch. Now, normally we don’t take random internet forum threads as being gospel,...
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Google I/O 2013 Predictions, Speculation, and Rumors: New Nexus Q, Android...
Google I/O 2013 is next week. Hard to believe, right? It seems like only a few weeks ago that we were freaking out as the Nexus 7, Nexus Q and Jelly bean (Android 4.1) were all being unveiled through...
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Google Announces Hangouts, Their New Cross-platform Messaging Service
During today’s Google I/O keynote, Google and Vic Gundotra announced Hangouts, their new messaging service (previously codenamed Babel). It works across platforms, meaning it works on Chrome, Android,...
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Incase You Needed Proof That Hangouts was Codenamed “Babel,” Here You Go
We were the first to report the codename of “Babel” as Google’s new unified messaging service, which ended up as Hangouts at public launch, but if you needed actual proof that Babel was around for...
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