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New Hangouts App Conflicts With Google Voice Feature; Fix Coming

Mike Isaac in News on May 20 at 9:42 am PT

Tough luck for Google Voice loyalists, as the new Hangouts messaging product denigrates a key function of Voice. Change is coming, but it could be a while.

With Revamped Hangouts, Google Aims to Unify Messaging

Mike Isaac in News on May 15 at 10:41 am PT

Google’s new take on messaging is finally here.

News Byte

Google Unifies Free Storage Products

Liz Gannes in Product News on May 13 at 10:38 am PT

Guess this move wasn’t deemed important enough for the I/O keynote. But for those who carefully meter their free Google storage, life just got a little easier. Google now gives users 15 gigabyte to be split up among Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos however they like.

“Path Does Not Spam Users”: Dave Morin Talks About the Hyper-Growth Pains of a “Personal Network”

Mike Isaac in Social on May 6 at 7:27 am PT

The Path CEO addresses spamming accusations and concerns about his startup’s recent viral growth in an interview with AllThingsD.

Galaxy S 4 Is a Good, but Not a Great, Step Up

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on April 23 at 9:03 pm PT

The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is an evolution of prior Samsung models and despite some improvements, it still is especially weak in the software Samsung adds to basic Android.

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Google Musical Chairs (Comic)

Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on March 22 at 1:50 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.

Letting Go of Gmail

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on March 19 at 6:05 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on deleting a Gmail account, Roku and transferring files from an old PC to a new one.

Mailbox: Swipe Your Way to a Clutter-Free Inbox

Bonnie Cha in Product Reviews on February 21 at 6:00 am PT

Mailbox for iOS helps turn your email inbox into an action center rather than a storage center, but it has limitations.

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Myanmar Denies Hacking After Gmail Warnings

Shibani Mahtani, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 11 at 11:23 am PT

Myanmar’s government denied its agencies were involved in hacking after Google technology warned a number of journalists using Gmail that their accounts might be the target of state-sponsored hacking.

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