Google Chat, available from within Gmail and other Google services, doesn't offer the capabilities of other chat clients at first glance. For example, there is no icon or button to place your text in ...

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If you’ve been dying to hold group chats while working on collaborative Word and PowerPoint documents inside Office Online, the feature is now live. Following Microsoft’s announcement in late November ...

Valve has announced that users now have access to a beta feature that enables them to filter unwanted words from chat, preventing conversations from being derailed. The feature is available now ...