
Mail and messaging to mingle...
By Elinor Mills
Published: 7 February 2006 09:15 GMT
Google on Monday was set to launch Gmail Chat, which will let users send instant messages with one click from their email account, see when contacts are online and save the chat history like an email message.
The application's Quick Contacts list is synchronised with a user's Google Talk friends list and automatically displays the people a user communicates with most frequently and shows their online status. Clicking on a contact listed as being online opens a chat window in the browser.
The application lets users save their chat history for easy searching later and click an "off the record" option so that no conversation with that person going forward is saved by either party until they choose to go back on the record.
Gmail Chat is available on Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher and Firefox 1.0 and higher and in the US English interface only.
While the chat functions of Google Talk are integrated into Gmail, users must download the Google Talk client application to make voice calls.
In the US, Gmail is the fourth most popular web-based email program, and Google Talk is ranked seventh among instant messaging programs, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.
Yahoo! Mail indicates to users when their Yahoo! Messenger contacts are online and allows them to launch a dialogue with them instantly, as well as letting them make voice calls. It also allows users to check their voicemail and launch voice calling from Yahoo! Mail. AOL's AIM Triton offers integrated email, instant messaging, SMS text messaging and voice and video chat.
Elinor Mills writes for CNET News.com
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