GMail introduces Reply by Chat. What it is actually? Okay, when you have an e-mail from one of your contact who is online on GTalk or Gmail then you will see the "Reply By Chat to….. " option available near to your contacts message. So what you can do is, just click the button [...]

Wall Street Journal has confirmed that the included VoIP app will indeed be, as we anticipated, Google Talk. Unfortunately this means that the device will still be unable to call regular phone numbers out of the box, although G Talk members will at least be able to chat among themselves for free. [...]

Jon Perlow, Software Engineer, Gmail and Google Talk
When we launched Google Talk, some people told us what a great idea it’d be to add chat to Gmail. True that. So a couple of us Google Talk engineers approached the Gmail team. They were excited about the idea, and we got to work immediately — spending [...]