[IAEP] Recent News: Google now offers Video Chat in Linux

[Kevin Cole]

Hi all,

Just an FYI:

Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/use-linux-now-you-can-video-chat-too.html

| Use Linux? Now you can video chat too
| Thursday, August 19, 2010 | 5:03 PM
| Posted by Tristan Schmelcher, Software Engineer
|
| If you’ve been wanting to use voice and video chat on Linux (our top
| video chat request), then we have good news for you: it’s now
| available! Visit gmail.com/videochat to download the plugin and get
| started. Voice and video chat for Linux supports Ubuntu and other
| Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming soon."

The link downloads a .deb and gives the following further detail:

| Google voice and video chat incorporates technologies from Global IP
| Solutions and Vidyo, Inc. which are covered under pending U.S. and
| foreign patent applications.