{"id":118115,"date":"2015-02-03T17:26:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T15:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=118115"},"modified":"2015-02-03T17:45:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T15:45:42","slug":"google-gives-the-gtalk-kill-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/118115-google-gives-the-gtalk-kill-order.html","title":{"rendered":"Google gives the Gtalk kill order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is sending out messages to users of the Windows Google Talk desktop app that its services will be ending on 16 February 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The search giant says that the IM service will be wholly replaced by the Hangouts app, which is only available through using it\u2019s Chrome browser.<\/p>\n<p>The app will cease to function, but users will still be able to access their contacts through Gmail, and third party applications should also still be able to work with your Gtalk details.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatives messaging clients through which you can access your contacts are apps such as Pidgin, Adium and other Jabber-enabled clients.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_118101\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Google-Talk-ending.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118101\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118101\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Google-Talk-ending.png\" alt=\"Google Talk ending\" width=\"305\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-118101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Talk termination date<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Google was asked about\u00a0the notification it sent to Google Talk users, but did not immediately respond\u00a0to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/117832-google-misses-earning-targets-again.html\">Google misses earning targets, again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/117529-google-gave-wikileaks-staff-info-to-us-government.html\">Google gave WikiLeaks staff info to US government<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/117182-google-helps-spacex-raise-1-billion.html\">Google helps SpaceX raise $1 billion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is sending out messages to users of the Windows Google Talk desktop app that its services will be ending in February <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":86493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[167,13869,35],"class_list":["post-118115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google","tag-gtalk","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118121,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118115\/revisions\/118121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}