h3a name="115948204621029186"Now anyone can Talk/a/h3 p class="byline-timestamp"9/28/2006 06:04:00 PM/p span class="byline-author"Posted by Mike Jazayeri, Product Manager, Google Talk/spanbrbrLast year, we launched a title="Google Talk" href="http://www.google.com/talk"Google Talk/a,a free and easy service for making voice calls and sending instantmessages. It used to be that only Gmail users could use Google Talk butnow a title="anyone can sign up" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=talk"anyone can sign up/a for Google Talk. If you haven't tried the service yet, here are 5 good reasons to give it a try:brullinow anyone can use the service (Gmail accounts no longer required)/lilifree and crystal clear a href="http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=23991"voice calls/a to your friends and family anywhere in the world/lilia href="http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=44253"transfer files/a and folders to others/lilifree a href="http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=44262"voicemail/a messages (MEEP!)/lilia href="http://www.blackberry.com/googletalk"IM from your BlackBerry/a/li/ulJust a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=talk"sign up/a,invite some friends, and you can be chatting with them in minutes.There are millions of people around the world to chat with! There are,however, still some features including chat histories and mailnotifications that will only work if you sign into Google Talk with aGmail account. Either way, we encourage you to give it a try.brbr
brbrdont need gmail anymore to use google talk , just use your google account.brbr