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Google+ gets poll feature, Hangouts video

The app, shown here on a Chromebook, runs outside a browser window. Google Google on Thursday introduced two new social software features: A polling feature for Google+, the company’s social network, and an app for its Hangouts video chat service that works with Google’s Chrome operating system and Windows desktop computers and lets people chat outside of a browser window. …

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The next Apple TV: What to expect from an updated streaming box

The image next to “long in the tooth” in the tech dictionary. Sarah Tew/CNET Back in March 2012, there was no Chromecast, no Amazon Fire TV , and no iPad Mini . The current iPhone was the 4S, and HBO Go was brand-new on the Xbox 360 . Streaming video and Apple itself have both come a long way since …

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