Posts Tagged with ‘gmail’

Today Gmail team has announced addition of yet another feature in Gmail Labs: it’s called Tasks and is intended to do exactly what the name suggests - manage your tasks as your To-Do list integrated right into your email.
Of course you should not expect to find a full-featured solution as it is understandably limited to serving as a simple task manager that could help you manage your tasks from within the email application, like when you read an email and [...]

The latest buzz from Google is the newly-launched Gmail themes that allow every user to choose exactly how your Gmail application will look like in your browser. Also Gmail team has rolled out a slight change in the overall default application interface that features a little different colors. But when on a normal day new interface for Gmail could be a hot topic for the day, today people don’t even mention it with the new Gmail Themes introduced being big [...]

It has looked for quite a while now that Google actually wants to be everywhere whenever we do just about anything online. Today we have yet another functionality introduced by Google to Gmail to make the Gmail experience even more all-inclusive: voice and video chat for Google Talk. Quite logical, of course, because “talk” should not really mean “type” probably so adding actual voice and even video to the IM only sounds like a good idea.
The feature has started rolling [...]

Today Google is rolling out an interesting functionality to Gmail Labs - sending SMS to your contacts and new phones instead of simple text messages in a chat. Quite predictably, the functionality only works in the US and ignores international users as it must involve certain agreements with carriers.
For some reason the official Gmail blog does not have any posts describing this new functionality but some reporters (including those from Webmonkey and eWeek) were briefed on the functionality so we [...]

Earlier today the Gmail for mobile team introduced version 2.0 of Gmail for Mobile, the application that enables Gmail users to easier handle their Gmail accounts on the go. This version is an upgrade of the Gmail application for Java ME and BlackBerry phones.
Working on this new release the team focused mainly on the speed and reliability of the application so the users are supposed to notice significant speed improvement and overall improved performance.
As for the user-visible feature, the most [...]

It looks like Google is absolutely positive that Gmail users are very lazy and not exactly intelligent as the Gmail team seems to be determined to help us do everything related to every single email correctly. It looks like the team has been particularly active making sure no one will even be able to make any common emailing mistakes when using the free email system by Google. There were a few examples of this activity recently with a few new [...]

Today at the Future of Web Applications conference in London Yuuguu is announcing that its screen sharing and web conferencing application is officially out of beta now. We first reviewed Yuuguu in detail when the screen sharing and web conferencing application was launched a year ago at DEMOfall. Today Yuuguu reports over 100,000 registered users of the application with the number of those using it without registering much higher since no download and registration is required to join a meeting.
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There’s a very thought-provoking article in the Guardian today about the dangers of cloud computing that resulted in quite an animated discussion in the blogosphere making people forget the tech companies stock valuations for a moment and try to figure out if we are really locking ourselves up in a trap of the much-hyped cloud computing.
True, cloud computing is obviously one of the most hyped terms these days and everyone thinks it is kind of hip and cool to rely [...]

Today there’s a very interesting story on The New Your Times blog that grabbed my attention because of its title - “Rumor Control: Why I Can’t Put “Tibet” in My Hotmail Address”. In the article David Gallagher references a reader who attempted to register an email address containing the word “Tibet” in it (it has something to do with his book about Tibet) on Hotmail but failed because the ID chosen contained “a word or phrase that is not allowed”.
The [...]