Tag: gmail
Trouble in the clouds: Gmail glitch loses data, erases some users
Less than a week after Google Calendar lost some users' events, Gmail has proven its fallibility too by losing some users' emails. Yesterday 500,000 Gmail accounts went offline for a while, with some of the users finding themselves facing…
Google introduces priority email for mobiles
If you are feeling frustrated from having to sift through dozens of emails on your tiny phone screen every day, help is at hand – Gmail priority mail is going mobile. Using the same technology which makes its spam…
Gmail gets updated: new look navbar, contacts tab
A couple of changes have been introduced for users of Google's webmail service, Gmail, today. Cleaning up the interface slightly, there's now a new navbar as well as a revamped contacts tab. The left hand column has been reorganised, with…
Gmail gets drag-and-drop attachment save function
People who use Google's Gmail email service through their Chrome browser will wake to find that they can now save attachments simply by dragging them to their desktops or folders. Hovering over the attachment icon reveals the new function, which…
Hotmail to get extensive update this summer
Long since migrated from Microsoft's Hotmail webmail service to Google's Gmail? Well Microsoft are looking to rein you back in over the course of the summer, as they today revealed details of a major update. Taking a leaf out of…
Gmail trademark dispute settled in the UK
Google's Googlemail email service is to revert back to its previous name Gmail in the UK after the search giants finally settled an ongoing trademark dispute. Until the mid 00s, UK users called the service Gmail along with the rest…
Qualcomm product causes butterfly attacks — The best tech April Fools?
April Fools day is a big deal for tech companies. Google have turned the annual day of japery and tomfoolerly into an art form — last year announcing Gmail's autoreply feature which analysed the way you replied to your emails…
Google Buzz social network: Buzzing or boring?
Google have entered the social networking fray with their new Buzz network. It's not the first time they've tried their hand at social networking (their Orkut network has a very respectable 100 million users), but by integrating it into…
Censorship in China may force Google.cn to close
A post on the Google blog titled "A New Approach to China" has revealed Google's plans to stop censoring search results gathered at their .cn domain. The decision follows a number of attacks on the Gmail accounts of Google users…
CES 2010: Lenovo ready Skylight smartbook
If you're looking for the missing link between your netbook and your smartphone, then you should be checking out the new smartbook concepts doing the rounds at this year's CES. Falling somewhere between your smartphone and laptop, the Lenovo…
