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The Los Angeles City Council has voted to go with Google for their email needs and also to use Google Apps. and more. L.A. will be the first major U.S. city to use Google over other rivals like Microsoft. This has been a hard fought win for the search giant, and if successful, could entice [...]

I doubt if there is anyone in email land who hasn’t mistakenly sent an email to the wrong recipient. When we receive the “Are you sure you meant to send this to me?” we feel stupid when we realize we didn’t. Google may have found a simple solution to this problem.
On their blog site they [...]

It is being reported that the email that was sent in error containing customer information for some 1,300 customers, was not viewed by the Gmail user who received it. So after court orders, Google intervention and a lot of discussion on the Internet, this is finally being put to rest.
According to the latest article on [...]

You may recall the case in which a Wyoming banking institution sent the records of some 1300 bank customers to the wrong Gmail address. [See original post here] The bank wanted Google to reveal the Gmail account user information but Google said not without a court order. So not only did the bank get a [...]

Over at the Gmail blog they have announced that the ability to import mail and contacts will now work with older accounts and not just new Gmail accounts. The blog site provides the following information:
A few months ago, we added the ability to import your old mail and contacts to Gmail. We made this feature [...]

Google as added a new feature over at their Google Gmail that is designed specifically for netbook users. Since the screen on the netbooks are smaller, Google has added a feature in Gmail that allows the user to remove the subject lines from the message. This saves screen real estate so you can see message [...]

Though Google is making light of their use of the word ‘beta’, they do admit to over extending the ‘beta’ length on their products. For most of us the word ‘beta’ means test version to iron out bugs. Normally ‘beta’ software becomes RTM software once the testing completes. But for Google they have some products [...]

A group of some 38 computer scientists, law professors and security experts have gathered to urge Google to secure their stuff. The group has asked Google to secure Gmail, Google Doc’s and Google Calender from prying eyes. Recommended to the search giant is secure encryption to prevent snooping by others and data loss.
Google responded [...]

The Google outage of last week will go down in history for several reasons. Besides the annoyance for people not being able to use their email it also demonstrated how quickly an Internet company can respond to an outage. I’m not talking about the software or hardware fix, I’m talking about how Google let us [...]

If you are a Google Gmail user, the search giant now has a new application that can round up all of your contacts and import them into the cloud. Called Google Contact Manager, the software can round up your contacts from popular email programs and other email systems such as Hotmail and bring them all [...]

Google has announced that they are prepared to support new technologies and start-ups with a fusion of cash. The popular search giant has stated that they will support new technologies, which brings up an interesting theory of mine. Google has invested in the electric car maker Tesla. Both of the founders of Google have also [...]

The sky is falling! Google Gmail servers were down for a few hours. After reading some of the blog reports concerning what happened, Google having issues was a great catastrophe. Over at the Google blog they reported the following:
If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probably aware by now that we’re [...]

Google continues to improve their popular email program called Gmail which now offers the ability to view multiple email inboxes in one window. The new settings located under the Labs tab can be used by anyone which the feature is activated.
According to this Google blog post it states that:
In addition to a quick view of [...]

Google has added a gadget for Gmail users that allows the user to access Google Docs. The process is fairly simple.  Just log into your Gmail account and go to Settings and click on Labs. Scroll down towards the bottom and Enable the Google Docs gadget. Make sure you select Save Changes when done. On [...]

In an effort to spice up your Gmail in box, Google will be offering a selection of new themes over the next few days. The option for a new theme will show up in your Gmail account under the setting tab. Google describes their new offering as:
Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice [...]

Google has added another feature to their popular Gmail program which now supports voice and video chat. The prerequisites requires a web cam [with mic] to be used with the Gmail system. Setup is simple and took only a matter of minutes.
According to their site Google states that:
Since sometimes reading “lol” doesn’t deliver the same [...]

The elf’s at Google seem to be working late into the night developing new features for their popular Gmail program. This time they have added gadgets for both Google Doc’s and Google Calender to Gmail. This addition will make it easier for uses of these Google programs to access their stuff while surfing the Internet [...]

The folks over at Google are busy once again adding new features to Gmail. They now have emoticons, canned responses and also an addition to their mobile clients. On their site they have listed the following information:
Canned Responses
If you’re sick of typing out the same reply every time someone emails you with a common question, [...]

There is not a week that goes by, that someone, somewhere, is not posting or blogging about a disabled Google account. The disabling of a Gmail account prohibits a user from not only using Gmail itself, but all of Google’s programs including Doc’s, Google Adsense, and other features. What continues to be disturbing is the [...]

Google has posted on their blog site a ‘we’re sorry’ page stating that they [Google] ‘feel our pain’. But do they really? In their statement the search giant states that:
 Many of you had trouble accessing Gmail for a couple of hours this afternoon, and we’re really sorry. The issue was caused by a temporary outage [...]