News Stories Tagged ‘gmail’

Google Adds Spam Protection By Allowing Senders To Sign E-Mails

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Google App customers will be able to take advantage of new Google technology called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). The technology will guarantee that the sender is genuine. DKIM has been employed by Google since 2008 to help Gmail users to confirm that messages from eBay and PayPal are genuine. This has helped Gmail users steer [...]

Wife Sues Husband For Reading Her Emails

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The first case of domestic unauthorized email login is being due to be tried in February 2011. The case is being brought before the court by Michigan woman, Clara Walker. She claims that her third husband, Leon Walker, accessed her email without her consent. She further alleges through her lawyer that he used the emails [...]

Google Voice Outbound Calling Stays Free Through 2011

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Google has just announced its Christmas present to the US – continued free use of Google Voice tool to all Gmail users. The announcement was made on the blog of Robin Schriebman, Google Software engineer. On December 20, Google announced that their calling option on Gmail will continue to be offered gratis to all users [...]

Priority Inbox Now On Android

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Google released Priority Inbox for Gmail users in August 2010. Internet users using Gmail had the advantage of viewing presorted emails. Today Google Priority Inbox becomes available to Android users. The Priority Inbox app presorts emails and automatically flags those messages that the Google algorithm decides you would be most interested in. The sorting of [...]

Google Launches Another Assault On Microsoft

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Google is continuing its attempt to draw Microsoft Exchange users over to its own cloud services. Google is now offering a tool, which can provide email backup and recovery to Exchange users, even if the Exchange server is not online. Furthermore the tools also offers to help Microsoft Office users to transition to Google Apps. [...]

Ebooks From Google Are Coming Soon

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Google Inc. is adding another new service to their diverse product spread. The Wall Street Journal reports that Google Editions, the Google e-book store, is almost ready to launch. This e-book store will be in direct competition to Amazon, the online book retail giant. Google had planned to launch Google Editions in the summer of [...]

Google Attempts To Attract Ms Office Users Away To The Google Cloud

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Internet giant Google has released a new product that is threatening Microsoft Office’s empire. Google Cloud Connect is designed to let any user with a Gmail account save their Microsoft Office documents in Google Docs. From here the document can be accessed by several users and edited at the same time. The new Cloud Connect [...]

Facebook Starts Email Service To Compete With Google And Microsoft

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Facebook has announced that it is implementing an email option for its users. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook said that each user will get an “@facebook.com” email address which will allow users to send emails, texts and instant messages. Facebook’s email facility will be in direct competition with Google’s Gmail facility and with Microsoft and [...]

Will Facebook Venture Into Email?

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“Project Titan” is the codename for Facebook’s new email project. Facebook has recently invited people to an event, which many believe will be the unveiling of their new email system. The new Facebook project is causing Google to become uneasy. TechCrunch says that if Facebook launches its own email service it will be in direct [...]

Firefox Goes Social With F1

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F1 was launched today by Mozilla messaging group. F1 is a Firefox extension which is intended to improve content sharing in a social web. The idea is to present one way of sharing content with your social network instead of having cluttered web pages with hundreds of “like” buttons. F1 works by providing a single, [...]