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A Year in Google -- And What 2009 Says About Its Future

mashable.com | Posted 12.29.2009 | Technology


When historians look back on 2009, they'll be forced to acknowledge Google's role in shaping the future of how we search, how we browse, how we commun...

My Beef with Gmail

Andrew Sniderman | Posted 12.26.2009 | Technology


Andrew Sniderman

we are increasingly exposing ourselves to others. The insidious genius of Gmail is that its users consent to self-surveillance. Just as my Inbox stores messages to me, my outgoing messages are stored in the Inboxes of the recipients -- and in the cloud.

Free Christmas Card Ideas: Google Gives Out FREE Holiday Postcards

mashable.com | Posted 12.03.2009 | Technology


If you're not usually the card-mailing type, Google has you covered. The company has launched a Gmail holiday card service. Using the Web form, you ca...

"Don't Be Evil": How Larry Page and Sergey Brin Really Think and Should We Worry About Google's Dominance

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books


Anis Shivani

We shall see if Larry and Sergey's collective brain can keep up with the spontaneous evolution of the Internet.

The End Of The Email Era

Wall Street Journal | JESSICA E. VASCELLARO | Posted 10.11.2009 | Technology


Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over. In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold--ser...

New Bear Stearns Email Reveals Early Fear of "Blow-Up Risk"

Reuters | Grant McCool | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business


NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of two former Bear Stearns managers indicted for fraud over the collapse of hedge funds in 2007 feared a "blow up risk" to in...

Let My Data Go!

Brian Fitzpatrick | Posted 11.26.2009 | Technology


Brian Fitzpatrick

By not locking our users, we force ourselves to focus more on innovation as a means of retaining our users, and we'd love nothing more than to see every web service company follow suit.

Recent Gmail "Crash" Forces Spammers to Awkwardly Approach Potential Customers in Person

Ben Berkon | Posted 11.24.2009 | Comedy


Ben Berkon

"If this is a trend [with Google], I don't know how I'm going to convince people that 'gorgeous sluts are waiting to meet you,'" said an anonymous spammer.

GMail DOS: GMail Under Attack? (PHOTO)

Posted 11.24.2009 | Technology


GMail users are being asked to fill out a CAPTCHA when they log on to GMail. It is believed that GMail, which was down earlier today, suffered a denia...

GMail Returns After Outage: Vent About How It Affected You

Posted 11.24.2009 | Technology


GMail, which had been experiencing problems accessing contacts and sending messages, has been fixed. All the service capabilities of the Google Mail a...

Inside the App -- GPush

Ben Jabbawy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology


Ben Jabbawy

GPush, the app my team and I built this summer, was the first to offer push Gmail notifications to the iPhone. At its peak, GPush ranked 17th on Apple's most-downloaded list.

Gmail Down: Here's How To Check Status

Huffington Post | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media


***UPDATE, 5:40 PM ET*** GMail appears to be back up and running and Google says the problem should be resolved. * * * * Google says its email se...

Goog The Underdog?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Google has jumped the shark. Google is going to invade your backyard and drain your above-ground pool. Goog this. Goog that. Boo!

Why Washington Needs to Keep Its Eye On the Cloud

Sean Donahue | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


Sean Donahue

Recognizing the power of cloud computing would create jobs, promote innovation and help organizations of all sizes become more competitive.

GMail Officially Drops "Beta" Label

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — After more than five years officially in testing mode, Gmail is finally graduating from "beta." Google Inc. says its e-mail service ...

All-You-Can-Consume Media, One Byte At A Time

Aileen Kwun | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living


Aileen Kwun

While checking my morning emails and going about my usual business a few days ago, I received a frightening alert: my Gmail account was reaching near capacity.

GMail Offline: Google To Make Mail Functional Without Internet Signal

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business


SAN FRANCISCO — Now there's one less excuse for not dealing with your e-mail. Google Inc. is giving people a way to manage their e-mail even wh...

Move Over Skype: Gmail Launches Video and Audio Chatting

Eric Kuhn | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business


Eric Kuhn

Google will be competing with Skype, the popular application which allows people to make free video and audio calls. But already, people are moving towards Gmail.

Gmail's Drunk Emailing Protection: Email Goggles

Gmail Blog | Jon Perlow | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business


Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night ...

Gmail Outage: Internet Resorts To 140-Character Complaints As Email Site Goes Down

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business


Gmail appears to be functioning on private domains and personal accounts again. For those still feeling the hurt from the Gmail outage, the HTML vers...

The Future of Email: Evolve or Die?

Megan Berry | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business


Megan Berry

Once upon a time email was novel. People were happy to get email, it was easy to deal with, and it was convenient. It was the wave of the future and it was going to make us more productive.

Why Europeans Can't Have Gmail

ABC News | Michael S. Malone | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business


To paraphrase Carl von Clausewitz, economic war is also politics by other means -- especially in the European Union. As you may have read this week, ...

Gmail Spam Doubles

InfoWorld | Jeremy Kirk | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Spam originating from Google's Gmail domain doubled last month, indicating that spammers are still defeating the CAPTCHA , the distorted text used as ...