Not so fast with the Hotmail jokes- additional 20K addresses compromised on GMail, AOL, Earthlink

Yesterday, when it was revealed that tens of thousands of Hotmail addresses and passwords were posted on a code-sharing site, everyone had a bit of a go at the remaining Hotmail users who haven't abandoned the service ... continue

Yes, really: Judge orders GMail account closed because user received unsolicited e-mail

Use your GMail account for everything? If you do, this story will make you seriously uneasy. (And it's not GMail's fault.) This is a scary and dangerous precedent, and it could happen to any of us that use ... continue

Gmail Service Restored Following System Shutdown

Gmail users were unable to access the Google e-mail service Tuesday afternoon. The company has since restored the service. The outage started Monday 1 p.m. Pacific time and service was restored to some users by 11:16 p.m. Tuesday, ... continue

Just in: GMail is down, for now

You can quit hitting refresh, GMail is definitely down or spotty for many users right now. Mashable reported that many frustrated tweeters are complaining about the outage (on Twitter, natch) and Google has acknowledged the intermittent access issues: “We’re ... continue

How to Make Gmail Your Ultimate Productivity Center

These days there are a proliferation of digital tools we use for productivity, for time management, for communication, for social networking, for keeping track of our lives, online and off. It can be a nightmare to keep track ... continue

GMail’s ultimate gift to mankind

I would bet that just about anyone reading this post still has one or two newsletter, or newslist, types of emails that they are no longer interested in coming into their email inboxes. These ... continue

Google’s secret to taking over the world

There is no denying the fact that Google is a big believer in cloud computing and web based software. In fact much of their future growth is built on the principal of getting as ... continue

Let’s all get a woodie over removing a beta label

While the rest of the real world is sucking back all the Michael Jackson Memorial news it can those of us in the tech world are falling to our knees to report on how ... continue

GTFO: Five years on, Google finally adds drag and drop to Gmail

Miracles do happen: Google has finally added the ability to drag and drop emails into folders/ labels some five years after launching the service. The drag and drop feature means that Gmail has come into the 21st 20th ... continue

Google Adds Message Translation Into Gmail Labs

Google has introduced a new autotranslation feature into its Gmail Labs menu. Gmail Message Translation helps you detect what language a message was sent in, then convert it into your own. Gmail Message Translation Once you enable Message Translation, ... continue

Best Gmail Feature Ever: Forgotten Attachment Detector

New features in Gmail seem to be a dime a dozen lately, from drunk email protection through to viewing YouTube videos inline. Some of the features rolled out in Gmail Labs have been useful before, but none ... continue

Gmail (Finally) Adds Inline Image Support

Gmail is finally getting more intuitive support for images within e-mails. The Google gang announced the addition of "Insert Image" functionality within Gmail Labs this morning. The feature, quite simply, lets you click on an icon to upload ... continue