Gmail

I have been using Gmail as my sole email client for years now, and I'm a big fan. But there's one key thing I need my email client to do that Gmail doesn't offer: Follow-ups. When I send an email, I often want to be reminded if the recipient hasn't replied within a few days, so I can resend my...

Traditionally, Google's cornucopia of services were all solitary islands in Sergey Brin's vast online sea—completely solitary, and completely cut off from one another. All that changed when the company instituted its new (and controversial ) privacy policy, turning those islands of info into an...

Microsoft is upgrading its new Outlook.com webmail service so that its users can communicate with Gmail users via instant messaging. Outlook.com, which replaced Hotmail and offers a similar feature for chatting with people on Facebook and Skype, will roll out this Gmail capability over the next few...

Google’s various free cloud services are tremendous in terms of what you get for what you pay, but now the deal is getting even better. The company announced today that it will unify storage between Drive, Gmail, and Google+, which both gives users a shared pool of storage that they can distribute...

It's another win for Google -- Boston city employees make the switch to some of the search giant's business services. [Read more]

The Web interface for Gmail has a very distinct look. Your office mates can probably recognize it at a glance. This Chrome extension, however, might cause a few double-takes in your office: Gmail Offline, an extension by Google, puts a completely different face on Gmail, making it more similar to...

It looks like Microsoft has lost another customer to Google. This time, it’s the city of Boston, which is shifting its roughly 20,000 employees from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps for Business. The Boston Globe reports that mayor Thomas M. Menino has been pushing hard for technological...

Google adds slight changes that allow iPhone and iPad users to now choose Google defaults for viewing YouTube videos and Google Maps, or for Web browsing.

Gmail for iOS was updated today to version 2.2.7182, and folks who use the app to grab their Gmail-flavored email are going to be happy. First, there's now a way to sign out of individual accounts. In the past, signing out of one account was impossible -- you had to sign out of all of them at once....

Google's commitment to its iPhone and iPad apps isn't stopping, as it has released an update for Gmail for iOS, now available on the App Store. Most notably, the update released by Google circumvents Apple's default apps, opting for its own apps already...