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Gmail Opens up Contact Importing for Everyone
It wasn’t long ago that the Gmail team added the feature to import your old mail and contacts to Gmail. Only catch, was that it was only available to new users, since they’d be the most likely to benefit from the process. But, they’ve finally made the feature available to their entire user base.
Gmail Grabs Number Three Email Spot from AOL
Gmail shed its beta tag in July, after having been around for five years. However, Gmail has acquired a different tag now: that of the third most popular webmail service in the US, at least according to internet research firm comScore. Gmail leapt past AOL to take the third spot during the month of July, a month in which it entertained 37 million unique visitors as opposed to 36.4 million users that visited AOL.
iGoogle Introduces Social Gadgets
iGoogle already gives you plenty of ways to keep in touch, whether it be Gmail, Latitude or keeping up with the day’s news. But, never one to leave well enough alone, the folks at Google have decided to bolster their army of gadgets in the interest of making iGoogle a more social experience.
Chrome is 30 Percent Faster, Better, Stronger
With the recent focus on JavaScript performance, browser makers continue to claim huge performance gains with each new release, and that trend continues in the latest beta release of Google Chrome, version 3.0.195.6.
You Can “Massacre” Gmail Text Ads With Tragic-Sounding Sigs
For some time now, those of us using Gmail have had to gaze upon sponsored ads whenever we use our web mail client. But, thanks to a friendly signature using some vicious key words, that’s no longer the case.
New Chrome Beta is Faster, Shinier Than Ever
Yesterday Google released a brand new beta for their Chrome web browser, this time in the interest of ironing out kinks with some new features that they’ve added. Among the new features are an updated “New Tab,” the Omnibox, and the ability to beautify your browser by using colors, patterns and images.
Google Doesn’t Think it has a Monopoly on Ebooks
In October of last year, Google reached a $125 million settlement as part of a three-year-old class action lawsuit accusing the search engine giant of infringing publisher and author copyrights with its library-digitizing Book Search project. But that would be far from the end of things.
