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Gmail Voice Is set Future Search, Not Free Calls [Google]

Sex, Bombs and Burgers author Peter Nowak explains how Google Voice in Gmail has nothing to do with supplying you with free phone calls. It's actually here to assist Google perfect the subsequent generation of search. Yesterday's most enjoyable news was Google's ...

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iPad Gmail Gets New Streamlined Interface [Gmail]

Gmail on the iPad: not as simple accurately! At the least it wasn't, what with those two toolbars to juggle. But now that there's a stacked card interface, all feels right with the sector. Or at the very least, righter. What's different exactly? That usually confusing second toolbar has disappeared, for starters. As a substitute, a ...

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Gmail Contacts Receives Minor Improvements [Gmail]

Another week, another change to web-based Gmail. This time the contacts section has received a lick of paint, with keyboard shortcuts, organization by surnames and custom labels being only some of the improvements. Test it out from today. [GmailBlog]Source

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Rapportive Adds Live-Updating Sidebar Profiles to Gmail [Gmail]

Rapportive is a plugin for Firefox, Safari and Chrome that adds a sidebar on your Gmail messages, inserting data pulled from Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and elsewhere, in addition as providing you with room to take notes for your contact. It\'s very like Xobni, an add-on for Outlook that does all these items in addition ...

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Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop Saving for Attachments [Gmail]

Saving attachments from Gmail just got a whole lot easier-in the event you\'re using Chrome. The newest update permits you to save attachments by clicking, dragging, and dropping them wherever you\'d like. Simple enough, but an extremely welcome feature for many who don\'t prefer to save everything to an analogous place. Your download still goes through ...

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When privacy meets hypocrisy: Blizzard Real ID edition

If Blizzard wanted to spark a discussion, well, job done. The company’s plan to bring Real ID to its message boards has done nothing if not freak people out. Do keep freaking out. Before I get into thisí¢Â€Â”againí¢Â€Â”I’d like to preface it with the following: I would not be surprised if Blizzard announced the new system ...

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Little mailbox tells you when you’ve got mail

Oh, Brando, is there anything you can’t sell? This $18 USB device is basically a little mailbox that lights up when your friends email you. Why? Who cares! It’s $18!

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India could ban Blackberry, Skype and Gmail

The Department of Telecom (DoT) in India could very well place a ban on BlackBerry devices, Skype as well as Gmail services if they do not comply with the government’s request to ensure that data going through their networks will be made available to …

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A look at some of Chrome OS’s latest bits of polish

The release of Chrome OS looms ever closer, but still there are a number of enhancements and changes being rolled in that should make for a somewhat nicer experience, and TechCrunch has highlighted a few. Perhaps most major among those changes is the ability to browse the internet without signing in, but if you want to update your bookmarks or save any form data you’ll still need a Google account. There’s a new side bar that appears to give access to other apps, replacing tabs on top, and it also adds in battery and WiFi strength indicators. There’s also something of a debate going on regarding whether Chrome OS should have support for compressed archives (.zip and .rar files and the like). Right now the OS has no support for those files, which, as one contributor points out, is rather unfortunate given that Gmail itself generates zip files when you click “download all attachments.” Let’s hope someone at the Googs finds time to add that in so that future users aren’t locked out of the joys of extraction.

A look at some of Chrome OS’s latest bits of polish originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google To Offer Google Voice VoIP In Gmail?

This is still a rumor at this point, but word is that Google is testing integration of Google Voice into Gmail’s chat program, allowing users to make phone calls directly from their PC using the Google Voice service. This would obviously involve VoIP technology, allowing users to start a voice call from their computers and have it connect to a regular phone line, similar to Skype. If the rumor is accurate, this service will be launched via a phone icon inside the Gmail chat window, launching a number pad, allowing users to find contacts, check their credit balance and place a call. Do you think Google will charge for this service if the search engine giant does roll it out?

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Google Maps Preview In Gmail

Do you often receive an email that mentions the address of a place within the text? Sometimes we aren’t really sure where the place is, and have to copy the address into Google Maps to find out where it is. Google’s latest “Google Maps previews in mail” Lab experiment should go some way to help you solve that issue. With it enabled, whenever you receive a US address in your email, a preview will appear, offering you an interactive Google Map of the location, allowing you to instantly figure out where the location that the email is talking about is. Seems like a pretty useful feature, and one that you can be sure many folks would appreciate.

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Microsoft responds to Google moving away from Windows, calls it ironic

Google made some waves earlier this week by reportedly moving employees off of Windows and onto Mac OS X and Linux machines — although the company wouldn’t confirm the switch, the move was said to be precipitated by security issues after Chinese hackers attacked the search giant back in January. Now, that wasn’t the only reason mentioned in the report — Google apparently also wants employees to use home-grown products like Chrome OS, and it’s sort of weird for Google to buy tons of software licenses from a major competitor — but the implication that Windows isn’t secure enough for Google seems to have raised Microsoft’s hackles: a new post on the Windows Team Blog says the irony of the move is “hard to overlook” as Gmail and Google Docs have privacy and security issues of their own, offers a point-by-point breakdown of all the ways Windows 7 is more secure than the competition, and goes on to suggest that a recent piece of shady Mac OS X malware is “a future sign of things to come for Apple and security.” Meow. Now, we honestly think the real story is as simple as Google not wanting to write Microsoft a really big check, but we’re not going to say no to a little fight here — Eric, Steve, you have anything to say?

Microsoft responds to Google moving away from Windows, calls it ironic originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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