SwiftKey is one of many alternative keyboards available to Android phone and tablet users -- and today it's adding one of the features of its biggest competitors, Swype.
AOL, not exactly known for its cutting-edge innovation, might have its smartest product in ages with Alto — a new email client that promises to clean up your Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, and AOL inboxes and generally make your email life easier to manage.
Searching Gmail sucks, and we all know it. Google knows it too, which is why the company released an "expanded" search feature today that not only helps you find emails within Gmail, but also pulls relevant results into Google searches.
Since its public launch in 2007, Google’s Gmail has continued to rapidly add features that make our email lives easier. Now you can add another feature that list with the new ability search inside attachments that have been sent to you.
Amazon no longer allows you to change account information over the phone, after Wired reporter Mat Honan shared his story of how weak security in Apple and Amazon led to a major hack on his digital life this week.
Banking on speed and simplicity, file-sharing service Ge.tt is now calling your favorite email service home.
Looks like those free lunches are already starting to pay off. Yahoo has moved its popular email service forward with the addition of a calendar tab and made it possible to reply to calendar invites inside mail, the company announced …
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Microsoft’s new Outlook.com mail service may finally drive some much-needed innovation in email. (Disclosure: I have Microsoft stock from my time as an employee there.)
Box CEO Aaron Levie tweeted, “Someone has apparently slipped an innovation drug into Microsoft’s water …
Google really, really wants you to use Google+. And we know one thing for certain: Resistance is futile.
In its latest move, the company is adding Google+ Hangouts to Gmail, continuing its efforts to bring the services closer together. Hangouts …
Google has just acquired Sparrow, a company that has gained notoriety for its innovative iOS and Mac e-mail clients.
“We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and …
With a keen eye for technology that could benefit users in emerging countries, Google today launched Gmail SMS, a service that will let you send and receive messages from your Gmail account via text messaging.
The service, which will initially …
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Google announced today that its Gmail service has 425 million monthly active users. That means it has blown past Hotmail for the first time, becoming the largest email service in the world.
For many years, Microsoft’s Hotmail has been the …
Google updated its iOS application for Gmail today, which has been widely criticized for not having as much functionality as its Web and Android counterparts.
The update now allows you to e-mail using the “send as” feature and provides new …
Google has added customizable backgrounds to Gmail, so you can finally set whatever picture you want as the background, the company announced today in a blog post.
Gmail has offered a small set of colorful backgrounds since the addition of …
If you’ve ever wanted to see how a single email travels from your account to someone else’s, Google has you covered with its new “Story of Send” site.
While the site appears to mostly be a push by Google to …
Another day, another improvement for Google+, the circle social network from Google — except today’s Google+ update might actually have you spending less time on the social site.
Starting Tuesday, Google+ is getting more fully integrated with Gmail, meaning that …
Google has graduated its message translation feature from Gmail Labs to all inboxes, as well as cutting some cool, helpful Labs features like Old Snakey and Mail Goggles, the company announced today.
During the past year, Google has been refining …
Update: Gmail is back online.
Google’s popular email service Gmail is having a bad day, as a myriad of users are complaining of 500 errors when trying to access their accounts, the company confirmed.
“Thanks everyone for the reports of …
Leaving Google behind, Dave Girouard is leaving to launch his own startup, backed by Kleiner Perkins, NEA, and Google Ventures.
The company is called Upstart, and it lets you “raise capital in return for a small portion of your future …
Earlier in February, news broke that social network LinkedIn was buying Rapportive, a company that makes a Gmail add-on for contacts. On Wednesday Rapportive made it official and announced the news on its company blog.
No word yet on the …
