Gmail Doesn’t Want You to Ever Use Another Webmail Provider Again
searchenginejournal.com 5/14/2009 — Google is continously improving the features of Gmail. Whereas before forwarding your Gmail messages to other webmail services has been pretty simple, now Google is doing the reverse, by providing you with a simple way of migrating your contacts and email from other webmail service to Gmail. ...

Import Contacts and Mail to Gmail
googlesystem.blogspot.com 2/9/2009 — Gmail includes some options that let you import contacts and messages, but they're not very easy to use and migrating data to Gmail is not straightforward. But things are about to change: Google has partnered with TrueSwitch and Gmail will start to ...

Gmail Makes Email Switching Easier [Switch]
lifehacker.com 5/14/2009 — Been looking to move a friend or relative to Gmail, but they complain the move from AOL, Hotmail, or their ISP email would be painful? Let 'em know Gmail now offers an easy switching tool. New...

Stuck On Hotmail? Gmail Just Made It Incredibly Easy To Switch
techcrunch.com 5/14/2009 — Since launching back in 2004, Gmail has set the gold standard for webmail clients, offering a large amount of storage and a highly usable interface, free of charge. But for many people it has remained out of reach - no matter how appealing Gmail ...

Gmail Tasks Keeps It (Too) Simple [To-do List]
lifehacker.com 7/16/2009 — A late arrival to the crowded space of web-based to-do lists, Gmail Tasks has graduated from experimental status and is now available to all users by default. Should you start moving your to-do's...

April 1, 2004: Gmail Hits Webmail G-Spot
wired.com 4/1/2009 — 2004: Google unveils Gmail. It will change webmail ... and a few other things as well. Five years ago, if we wanted to talk to somebody halfway around the world, we'd open up Outlook, Eudora or some other bulky piece of software on our desktops ...

No More Excuses, Grandpa: Gmail Now Imports Mail and Contacts from Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL [Gmail]
gizmodo.com 5/14/2009 — In an effort to scoop up some of those people who are tethered to their current webmail services by nothing except the sheer inconvenience of switching, Google has implemented easy migration tools for straggling Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL users. The ...

Official Google Blog: 5 years of Gmail
googleblog.blogspot.com 4/3/2009 — It was five years ago yesterday that Gmail launched by giving out a gig. Back then, a typical webmail account could only store about five megabytes of mail. It's hard to remember what those days were like, considering that today, you can send a ...

Gmail now imports mail and contacts from Yahoo!, Hotmail, and dozens of other services
obsessable.com 5/14/2009 — Google hopes the new feature will help win over users who've been too invested in competing services to take the plunge into Gmail. While Google's Gmail has been considered by many in the tech community to be the gold standard of web-based e-mail, it hasn't been the most popular. This ...

Mobile Gmail Showdown: The Webapp Versus a Mail Client [Gmail]
lifehacker.com 4/8/2009 — Now that Google's made some much-needed improvements to Gmail's mobile webapp, should you abandon your smartphone's email client for its browser? Let's find out. Sadly yesterday's Gmail...

Google makes breaking up with Hotmail, Yahoo! easy to do — The Register 5/14/2009
Bats lashes with contacts, email tool Google has added a feature to its popular Gmail service that allows users to easily import email and contacts from their Hotmail, Yahoo! et al accounts.…

Google Grinds To A Halt For Many — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 5/14/2009
I haven't been able to access Gmail and other Google services for several hours now. I am not alone. Users all over the U.S. are reporting service interruptions.

Google Makes It Easier To Migrate To Gmail — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 5/14/2009
The tool is available in all newly created Gmail accounts and is being rolled out to older ones over the next few days.

Google Service Outage Stirs Tweet Storm — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 5/14/2009
Gmail, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Analytics, YouTube, AdSense, and Blogger experienced outages Thursday morning, according to discontented Twitter users.

Google Says Outage Caused By Traffic Routing Error — Today @ PC World 5/14/2009
Google says an outage that knocked Gmail, YouTube, Google News, and even the google.com offline was caused by a 'traffic routing error.'