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Gmail now imports mail and contacts from Yahoo!, Hotmail, and dozens of other services
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 ...
Official Gmail Blog: Import your mail and contacts from other accounts
gmailblog.blogspot.com — Wednesday, May 13, 2009 3:06 PM Posted by Chad Parry, Gmail Engineer Gmail users can be a... passionate bunch. Many of us have, at one time or another, encouraged or cajoled friends and family to join us @gmail.com. But switching email accounts can be ... (more) Official Gmail Blog: Import your mail and contacts from ...
Importing contacts and mail - Gmail Help
mail.google.com — If you choose to import contacts, the information in your contacts list in your old account will... be imported to your Contacts section in Gmail. If you select the Import mail checkbox, your existing messages in that account will be imported to your ... (more) Importing contacts and mail - Gmail Help
Cloudy day: Google, Gmail sucking wind or down; Packets lost in key cities
Cloudy day: Google, Gmail sucking wind or down; Packets lost in key cities
blogs.zdnet.com — We’re getting various reports via that Google services are down or at least sucking some serious wind.... Initial pings on Google.com show packet losses in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Australia, France, China and other locales. The Twitter ... (more) Cloudy day: Google, Gmail sucking wind or down; Packets ...
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