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Google takes two with Gmail-SMS chat
Google takes two with Gmail-SMS chat
Google hopes the second time will be a charm for a Gmail Labs feature that lets people send text messages to people's mobile phones with the company's Web-based e-mail service. "A few weeks back, we ran into a few snags when we first started rolling this out, but starting today you can ...
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Tasks
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Tasks
gmailblog.blogspot.com — Monday, December 08, 2008 3:51 PM Posted by Jonathan Terleski, Michael Lancaster, and Brett Lider, Tasks team... People use Gmail to get stuff done, so we've added a lightweight way to keep track of what you need to do, right from within Gmail. Take ... (more) Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Tasks
Google takes Chrome out of Beta
techcrunch.com — Google vice president Marissa Mayer announced Google Chrome is coming out of beta in an interview with... Michael Arrington at LeWeb 08. The Google’s open source browser has a number of eager customers, including OEMs who can’t offer the ... (more) Google takes Chrome out of Beta
Official Gmail Blog: Really new in Labs this time: SMS Text Messaging for chat
Official Gmail Blog: Really new in Labs this time: SMS Text Messaging for chat
gmailblog.blogspot.com — Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:32 PM Posted by Leo Dirac, Product Manager How often do you try... to chat with somebody and they don't respond because they just walked away from their computer? Or maybe you're in the middle of chatting with them just as ... (more) Official Gmail Blog: Really new in Labs this time: SMS ...
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SMS text messaging for chat in Gmail is now for real
PalmAddicts — ... right now, but you can send texts to your friends with US phone numbers from anywhere in the world." On the receiving end, when you get a text message from Gmail on your phone, it will come from a number in the 406 area code. You can reply to this text on your phone just like you'd reply to any other text. The reply gets routed back to our Gmail servers and shows up in your friend's Gmail chat window. Sources are from Gmail Blog, via Lifehacker & Webware. ...

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