gmailblog.blogspot.com - 7/7/2009
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:02 AM Posted by Keith Coleman, Gmail Product Director We get asked all the time why Google keeps its products in beta for so long. And Gmail, five years after launch, is consistently a subject of this questioning, even of jokes. Some people thought that once we opened ...
googleblog.blogspot.com - 7/7/2009
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googleblog.blogspot.com —
We're often asked why so many Google applications
seem to be perpetually in beta. For example, Gmail...
has worn the beta tag more than five years. We realize this situation puzzles some people, particularly those who subscribe to the traditional ...
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Official Google Blog: Google Apps is out of beta (yes, ...
berryreview.com - 7/6/2009
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berryreview.com —
Blackberry-gmail-plugin Blackberry-gmail-plugin-2 I have been waiting to hear
this for a long time. Josep let me know...
about a thread on BlackBerryForum(de) where detailed leaked about an upcoming Enhanced Gmail Plugin. This plugin is rumored to add ...
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HOT!!! RIM Working On Enhanced Gmail Plugin – ...
techcrunch.com - 7/7/2009
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techcrunch.com —
You’d think on a phone that can do
as many cool things as the iPhone, push email...
through one of the world’s most popular email services, Gmail, would be one of them. But for some reason, Google and Apple haven’t turned on the functionality for Gmail accounts on the iPhone. ...
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Push Gmail Comes To The iPhone — Through An App (If It’s ...
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Gmail and Google Apps Leave Beta
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... for the extended “testing” period, Gmail is finally losing the Beta label today, as are all of Google Apps, including Calendar, Docs, and Talk. ...
Miss Gmail beta? Gmail launches "back to beta" labs feature
Download Squad —
... Gmail has been the butt of many jokes over the past few years, thanks to the "beta" label that would not die. 5 years after Google first launched its email service, Gmail was still considered a beta project. And while it's certainly true that all major email ...
Gmail Beta is No More, But You Can Have It Back
GEARFUSE —
backinbeta Feeling a little insecure without the friendly Gmail beta logo to keep you warm (if you haven’t heard or noticed, it’s gone, baby, gone)? No worries. Google Labs has already got you covered. Featured under their lab tools is a new widget called “Back to Beta,” which adds the “beta” signifier back to the logo, making you feel all snugly warm and clean again . Change is confusing. Luckily, it’s avoidable. Link
Gmail out of beta
SuperSite Blog —
... (which combines these and other products) balked when confronted with the Beta tag (which had been on Gmail for a silly 5 years). In typical Google fashion, they don't actually mention this salient fact, but instead make a joke out of it. I'll skip that and get to the meat of the matter... Today, beta is a thing of the past. Not just for Gmail, but for all of Google Apps — Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and Talk. And that's it. The rest of this post is utter inanity. Seriously, Google. We get it. You're frivolous. But ...
Gmail, Google Apps Step Out of Beta
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
... A lot of you must have given up all hope of seeing Gmail leave beta. But Google has finally abandoned its original plan of eternally keeping Gmail in beta and finally stripped Gmail of its beta tag. Google Apps has also left beta. Google has realized that large enterprises are not too keen to “run their business on software that sounds like it's still in the trial phase.” ...
Remember the Milk task manager exits beta in meaningless gesture
Download Squad —
... The company isn't going to start charging for access to its core services. And the developers aren't done adding and refining features. It's just that after four years, the Remember The Milk team decided the product was probably robust enough to remove the beta label... you know, kind of like Google did with Gmail not too long ago. ...
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Gmail Labels get drag and drop and other improvements
obsessable.com 7/1/2009 — Official Gmail Blog: http://bit.ly/PTBIW Google just updated Gmail with a rejiggered labeling system. You've been able to apply labels to e-mails to sort them for a long time, but now you can do so by dragging e-mails to the labels and dropping them there as if Gmail were a desktop e-mail ...
Gmail Tips - become a ninja!
gizmosforgeeks.com 7/7/2009 — Gmail user? Bet you didn’t know that you could sign out your Gmail session remotely?! If you did, then you might be considered a Gmail master.
The Google Gmail team has put together a nice set of tips grouped by ‘belt level’ so that you too can become a Gmail Ninja. As much ...
Enhanced Gmail Plug-in for BlackBerry now in testing —
Engadget Mobile
It's no secret that using Gmail on a BlackBerry is a painful experience -- since the built-in mail client has shamefully broken IMAP support, your only real choice is a variant of the same Java-based Gmail app that runs on ancient featurephones, and that rules out direct integration with ...
Enhanced Gmail For BlackBerry Coming. —
I4U News
BlackBerry users, your days of sub-par Gmail functionality may be nearing an end. Recent rumors indicate that RIM is currently working on a new Gmail Plug-In that should fix many of the issues BlackBerry owners have experienced with Gmail. See guys? Good t...
Creating a Gmail Account Requires SMS Verification —
Google Operating System
Some people report that Gmail started to require SMS verification when you create an account , a practice used in the US and other countries when Gmail wasn't publicly available worldwide. "If you'd like to sign up for a Gmail address, you need to have a mobile phone that has text-messaging ...
Gmail tweaks labels, kind of turns them into folders —
Download Squad
Google is rolling out a handful of changes to the way it handles labels in Gmail. First, labels are moving into the top left-side navigation area, right by your shortcuts for inbox, sent, starred, and other items. You can also choose to hide some labels while showing others. Probably one of ...
Gmail Adds Drag and Drop Capability —
WebProNews Feed
Gmail is consistently rolling out new features for your emailing pleasure. Just a few months ago Gmail added some keyboard shortcuts and some new buttons to make labeling simpler. Today, Gmail is adding even more to their labeling arsenal.
In regards to email, are you a label or folder fan? ...
Enhanced Gmail Plug-in for BlackBerry now in beta testing —
Engadget
It's no secret that using Gmail on a BlackBerry is a painful experience -- since the built-in mail client has shamefully broken IMAP support, your only real choice is a variant of the same Java-based Gmail app that runs on ancient featurephones, and that rules out direct integration with ...
New Gmail Plug-in Coming to BlackBerry Smartphones? —
Mobilewhack.com
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Writing emails from your Gmail account will be a lot easier for BlackBerry owners. It looks like there’s a new plug-in in the works, one that lets you access more features of Gmail. And here are some of those rumored additions:
See your Gmail based emails in Conversation View for simple ...
Gmail labels get higher placement, drag-and-drop —
Webware.com
Starting Wednesday, Gmail users will find their labels farther up the left-hand side of their screen. (Credit: Google)
Google is rolling out another tweak to its Gmail user interface that makes its labels behave a little bit more like folders.
Gmail has never used folders, at least in the ...
Enhanced Gmail Plugin for BlackBerry —
pdaBlast!
According to rumors floating around the web today, RIM is working on an enhanced Gmail plugin for the BlackBerry. Most BlackBerry and Gmail users are already frustrated because several Gmail features do not work on the BlackBerry. Read/unread status doesn't always work, and labels ...
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