Since the time Google migrated to the new Rocket fast Search codenamed caffeine, it has way more potential left untamed.  And that’s why Google is now various ways of utilizing this horsepower — The latest being “search” as you type.

The feature, which Google confirmed it is testing on a select number of users, goes one big step beyond .. Read Further »

Scheduling an email is something everyone thinks about having at some point of time. Wishing your closed ones on various occasions (birthdays, anniversaries) or sending reminders to your business partners, colleagues, is always delightful.

Unfortunately, most email providers don’t support any of such features and the end result is that you .. Read Further »

Google is transforming the Email experience by extending the authentication to OAuth standard in it’s popular email service: Gmail. The move aims to harden the security of email accounts, after the having featured alerts for Simultaneous Logins, https implementation over last few days.

How many time did you login to your email account publicly and feared if someone might keylog you? Of course prevention is way better then the aftermath but Gmail has taken the next steps in protecting your account from simultaneous logins, preventing suspicious activities.

Now, if it looks like something unusual is going on with your account, Gmail will alert you by posting a warning message saying, “Warning: We believe your account was last accessed from…” along with the geographic region, as illustrated .. Read Further »

After Buzz came to Gmail, it makes alot more sense to have Facebook there as well. Hate it or love it, this new extension makes 70% of your Social activity, right inside the inbox.

The new Gmail Facebook Integration Chrome Extension lets .. Read Further »

Google had hinted a Social Network step to compete with Twitter, Facebook, yesterday. And it’s finally here.

It’s called Google Buzz. Works inside Gmail, Google homepage and via Phone and everything it does, it does .. Read Further »

Google has long offered the ability to use a secure connection with Gmail via settings or using https:// in the URL itself. Now Google has defaulted it to https connection.

I don’t know about the readers, but I always used secure anyway. You can still move back to http, but that would be very unjustified.

Google was .. Read Further »

It’s annoying that our Browsers and IMs don’t allow multi-user login. I can cite multiple use cases for this but I guess just no web app provider would allow it, by default.

Well, there’s a simple hack to get over it. For getting Multiple accounts logged in for any Web app, use a Firefox .. Read Further »

Tuesday’s Gmail outage went for 1 hr 40 minutes, brought a Havoc among GMail users. Google calls it a “Big Deal,” – The breakdown happened over recent changes to the request routers that direct queries to the service’s web servers. Unfortunately, traffic was underestimated, and went out of service.

What surprises us the most is this Irony — “some of the changes were meant to improve Gmail’s ability to stay online“.

But Google underestimated the load these changes would place on the routers when it took a relatively small number of servers offline for upgrades.