Gmail outage now over, Google says

Google's e-mail service, Gmail, should be "back up and running as usual," according to the company, after an outage Tuesday that affected a "majority" of its millions of users.

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Gmail knocked offline for `majority' of users

Google Inc.'s Gmail service was knocked offline Tuesday in an outage that the company said affected a "majority" of its millions of e-mail users, including consumers who get Gmail for free and businesses that pay for a version for their employees.

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Google juices up Gmail with video channel

Google Inc. is introducing new tools that will convert its free e-mail service into a video and audio channel for people who want to see and hear each other while they communicate.

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Gmail allowing remote log-off in case you forget

One of the benefits of Web-based e-mail is the ability to log on from just about anywhere — at home, at work, a friend's house, a mobile device or even a public library or cybercafe.

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Bush lobbies Congress to pass free-trade deals

A concrete mixer. Crates of cauliflower. A Harley-Davidson. Chunks of cheese?

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Gmail Becomes More Widely Available

Google Inc.'s e-mail service is almost ready to accept all comers, nearly three years after the online search leader shook up the Internet by offering users an unprecedented amount of free storage and displaying ads based on the content of the correspondence.

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Google to Unveil New Chat Feature

Online search engine leader Google Inc. is wedding its instant messaging and e-mail services in the same Web browser, hoping the convenience will lure users from the larger communications networks operated by its chief rivals.

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Internet search giant Google has lifted the lid on its operating system, known as Chrome OS. The free and open source system is initially aimed at low-cost netbooks and does away with many of the features of a traditional program.

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It has emerged that yesterday's news of 10,000 Hotmail accounts being hacked was merely the tip of the iceberg and 20,000 AOL, Yahoo, Comcast, Earthlink and Gmail accounts have also been compromised.

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In one of its earliest SEC filings, Google's founders wrote an unusual letter saying one of the corporation's key tenets is: "Don't be evil" and to do "good things for the world." But it's not always easy to do good while following the law.

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Google's Gmail web-based email service has been restored for millions of users worldwide after an outage lasting at least two hours, the company says.

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GMail down

Well it's evening here in the UK and I was hoping for an important email to allow me to finish an application to register a charity. Only trouble is that googlemail has died. Gmail help is stating:

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We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now — we are too, and we definitely feel your pain.

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A California court has issued a subpoena demanding Google reveal the IP addresses of journalists writing for a corruption busting journal from the Caribbean.

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The folks at Gmail always seem to be adding new features that help you organize your life. And the innovation seems to be paying off.

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Google's Gmail is the fastest-growing e-mail service on the planet, but it has a way to go to catch Yahoo's still-growing market share.

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Good thing Gmail is out of beta. It is now the third largest Web mail service in the U.S. In July, Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million for AOL, according to comScore estimates. That puts Gmail within sight of the No.

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There's some excitement around the web today among a certain group of high profile techies. What are they so excited about? Something called WebFinger, and the fact that Google is apparently getting serious about supporting it. So what is it?

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If Google search revolutionized the Web, and Gmail revolutionized free e-mail, then one thing's for sure: Google Voice, unveiled Thursday, will revolutionize telephones.

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Quite a few of you use Gmail's custom "From:" to send messages with one of your other email addresses listed in place of your Gmail address.

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In an era of ubiquitous broadband, smartphones, and users who manage multiple computers and devices, it just makes sense to move your email, photos, documents, calendar, notes, finances, and contacts to awesome web applications like Gmail, Evernote, Flickr, Google Docs, Mint, etc.

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When it comes to email, less is more. So I applaud Gmail's efforts to try to reduce all the unwanted emails in my inbox. Its latest attempt to make it easier to unsubscribe from unwanted email newsletters is well-intentioned, but falls flat on its face in its current form.

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Ever sign up for a newsletter and then regret it later and feel too lazy to go back to the source and unsubscribe? Well, instead of just marking the messages as spam and hoping the problem goes away you, can use a new Gmail feature to solve the problem.

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Many people have a lot of information just sitting there on Google's servers including personal appointments (Calendar), correspondence (Gmail), work and personal documents (Google Docs) and online reading habits (Google Reader).

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Here's the latest invention from the Gmail labs team: a verified accounts key to help distinguish spam from a legit email.

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The beta days are over at Google, at least for some of its most popular applications. As we predicted two months ago, Google is finally taking the beta label off of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and GTalk today. And it is about time.

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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.

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Gmail is constantly adding features to help people become more organized. Today, Google has tweaked its Labels feature to add more functionality to the labels toolkit, helping users implement labels in a more organized way.

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Google Brought To Its Knees - Search Giant is Offline

As of approximately 20 minutes ago, it seems that the search giant is taking a little nap - Google Search, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Reader, and critically, Google Apps, all appear to be offline.

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Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected.

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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.

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Gmail was down for an unknown amount of time today. Judging by the talk on Twitter some people were still having issues several hours after Google said the problem had been fixed.

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