Yahoo is rolling out a major update to its free email service for web and mobile users. The latest version of Yahoo Mail takes some of its cues from Gmail, which isn’t a surprise since Yahoo’s new chief Marissa Mayer was a major player in the Google empire before moving to Yahoo. But in some […]
Google now delivering ads in the Gmail app for Android
As expected, Google has started pushing out ads in the latest version of its Gmail app for Android. Dutch site AndroidWorld has posted a few pictures showing what the new ads look like. The ad units are clearly marked as ads, and they’re a different color than your regular email messages. But because of the […]
Ads coming to Gmail app for Android
Google Android may be installed on more smartphones than any other mobile operating system, but since Google offers the software for free, the company doesn’t actually make money from Android. Instead, Google figures that the more time people spend interacting with its services such as Google Search, Gmail, and Google Maps, the more money the […]
Gmail for mobile and web gets automatic labels, new tabbed UI
Google has unveiled a new design for its Gmail apps for web, Android, and iOS. The update will roll out over the next few weeks, and it brings a new design with an emphasis on tags and tabs. Gmail will automatically detect different types of messages and apply tags or labels to them. The auto-generated […]
Gmail lets you email attachments up to 10GB with Google Drive integration
Google is adding a new feature to Gmail that lets you use Google Drive to send large files as attachments. How large? Up to 10GB. That’s about 400 times larger than the 25MB limit on traditional Gmail attachments. When you’re composing an email, you’ll now have the choice of hitting the paperclip icon to attach […]
Outlook.com launches, works well on small screens
Microsoft took the wraps off Outlook.com today, and there are plenty of reasons to be excited. It’s a massive improvement over Hotmail in many ways, not the least of which is how well it’s suited to smaller screens. As you’d expect from anything Microsoft has designed recently, the Metro design language has been liberally applied […]
Mozilla is (nearly) ceasing development of Thunderbird email app
Thunderbird is probably the most popular open source email, calendar, and contact management app. It’s basically an open source answer to Microsoft Outlook, capable of running on Linux, Mac, and Windows computers. But desktop email clients aren’t as popular as they once were, with many email users just logging into Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail using […]
Gmail now offers 10GB of storage
Remember when Google launched Gmail and promised you’d never have to delete an old email message again? The company offered 1GB of free storage space at a time when few competitors in the web-based email business were offering more than 10MB. And Google has added a little more space for Gmail users every day since […]
BlackBerry PlayBook finally getting BBM and native email
The BlackBerry PlayBook has made a respectable showing in the tablet market so far. RIM isn’t blowing through PlayBook inventory like iPad 2s, but with more than half a million shipped and strong sales posted in some corners of the globe, things are looking pretty rosy for the Waterloo company. Next month, the PlayBook is […]
Android apps, native contact, calendar, email apps coming to the BlackBerry PlayBook soon
Research in Motion has already stated that it would release native PIM (personal information management) apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Now we have something approaching a time frame. At the BlackBerry World keynote this morning officials promised that calendar, contact, and email apps would arrive this summer. Right now the only way to use calendar, […]