Posts Tagged "gmail"

Google intolerant to Chinese limitations

How far will Google’s non-complying attitude towards the next world’s super power take them?
Currently, Google is actually threatening to pull out of China and stop censoring its search results which could actually end up closing operations as a result. The Head of the Human Right’s Watch, Arvind Ganesan declared that this is the first time [...]

Google Wave invites still in demand despite eBay or Twitter

Since the very last days of September, Google Wave had clearly announced the four ways in which people could get their hands on the real-time communication platform. These were:
1. You signed up early on for a Google Wave account, which could be done through a request form Google had put up not long after the [...]

Facebook implements OpenID; the social network giant supports its community

Facebook has officially joined the OpenID movement. As explained by TechCrunch, OpenID is a distributed single sign on solution that allows people to sign into different services with the same login credentials. Some of you must be thinking, but weren’t they already open? Even though the implementation of Facebook Connect seemed as if the social [...]

Gmail Blackout and the Aftermath

The blogosphere calls it ‘GFail’ others ‘Blackout’, Google’s  3-hour outage really scared Gmail users after a software glitch crashed the service this past Tuesday.
A universe of 113 million Gmail users was left without any access whatsoever to their email accounts, which was thought to be a temporary thing, however, it lasted more than expected.
Consequently, Google [...]

Offline Gmail….Yipee!!

I can’t even begin to tell you the number of times in which I’ve had to steal wireless Internet from my neighbors (usually happens when I’m back home in Venezuela) or when wi-fi fails mercilessly at state-of-the-art airports such as the Charles de Gaulle in Paris when you need it the most.
Offline Gmail is currently [...]

Too much alcohol in your system? Gmail Goggles saves the day

Have you ever regretted an email you wrote when you were wicked drunk? Then Gmail’s Goggles is the thing for you!
The new Gmail lab applet helps you test whether you are sober when you are trying to send an email, by giving you simple math problems. Look here:

By default it works on Friday and Saturday [...]

Google Presently, works pleasantly

Google’s new online collaboration feature is called Presently. It’s a presentation tool which works according to the same principles as Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets, and is basically a stripped down version of PowerPoint. As opposed to the new PowerPoint 2007, however, we think Presently is very easy to use and has simple and intuitive [...]

Privacy Report: Major Internet players gathering private information

Google has been under fire a lot lately, concerning their collection and protection of behaviour information of users. We at

77 reported earlier that a European Union group demanded Google re-evaluate their protection of private information. Not much later, privacy groups in the US have filed [...]

Google goes offline

Google introduces Gears, an ‘open source browser extension’ that will allow users to work offline on (at least) Google Docs and Spreadsheets and Gmail. We at 77 think that applications like that can be extremely useful for Wi-Fi laptops and mobile Internet browsers, but the marketing [...]

Gmail into another user generated advertising campaign

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