Here’s another idea that should never have made it out the petri dish at Google Labs. Gmail, which I like, has added a new feature to prevent you from sending email that you might later regret. You can enable a new feature in Gmail called Mail Goggles which will prompt you to solve some math problems after you click ‘Send’ to verify you’re in the right state of mind and that you are sure you really want to send the email. Luckily, the pesky thing is only active by default late at More»

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LimitNone LLC, a tiny start-up that builds a tool for migrating customers off Microsoft’s Outlook email software and on to Google’s Gmail as filed a trade secrets lawsuit against Google.
The suit claims that Google had initially promoted the migrating tool. Google then copied the idea and went into competition with LimitNone.
LimitNone is seeking reimbursement from Google of actual damages, attorney’s fees and punitive damages. LimitNone’s case details the company’s meetings starting in March 2007 with Google to build a tool it named, “gMove.” This tool was used to move the e-mail, address books More»

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There are reportedly plans underway to transform your email into a social network. Yahoo and Google are looking at turning their e-mail systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into social networks.
“Web-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook calls the social graph — the connections between people. That’s why the social networks offer to import the e-mail address books of new users to jump-start their list of friends. Yahoo and Google realize that they have this information and can use it to build their own services that connect people to their contacts.”
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Google’s Gmail, (Nasdaq: GOOG) announced that Gmail users will have access to IMAP. IMAP allows users to synchronize their e-mail across multiple devices.
This will be good news to users of iPhone and third party email clients that utilize the Gmail service. With IMAP if you delete an email from one device that action will be synced with Gmail so that you do not have to delete the same message twice. Presently Gmail uses POP which downloads the email to the device however actions performed on the device are not synced with More»

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