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Google Gmail keyboard - the Gboard

Google debuts the Gboard, a specialized mini-keyboard loaded with shortcuts for Google's Gmail service. It has an asking price of $19.99. Gmail has long had keyboard shortcuts, though learning them can be difficult. Enter the Gboard, a specialized mini-keyboard for Google's e-mail service. It debuts this Friday at an...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Gboard, Keyboards, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Peripherals, Internet, Google, Gmail, Josh Lowenstein CNET News

News items 2009-12-04

Dark clouds may hurt growth efforts

ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz isn't ready to give up on cloud computing just yet, even after Google's e-mail service recently went down. But Diaz believes the infrastructure that supports the cloud needs some beefing up before it can go prime time.

Tags: Cloud, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Online Communications, Sam Diaz Memo, gmail, google

Videos 2008-08-18

Google aims to usurp campus email systems

What is missing from college campuses today? Google Apps Education Edition, of course! Not for long though, if the latest Google ambitions are fully realized.Google is promoting Google Apps on campus directly to students themselves, not university administrators or IT managers, with the goal of building student demand for Google...

Tags: Google Ads, Advertising, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google Apps, Google, Gmail

Blog posts 2007-04-10

Google hard copy email service: Gmail Paper next year

“Gmail Paper is not a real product or feature of Gmail. No, we dont plan on sending you boxes and boxes of your email in hard copy form,” so disclaims Google this April Fool’s Day.Really? Last April Fool’s, Google Romance was the supposed Googley hoax. What hoax though?Today, Google Personals...

Tags: Google, Gmail

Blog posts 2007-04-01

Gmail tips to enhance productivity

Matt Cutts, Googles best spam fighter and all around smart guy, tells us about a few things he does in Gmail to make sure he wastes as little time as possible. Since email is a necessary evil for many people who find themselves drowning in their inbox, these three...

Tags: Gmail, Google, Productivity

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Google: Stingy with click fraud refunds?

In “Google and click fraud: As wholesome as milk?” in December and “Click Fraud: Is Google fighting the wrong battle?” last month, I dissected and analyzed Shuman Ghosemajumder’s Power Point slide “proof” purporting to demonstrate how click fraud through Google can not be more than a “fraction of one percent”...

Tags: Google Software Applications, ROI, Gmail, Google, Click Fraud, Legal

Blog posts 2007-03-01

Microsoft trumps Google in Intuit QuickBooks

Almost six months ago, Steve Bennett, CEO, Intuit, sang the praises of Google “integration” into QuickBooks 2007, as of Q3 2006:Intuit is committed to partnering with best-in-class companies to help solve important customer problems. By partnering with a leading company like Google, we bring together Intuits strength in creating easy-to-use...

Tags: Gmail, Google Apps, Google Software Applications, ecommerce, Marketing, Enterprise, Google, Business Models, Local

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Google: Official security strategy for Google Apps

What is Google doing to ensure Google Apps Premier is reliable to enterprise standards? I underscored last week the importance of reliability, security and privacy to the success of Google’s new Apps for Enterprise and for a fee offering, SEE Google Apps data risks: Security vs. privacy and Google...

Tags: Google Apps, Gmail, Google Software Applications, Privacy, Google

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Is Gmail your productivity hub?

In “Google displaces Microsoft, already” last Friday, I put forth the Gmail centric productivity philosophy behind Google Apps Premier edition:Kevin Gough, product manager, Google Enterprise: Really what we did was pick that the email inbox is the hub of a productivity tool and with Google Apps that’s what we’ve focused...

Tags: Google Apps, Gmail, Search Advertising, Metrics, ROI, Google Software Applications, Enterprise, Google, Search

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Google spreads the love on Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day everyone! Google has been celebrating Valentines Day this year by giving a couple of its services Gmail and Webmaster Central a little something extra. As for Gmail, users can now sign up for the service without being invited -- even though this was falsely reported...

Tags: Gmail, Google, Google Checkout, Google Webmasters

Blog posts 2007-02-14

More security problems at Google

Philipp Lenssen writes about a new vulnerability that gives a malicious attacker the ability to basically hijack a users Google account by stealing cookies. That means any "bad guy" who knows how this works could theoretically do all of the following by impersonating you:Read and modify any document in...

Tags: Gmail, Privacy, Google, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-12

Serious Gmail vulnerability fixed

After posting my last article about the contacts "JSON API", Haochi Chen discovered that by simply appending a "callback" variable in the URL, the creators of a malicious site could gain access to a visitors entire Gmail contact list without warning. function getContactsresponse{ ...

Tags: Gmail, Privacy, Google, Google security, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-12-31

Additional Resources

Will Chrome netbooks really be competitive?

Acer, which last quarter overtook Dell to become the world's second-largest PC manufacturer, is known as an aggressive company. So it's little surprise that the company's chairman, J.T. Wang, vowed this week that Acer would be first to release a netbook using Google's Chrome OS sometime in the middle of...

Tags: Google Inc., Acer Inc., Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-12-03

Google Backup is what I want for Christmas

Google's Lenoir, North Carolina Data Center, seen during construction, could be one of several sites that could provide business continuity and peace of mind for netizens everywhere. I've heard this story too many times. "I got back from vacation and...

Tags: Google Inc., Carbonite, Storage, Google Backup, Backups, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-12-03

"Grandpa/Grandma Mode" for PCs

Get off my lawnyou young whippersnapper.RE: As I'm about to setup such a device for my own mother (yes, she's a Grandma), it's a GREAT idea that I'm trying to figure out how to accomplish. One of the All-In-One PCs (HP, Sony, Acer) with Win7 Touchscreen and as few buttons...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scott Adams, PC, e-mail, computer

Discussion threads 2009-12-03

Google Mobile App for Android 1.0 (Mobile)

Google Mobile App for Android launches your favorite Google products. Start a search without waiting to load a mobile browser, by typing or speaking a query. Search suggestions and your search history appear as you type. Access Maps, Gmail, and News all from one place.

Tags: Google Inc., Mobile

Software downloads 2009-12-03

Are you using Joomla! yet? Why the heck not?

And how does Google Sites compare with this?Google Sites is available to both Gmail and Google Apps users.Good work!! And of course you should pay somebody to host it, so as to not waste tax payer money hosting it yourself.And, of course, you can run Joomla on a reliable platform!...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, cloud computing, Joomla, Google Inc., Google Sites, Joomla!

Discussion threads 2009-12-02

Gmail Studio 2.1.0.8 (Mac)

Gmail Studio is the must have Gmail integration for the OSX desktop. Gmail Studio gives you unobtrusiveness desktop access to your Gmail and Gmail for Google Apps accounts. Gmail Studio allows you to check unlimited number of Gmail accounts. You can also view messages right on your desktop, in the...

Tags: Google Gmail, Apple Macintosh, BlueCrestStudios, Gmail Studio, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-12-02

MT Browser Switcher 1.1.20091123 (Windows)

This small utility allows you to assign URLs to several different browsers so different websites can be opened with different browsers. This can be useful if you use some browser for everyday surfing but prefer another browser for particular websites. For example you use Opera for everyday surfing, but you...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows, Web Browser, MiTo Team, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2009-12-01

Privacy: How do you rate Google?

Big Brother Google...In a nutshell, Big Brother Google gives me the creeps. I avoid their products and services.somewhat a big brother figure, butpersonally, i never give them anymore than my login and password for gmail and sometimes docs for schoolwork, nothing more. if i need to use the internet for...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-29