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Sify Launches WIYI Mail Powered By Google - Last Bet To Gain Email Userbase?

Sify Launches WIYI Mail Powered By Google - Last Bet To Gain Email Userbase?

We had reported earlier about Sify’s deal with Google to power its mail and chat. Now the intergration of Google mail and chat is complete and Sify has launched a brand new mail service from Sifymail called WIYI or ‘World In Your Inbox’.

Sify has also launched a My Sify on igoogle platform which allows sify [...]

[How-To] Change the Look of your Gmail's Interface

[How-To] Change the Look of your Gmail’s Interface

Are you tired of looking at the plain, old and boring Gmail User Interface (UI) that hasn’t been changed ever since 2004? Even though Google has been constantly rolling out new features for its services, it has never bothered to update the UI for many of its services. Google may have its own reasons for not rolling out a new look, but that doesn’t stop us from customizing it our own way, does it?Here’s how a customized Gmail looks.

Google brings Speech Recognition to Video Search, Selectively Adding GMail Contacts now possible

Google brings Speech Recognition to Video Search, Selectively Adding GMail Contacts now possible

Google seems to be slowly rolling out new features into some of their services. Google, which originally began as a search engine, has now become a giant on the interwebs, trying its hand at every possible area. As of today, the giant has a 70% Market Share in the total search queries from the US.
 
Google [...]

GMail Introduces New Privacy Settings - Remote Log Out, Logged In Stats & IP Address!

GMail Introduces New Privacy Settings - Remote Log Out, Logged In Stats & IP Address!

 
Here is an innovation from GMail that every single email user in the world is guaranteed to love! How many times have you wondered if you had signed out of your email after accessing it from a public computer? Have you ever been a victim of password theft? We all love the fact that Google [...]

WAT’s Up Online? - June 24, 2008

Following the tradition started by Ankit, here’s another WAT’s Up Online where we try to report all the news and happenings that we missed in the day, so that our readers don’t feel left out.

The Way You View GMail will Change Soon – Gmail Labs Launched as Well

GMail is putting in place a couple of changes. Plugins that will definitely make a lot of sense to some users. They call it the next evolution of “20% Time”.
 
Michael Arrington From Tech Crunch did a Post on the New Features – here they are:
 
Quick Links: adds a box to the left column that [...]

Email@Mobile  Introduces Free Mobile Email ID - So ?

Email@Mobile Introduces Free Mobile Email ID - So ?

I could not make out the specialty of the offer after going through the complete news and even after checking out the website.
They ask you to point your GPRS-enabled phone’s browser to wap.emailtomobile.com and acces your emails. Well, can’t I do it already with my Yahoo! Mail ? I think I can. Most of the popular portals have their WAP versions (Although WAP is hardly popular) and I can anyways access my Internet from my existing emails if I have a GPRS-enabled phone.

Microsoft-Yahoo-Google : Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai

Microsoft-Yahoo-Google : Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai

 

 
Exactly ten years back, I watched a story of three people. Rahul, Anjali and Tina. Today, I write about three companies. Three companies that are known to shape the course of Web. The three people were connected by love. The three companies are connected by competition. Until now, the companies were operating independently. But suddenly, [...]

GTalk on Facebook?!?!

GTalk on Facebook?!?!

I recently discovered that Facebook has added an application which can be used as the GTalk chat client.
 
 
After spending some time trying to figure out the interface and how to go about adding the application I finally managed to get myself to use it.
 

 
What’s interesting is that the interface is completely similar to the [...]

The Internet and Pop Culture? Google’s Search Trends for India – 2007

The Internet and Pop Culture? Google’s Search Trends for India – 2007

The Internet is quickly becoming a ‘cultural index’ – it is starting to represent us as a culture with its scope getting broader every single day.
We have written quite a bit about the number of Internet ‘users’ and about the number of people accessing the Internet online – and it would be safe to [...]

Microsoft India Launches Upgraded Version Of MSN LIVE Services For Indian Users!

Microsoft India Launches Upgraded Version Of MSN LIVE Services For Indian Users!

Microsoft, the global software giant, launched the upgraded version of its Windows LIVE Services recently in India. Windows Live Services comes along with a set of online tools and desktop applications which include Windows Mail, Messenger, Toolbar, Events, Photo Gallery, Writer and OneCare Family Safety.
 
The upgraded version of Windows Live is designed to synchronize [...]

An official Google Viral - Gmail Video!

Not sure how many of you might have come across this, but if you log into your Gmail Account – you’ll notice a Join Our Gmail Video link.

So what is it? Google seems to be creating a collaborative video to see – ‘how an email message travels around the world’.
The Gmail Video [...]

Gmail increases Attachment size limit to 20 MB

Google has upgraded their Gmail webmail service that allows users to send attachments of size upto 20MB.
However the new file service increase won’t help you if you’re emailing someone outside of Gmail since most other services cap the attachment size at 10MBs or less.
Competing services like Microsoft’s Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail does not allow [...]

The Best Things In Life Are Free, at least on the Web!

I was talking to a not so net-savvy group of friends yesterday and was really surprised at their ignorance. As the conversation shifted to the internet, I got complains like – checking e-mail is so painful and complaints about the enormous amount of spam they receive in their traditional email ids which are more than [...]

Google launches GMail Paper and In-Home Wireless Broadband Service

Yesterday being a very auspicious day, Google launched 2 mind blowing products!

 
Well now archive all your Mail and Documents - well…on Paper!

More info here
 
Also launched was Google TiSP - which stands for ‘Toilet Internet Service Provider’ aka Project Teaspoon.
Described as - "Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless [...]