While I logged into Gmail this morning, I saw this popup which said that now I could SMS anyone right from my Gmail inbox for free. Here is a screenshot of it. The new feature lets you enter the number of the person you want to message and send an SMS via Gmail’s servers. If that person replies you get the replies straight to your inbox. If you are a heavy Gmail user, then this will make sense to...

The web has indeed made the world a smaller place but some language related barriers still exist in the regions of the world which speak and write using their native languages. Email is the most basic form of communication and it would make total sense if you could add languages and native words to it to make communication more effective. Google has announced on its official blog that they have now...

Google+ events are a very good tool for planning events, in my opinion. I have checked out both Facebook and Google+ events and the Google+ events product seems to be superior in many aspects like UI, interactivity, ease of use, mobile app support, email notifications etc. Adding to the feature bundle, Google has announced that now you will be able to interact with Google+ events directly from your...

Rediff.com which operates its own E-mail service called Rediffmail has launched its next version of Push mail service ‘Rediffmail NG Professional’. This mobile centric service is geared primarily for the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs. After attempting to lure the youth with innovative integration with Social media newsfeed, Rediff is now trying to woo the executive crowd...

Google Search is already pretty impressive on its own and this can be gauged by performance metrics and market share. The company is working to make search an all encompassing product which can be your window to all the information. The Google search until the launch of Knowledge graph was intelligent but not intelligent enough to make sense of all the keywords you threw at it. Knowledge graph attempts...

For years Gmail has been the best webmail service available on the web. It is simple, intuitive and gets the work done. Desktop email clients like the old Outlook and Thunderbird are heavy and complicated. The software world these days works in favor of simplicity and ease of use. Google has this spot on and Gmail has been seeing incremental improvements is UI, function and UX design. It was one of...

Google’s own e-mail client Gmail, could be the number 1 e-mail client, if the company’s internal numbers are to be believed. Internet search giant, in its own findings has stated that Gmail is now being used by 425 Monthly Active Users (MAU).  In comparison, Hotmail has 360 Million MAU. Interestingly, the results are from the company’s own internal data with no external third-party verification....

Gmail is one of the most widely used email service in existence today and it is getting better at its job every passing year. Besides the design interface that Google pushed some months back, there are many productivity features it comes with. The Gmail team announced yesterday on their official blog that they have introduced three new features in Gmail. The outstanding one among them is email translation,...

Google is about to launch a file synchronization service for all Google users. Titled GDrive, the in-cloud storage service will initially have size limit set to 5GB. Google’s Gmail is already worth 7.5GB. Then why the additional storage? Well, this service is entirely different in terms of need identification & satisfaction. While Gmail stores content in the form of e-mails, GDrive is a virtual...

Delhi based startup GrexIt, a collaborative email inbox add-on has managed to secure a second round of funding from One97 Communications. Though the exact quantum is unknown, going by pattern of Citrix’s accelerator program it could be anywhere between US$ 100,000 to US$ 400,000. Commenting on the usage of funds GrexIt’s co-founder Niraj Ranjan Rout said “We will primarily use the funding for...