SAN FRANCISCO - A disruption to Google's Gmail service frustrated users throughout the world Tuesday and flummoxed engineers at the giant internet company.

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Gmail knocked offline for 'majority' of users

SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc.'s Gmail service was knocked offline Tuesday in an outage that the company said affected a "majority" of its millions of e-mail users, including consumers who get Gmail for free and businesses that pay for a version for their employees.

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Most of you use Gmail from your iPhone. What if you had a push mail function to use Gmail right out of the box on your iPhone. Tiverias Apps has just released a new Gmail push application for iPhone mobile devices.  Christened as GPush the iPhone app leverages a push-notification feature that is being enhanced in the iPhone 3.0 OS. With GPush users will be able to instantly receive and view the Gmails just like instant text messages on your iPhone on the go.

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A sad day for Yahoo! That's the consensus — a rare one — across both global technology and investor communities. Yahoo stock dropped 10 percent, Microsoft rose one percent. For once, the markets may have got it right. The decision to work together on their search engines is a big mistake for Yahoo, and a small gain for Microsoft.

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If you have ever used Gmail to send messages with one of your other email addresses listed in place of your Gmail address, you must have noticed that Gmail adds a custom From to it. Well, since the e-mail are sent by Gmail's server but from a non-Gmail address, it displays the original Gmail username in the Sender field indicating that it was send On Behalf Of your other account. This is in compliance with the mail's delivery protocol that helps in preventing the mail from being marked as spam.

Majority of e-mail programs just show the From address and not the Sender field. However, Gmail shows these messages as coming From username@gmail.com On Behalf Of customaddress@mydomain.com, which is quite an upsetting experience. Finally, Google-mail has decided to drop the On Behalf Of and allow the users to send messages from third party SMTP servers. Full article (421 words) »

At times you receive emails from authentic mailing list and mark it as spam, since its of no interest to you. What if you could escape these undesired messages by automatically unsubscribing to the messages. Although most of the undesired messages are filtered to Spam by Gmail but the user preferences may vary. While you may not want to read a messages sent by a certain company or mailing list, others might find it valuable. To ease your burden of managing the undesired messages you don't want to receive, Gmail provides an easy solution.

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If you ask me honestly abut Twitter in one sentence, Twitter is a service that is hardly reliable but very unique and interesting. Perhaps that was the USP which helped them in developing an enviable userbase despite having frequent server hangups and hacking attacks. With the newest threat that compromised thousands of information, Twitter Inc. employees have learned the hard way that, breaking into someone's e-mail can be child's play. For the third time this year, the San Francisco-based company was the victim of a security breach stemming from a simple end-run around its defenses. In the latest case, a hacker got the password for an employee's personal e-mail account — possibly by guessing, or by correctly answering a security question — and worked from there to steal confidential company documents.

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SAN FRANCISCO - It's the ultimate showdown in the technology world, the clash of giants that has been eagerly awaited for years. Web giant Google is taking its clearest aim yet at Microsoft with its plan to produce its own operating system that would optimise the way computers work on the Internet.

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Gmail drops 'beta' label to woo business customers

NEW YORK — After more than five years officially in testing mode, Gmail is finally graduating from "beta."

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US calls on China to revoke Web filter order

BEIJING — Washington is calling on Beijing to revoke an order to personal computer makers to supply Internet-filtering software with every PC, adding to an array of disputes between the major trading partners.

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