Gmail reminds you to use a stronger password
We have already heard reports on the leaked database containing user ids and passwords of thousands of email addresses on the web.
All the popular webmail services have been affected by this leak.
And Google Gmail is one of them.
Gmail developers have a new blog post [...]

Gmail highlighting favicons of some services in emails!
TechCrunch has reported that Google Gmail webmail service is now highlighting emails from certain services with the relevant favicon!
The report said that Netflix is one company that is being covered by this new service. There might be others.
If this is expanded to other services, it [...]

Xoopit for Gmail service ending
Xoopit has some bad news for their users on Google owned Gmail service.
The developers have announced that they are closing down Xoopit for Gmail.
The service would stop working from November 13 this year.
They would now focus on the My Photos for Yahoo! Mail feature.
The developers stated in [...]

Hide read labels is a very useful Google Gmail Labs option!
Google has added a new Gmail Labs feature named Hide read labels.
As the name suggest, this feature hides the labels which do not have any unread conversation.
This would come handy for those users who have tons of labels set in their Gmail [...]

Google Gmail goes down yet again
Google Gmail users might be facing issues with the service reliability right now.
A message is being shown to some users (like us):
Gmail is temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may experience issues while this persists.

We are failing to work normally with email messages.
Thankfully, we run an [...]

Google News suffers a downtime
Google Gmail was down for us here for a couple of hours. We guess it was not a widespread problem.
But Google has confirmed that their Google News web service suffered some glitches.
They have worked on fixing the problems and it seems to be doing fine now.
Google did not reveal how widespread [...]

Facebook introducing Prototypes for optional features?
Mashable has just reported that Facebook is working on a new feature named Facebook Prototypes.
This would include functionalities and applications that would be optional for the end user.
In other words, it would be similar to Google Labs which allows the user to add optional functionalities on Gmail and [...]

Google launches Data Liberation Front
Google has announced the launch of a Data Liberation Front.
It is essentially a group of Google engineers who are now going to work on opening up their services to enable users to move their data with them if they are switching to a rival service.
The company said that they [...]

Google Gmail went down earlier today because of overload problems!
Google has confirmed that their Gmail webmail service became inaccessible for some time.
The company said that they had taken down some of the servers for routine maintenance.
It overloaded the remaining servers causing downtime for the users accessing Gmail through their web browser.
The company [...]

Google Gmail finally gets the contact chooser
Google Gmail is loved for having a bare bone interface which is very powerful.
But the service has been adding features which are common on rival services and are liked by a lot of the web users.
Contact Chooser is one such feature which has just been added [...]