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 [...]

Gmail overtakes AOL Mail in USA
Google Gmail is now the third most popular webmail service in the US market.
It has just overtaken AOL Mail and now trails Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.
These results are from the latest figures released by comScore.
Gmail now has around 37 million monthly visitors in USA compared to 47 [...]

reMail offers better Gmail access on Apple iPhone
reMail is a brand new mobile application now available for the Apple iPhone platform.
It is designed for Gmail and similar IMAP powered email services.
The developers claim that reMail can be used for quick searching through all your emails in the inbox.
It downloads all the mails from the [...]

Gmail can now send emails using third party servers!
Google already allows you to send emails through Gmail from an alternative email id of yours.
You just need to connect your other email ids in Gmail to activate that functionality.
One problem with this mechanism is that the emails sent from alternative email ids are delivered [...]