Gmail app update for Androids now available.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

Gmail app update for Androids now available.

Description

Keep your conversations going, everywhere you go.

Gmail is built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient, and useful. And maybe even fun. Get your email instantly via push notifications, read and respond to your conversations online & offline, and search and find any email.

Gmail also lets you:

• Manage multiple accounts

• View and save attachments

• Set up label notifications

What's New.

What's in this version:

Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and up:

• Auto-fit messages to screen and message zooming

• Swipe messages to archive or delete

• Attach photos and videos from within Gmail

• Larger photo previews and gallery view for photo attachments

• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Android 2.2 and up:

• New Labels API for 3rd-party app developers

• Performance improvements

UPDATED:

December 3, 2012

CURRENT VERSION:

Varies with device

REQUIRES ANDROID:

Varies with device

CATEGORY:

Communication

Download: GooglePlay

GMail v2.0 for iPhone and iPad is out.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

GMail v2.0 for iPhone and iPad is out.

Description

Get the official Gmail app for your iPhone or iPad. The newly redesigned app brings the best of Gmail with real-time notifications, multiple account support and search across your entire inbox. With the Gmail app, you can:

● Switch between up to 5 accounts 

● Get notified of new mail fast, with notification center, badge and lock screen options

● Search through all your mail quickly - now with predictions as you type

● See profile pictures as part of the conversation

● Read your mail with threaded conversations

● Auto-complete contact names as you type from your Google contacts or your phone

● Respond to Google Calendar invites right from the app

● Read and respond to interactive Google+ posts right from the app

● Organize your mail by archiving, labeling, starring, deleting and reporting spam

● Send and receive attachments

● Customize emails with custom scribbles

What's New in Version 2.0

- Multiple account support

- App redesigned with a new, cleaner look

- Search predictions as you type

- Infinite scrolling inbox

- Respond to Google Calendar invites inline

- Interactive Google+ posts support

- New welcome experience

This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad

• Free
• Category: Productivity
• Updated: Dec 04, 2012
• Version: 2.0
• Size: 15.0 MB
• Languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Malay, Moldavian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
• Seller: Google, Inc.
• © 2012 Google Inc.

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

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Africa: Google launches Gmail SMS service in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya.

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Africa: Google launches Gmail SMS service in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya.

Google has recently announced Gmail SMS, a new service available in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya, which brings Gmail to all cellphones capable of sending SMS text messages - no data connection required.

Google states that the only technical capability which cellphones must meet in order to use the service is the ability to send and receive SMS messages, allowing owners of even the most basic or venerable handsets to use email without the need for 3G, EDGE or any other form of data connection. This places the potential of email communication into millions more hands than before.

The Gmail SMS service works as follows: following an initial setup process which presumably does require internet access as it involves linking an existing Gmail account to the cellphone in question, Gmail SMS will then automatically forward emails received to the cellphone as SMS text messages.

Google Talk video chat is here. Video

WorldWideTech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Over the next few weeks, the Internet giant will roll out an updated Google Talk with video chat, starting with the Nexus S and making its way to tablets and Gmail. 

Unlike Apple's FaceTime feature which only operates over WiFi, Google's version will run on 3G and 4G connections, too. 

Meet the EN-V, GM's electric concept car

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General Motors is showing off what it calls the future of urban transportation. The EN-V is an autonomous, intelligent, electric vehicle and GM believes it will lead the way for the next generation of eco-friendly vehicles.

Google: More than 1 million calls through Gmail in 24 hours

There was no official blog post to report the overnight success of the Google Voice integration into Gmail. But in the first 24 hours since the service launched, more than 1 million calls were placed.
The message came via a Tweet on the official company Twitter feed and linked back to yesterday’s company blog post announcing the integration of the two products. In that sense, it’s not a big announcement for the company but rather a slight nudge to the company’s 2.4 million followers on Twitter that a new free service is available to them.

Google Voice is automatically being added to Gmail accounts in the U.S. The service allows users who don’t have a Google Voice number to use the service anyway for outbound calls that show a generic Caller ID number.
The company has said that calls within the U.S. and Canada will be free at least through the end of the year, but likely longer if revenue from international calling can sustain it. Google is offering international calling at rates competitive to other VoIP-like offerings, rates that you can browse here: https://www.google.com/voice/rates

  

Google to allow phone calls from Gmail | Reuters

Google Inc said users of Gmail will now be able to call telephones directly from their email, putting it in direct competition with Web calling service Skype and more traditional operators such as AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications.

While Google had already offered computer-to-computer voice and video chat services, it said that starting on Wednesday it will now allow calls to home phones and mobile phones directly from Gmail for the first time.

Google promised free calls to U.S. and Canadian phones from Gmail for the rest of this year and said it would charge low rates for calls made to other countries.

For example it said calls to Britain, France, Germany, China and Japanwould be as low as 2 cents per minute.

Analysts said the service would likely be a bigger competitive threat to services like Skype's than to traditional phone companies, which have already been cutting their call prices in recent years in response to stiff competition.

"This is a risk to Skype. It's a competitor with a pretty good brand name," said Hudson Square analyst Todd Rethemeier.

Skype, which owned by private equity firms and eBay Inc and planning a $100 million initial public offering, has long allowed consumers to make calls from computers to phones. Skype became popular by first offering free computer-to-computer voice and video services.

Like Skype, Rethemeier said the Google service will likely be much more popular among U.S. consumers making international calls, than among people calling friends inside the country.

"Calling is so cheap already that I don't think it will attract a huge amount of domestic calling. It could take some of the international market," he said.

Another analyst, Steve Clement from Pacific Crest, said that anybody who is tempted by Internet calling services has likely already disconnected their home phone.


"The type of person who would use a service like that isn't the type of customer who still has a landline," Clement said.

Google said making a call through its service works like a normal phone in that a user could click on the "call phone" option in their chat buddy list in Gmail and type in the number or enter a contact's name.

Calls that cost money will be charged from an online account that users can top up with a credit card, Google said. The service will not be available for making outgoing calls on cell phones because other Google apps already cater to that market, the company added.

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