Google has another reason to lure businesses from running their own e-mail servers: lower energy use. The Internet giant today released results from a study (PDF) which looked at energy consumption of hosting e-mail servers versus having Google run Gma…
Google: Gmail more energy-efficient than in-house e-mail – CNET News
Written by GTools on September 7th, 2011New Offline Gmail, Docs won’t save Chromebooks – CNET News
Written by GTools on September 6th, 2011To say Chromebooks–laptops running on Google’s browser-based Chrome OS–become less useful without an Internet connection is an understatement. Even just a flaky wireless connection makes using one frustrating, never mind having no connection at all. …
Google’s New HTML5 Chrome Apps For Gmail, Calendar And Docs Give Users Offline Access (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)
Written by GTools on August 31st, 2011Leena Rao / TechCrunch:Google’s New HTML5 Chrome Apps For Gmail, Calendar And Docs Give Users Offline Access — As we reported at Google I/O in May, Google has been working on offline versions of their three most popular apps: Gmail, …
Google Apps Go Offline, Starting With Gmail
Written by GTools on August 31st, 2011Chrome: Google’s adding offline support to their most popular web apps, starting today with Gmail. The offline support comes via the Offline Google Mail extension, available now in the Chrome Web Store. Offline Google Mail [Chrome Web Store via G…
Free calls home from Gmail for all U.S. service members (Ilya Frank/Gmail Blog)
Written by GTools on August 30th, 2011Ilya Frank / Gmail Blog:Free calls home from Gmail for all U.S. service members — We understand that it’s not always easy or affordable for our troops serving overseas to call friends and family at home, so starting today we’re makin…
Fraudulent Google certificate points to Internet attack (Elinor Mills/CNET News)
Written by GTools on August 29th, 2011Elinor Mills / CNET News:Fraudulent Google certificate points to Internet attack — This screenshot shows the warning the user reportedly got when attempting to log into Gmail. — A Dutch company appears to have issue…
The Man Behind Sparrow Tells Us How He Made $350K, And Why Apple’s Walled Garden Is Worth It (Ellis Hamburger/Tools)
Written by GTools on August 28th, 2011Ellis Hamburger / Tools:The Man Behind Sparrow Tells Us How He Made $350K, And Why Apple’s Walled Garden Is Worth It — We recently spoke with Dominique Leca, co-founder of Sparrow—a mail app for Mac that everyone’s buzzing abou…
A Trillion Pageviews for Facebook (Amit/Digital Inspiration Technology Blog)
Written by GTools on August 24th, 2011Amit / Digital Inspiration Technology Blog:A Trillion Pageviews for Facebook — Google today released an updated list of the most-visited sites on the web and it should not come as any surprise that Facebook takes the top spot with 87…
Gtalklet Adds The Google Talk Web Interface To Any Tab In Chrome
Written by GTools on August 23rd, 2011Chrome: Google’s Talk web interface is nice, but annoyingly confined to your Gmail tab. Gtalklet puts a little Gtalk box on any site you want, so you don’t have to switch back and forth between tabs just to chat. Gtalklet is cool, but takes…
A first, tiny step: view recent Google+ posts in the Gmail people widget! (Mark Striebeck/Google+)
Written by GTools on August 23rd, 2011Mark Striebeck / Google+:A first, tiny step: view recent Google+ posts in the Gmail people widget! — You can now see the most recent Google+ post that the sender of the email shared with you in the Gmail people widget – see screensho…