Posts Tagged ‘Google Apps Blog’

Landing another blow against email phishing

Posted by Adam Dawes, Product Manager

Email phishing, in which someone tries to trick you into revealing personal information by sending fake emails that look legitimate, remains one of the biggest online threats. One of the most popular methods that …

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Improvements to the Gmail offline Chrome app

Posted by Dave Stewart, Senior Software Engineer

When we first announced Gmail offline last August, we told you that it was only the beginning of our HTML5-powered offline journey. Since then, we’ve been listening to your feedback and today, we want…

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One more present under the tree—custom video messages from Santa

Posted by Trevor Claiborne, Product Marketing Manager

Last Friday Santa opened up the Ho Ho Hotline and teamed up with Gmail to send personalized holiday phone calls to anyone you know who has been nice (or naughty, for that matter) in the U.S. or Can…

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Scribbles for Gmail for mobile – a creative way to email

Posted by Donna Dupuis, Software Engineer

From prehistoric humans etching in caves to the modern-day thinker sketching a stroke of genius on a napkin, scribbling is a natural form of human expression. Not constrained by formatting or font styles, scri…

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Ho-ho-hold the phone: Santa’s on the line

Posted by Trevor Claiborne, Product Marketing Manager

Last year, Santa got his very own Google Voice number, and people around the U.S. received a special personalized holiday phone call from Santa Claus.

This year, Santa wants you to reach out to hi…

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Ho-ho-hold the phone: Santa’s on the line

Posted by Trevor Claiborne, Product Marketing Manager

Last year, Santa got his very own Google Voice number, and people around the U.S. received a special personalized holiday phone call from Santa Claus.

This year, Santa wants you to reach out to hi…

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Updates to the Gmail app for iOS

Posted by Ingrid Fielker, Software Engineer

When we launched the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, we said we were just getting started and would continue to release updates regularly. Today we updated the app with some new features and inter…

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Free calling within the US and Canada through 2012

Posted by Vincent Paquet, Group Product Manager

As the holiday season approaches, we’re happy to announce that we’ve extended free domestic calls within the US and Canada for 2012.

This is our way of helping you connect with friends and family acro…

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Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+

Posted by Mark Striebeck, Engineering Director

We want to bring you a great experience across all Google products which, for Gmail and Contacts, means understanding what you care about and delivering it instantly. With that in mind, we’re introduci…

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Testing Gmail’s new look

Posted by Mark Striebeck, Engineering Director

Editor’s note: This post, like yesterday’s, is more technical than most posts here, but we thought some of you might find it interesting to look inside how Gmail works.

Yesterday, we talked about how we …

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