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I said the last time that Google Mail has slowly evolved into a force of nature and just to prove that I was not lying Google has announced another new perk for the Gmail users that is sure going to make your decision to migrate from your existing mail id (Wahoo). The tech goliath has announced that the user of Gmail will be able to make free calls to the US and Canada for at least the rest of the year. The service when announced was quite a rage with 1 million calls getting placed within the first 24 hrs of the service going live. This stat had the pundits raving for Google’s feature some even went to the extent of calling it the “Skype Killer”. The free calling will get many more people hooked onto Google’s service. Not much was heard of the service regarding the launch regarding updates hence it is definitely Google’s queue to jump into the telephony business big time. The service originally advertised per minute rates starting at $0.02 per minute ...

It seems that Google is on its way to revamp its Gmail account services. Although the company has not announced anything in this matter officially, a leaked screenshot of the internal version of the Gmail services used by its employees have pointed out a lot of differences from the current Gmail services of Google. The screenshot that was taken from Chromium OS bug tracker and was originally intended to point at a bug that exists within Google Chromium Operating service, has turned the attention of geeks towards the latest version of Gmail that is being used by the company's employees. As per sources, the Google employees are the first to use any version of the company's services which it wants to introduce in the market. It is based on the feedback of its employees that the services are improved or modified to suit the best interest of the users. The changes that have been marked in the new Gmail account version are mostly design and navigational changes. However, all these...

As they say "you have an iPhone app for everything you can think of", still there's much that the smartphone can't do. While we are not unsatisfied with iPhone, its inherently that we keep craving for more. Most of you would love to see your iPhone perform what it never does. It requires nimble work around to get an extra edge from your iPhone. What you need to do is go for some cool iPhone hacks. We decided to provide you with top 10 iPhone hacks that you've never heard of. Our hacks doesn't involve much intricacies, and they are safe. With iPhone's announcements of two new CDMA iPhones for Verizon and Sprint we are expecting some better prospects than AT&T's impotent network However, for now, let's go through the hacks. 1. How to reduce the size of iPhone app icons Do you have dozens of iPhone Apps installed in your iPhone? Shifting through the pages when you need one immediately, it can be really frustrating. One of the ways to reduce ...

Social-networking star Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the United States for the first time last week, industry analysts showed. Facebook’s homepage finished the week ending March 13 as the most visited site in the country, according to industry tracker Hitwise. The “important milestone,” as described by Hitwise director of research Heather Dougherty, came as Facebook enjoyed a massive 185 percent increase in visits in the same period, compared to the same week in 2009. By comparison, visits to search engine home Google.com increased only nine percent in the same time — although the tracker does not include Google property sites such as the popular Gmail email service, YouTube and Google Maps.

A growing number of software companies are capitalizing on an unexpected business opportunity: Internet censorship. In countries where governments continue to ramp up Web filtering systems, more people are searching for tools that will allow them to access inaccessible information -- and they are willing to pay for them. Such tools include virtual private networks (VPN), proxy servers and other workarounds that enable users to breach barriers to blocked information online.

  GMAIL USERS: You’re welcome to join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account . Google Buzz is not a rival to Facebook or Twitter, says Google exec Bradley Horowitz — instead he sees it as a platform for conversation, and hopes other services will be able to flow in and out of Buzz. In an eWeek interview earlier this week, Horowitz, Google’s VP of product management, was asked whether Buzz was intended as a challenger to Twitter and Facebook. He replied:

Perhaps you, like me, have a friend who is always fond of the obvious. Perhaps that friend doesn't work at Google. Having launched its new Buzz service last week, melding some mimicry of Twitter and Facebook, Google seemed to take a page straight from the latter's Beacon of customer service by creating start-up settings that were anything other than comfortable, anything other than private. This seemed obvious to many. Now, having been buzzed by feedback from annoyed users and commentators, Google announced on its blog Saturday that it will make radical changes to the Buzz start-up experience over the next few days. In a post by Gmail and Google Buzz Product Manager Todd Jackson, Google says that it has been listening "loud and clear."

Let's say you'd constituted a drinking game for the aftermath of Tuesday's unveiling of Google Buzz , the odd new mishmash of status messages, geolocation, and social-media aggregation: Take a drink every time some pundit says Google is trying to "kill" Facebook, Twitter, or any number of the "geo" start-ups out there. You'd have been totally blitzed. The cries of "It's a Facebook killer!" and "It's going to kill Twitter!" are tedious, but completely understandable considering that this is one of the first big pushes from Google, which has never been able to get a good grip on social networking , to make inroads in the space. And Buzz is indeed a product that's reactionary as opposed to trailblazing. It's Google's biggest acknowledgment of the fact that people dig these short real-time messages and social-media sharing . It aims to take the reasons why people use Facebook, why people use Twitter, and w...

Google moved quickly over the weekend to try to contain mounting criticism of Buzz, its social network, apologizing to users for features that were widely seen as endangering privacy and announcing product changes to address those concerns. Todd Jackson, product manager for Gmail and Google Buzz, wrote in a blog post on Saturday that Google had decided to alter one of the most-criticized features in Buzz: the ready-made circle of friends the service provided to new users based on their most frequent e-mail and chat contacts in Gmail. Instead of automatically connecting people, Buzz will in the future merely suggest to new users a group of people they may want to follow or be followed by, he said. Mr. Jackson, who said that the auto-follow feature had been intended to make it easy for people to get started on Buzz, acknowledged the criticism that was heaped on Google in the last few days. “We’re very sorry for the concern we’ve caused and have been working hard ever since to impro...

Raksasa internet Google telah membeli Aardvark, layanan social search yang khusus didesain untuk menjawab pertanyaan dari penggunanya. Aardvark akan meneruskan pertanyaan tersebut ke layanan jejaring sosial dan memilih jawaban yang tepat. "Saya bisa mengkonfirmasi bahwa kami telah menandatangani kesepakatan dengan Google," pendiri dan kepala teknologi Aardvark Damon Horowitz dalam emailnya kepada AFP seperti dilansir Antara. Namun, pihaknya tidak dapat berkomentar lebih jauh soal akuisisi tersebut. Blog teknologi terkemuka TechCrunch memperkirakan harga pembelian itu tak kurang dari 50 juta dollar AS.

Will Google's version give Facebook and Twitter a run for their money? As rumored yesterday, Google launched a new social effort today called Google Buzz. If you're immediate reaction is, "Wait, doesn't Yahoo! already have a product named Buzz?" Then you'd be correct. But Google didn't acquire Yahoo! Buzz. Nor has Yahoo! Buzz gone defunct and Google felt ok about picking it up as a name. The two products are alike in name and the fact that they're social. But that's about it. Google Buzz lets you be social from Gmail. You can update your status there and share photos. (Yahoo! Buzz is more akin to social bookmarking and trending topics.)

Baru kemarin diluncurkan, Google Buzz sudah menuai protes. Beberapa pengguna internet khawatir Google Buzz tidak dapat mempedulikan masalah privasi pengguna. Dalam isu yang dilontarkan oleh Silicon Alley Insider, Google Buzz diprediksi akan menampilkan seluruh kontak milik pengguna, baik kontak yang ada dalam email maupun layanan instant messaging. Buzz akan secara otomatis mulai mem-follow kontak-kontak yang ada dan akan menampilkan daftar tersebut ke publik. Artinya, orang asing pun dapat melihat alamat kontak yang telah dihubungi oleh pengguna BUzz. "Bayangkan jika ternyata anda bisa menemukan dengan siapa suami anda chatting selama ini. Atau dengan Google Buzz, bisa jadi bos anda akan bisa menemukan alamat email pejabat di perusahaan rival," ujar pihak SAI.

Yesterday, we published Jason Calacanis's first reaction to Google Buzz, which was that Facebook is toast .  Below, in a note to his email list, Jason puts some meat on that thesis.  You can sign up for Jason's excellent email here >   My 30 second review of Google Buzz: 1. Google Buzz 1.0 is better than Facebook after six or seven years. 2. Facebook's history is one filled with stealing other people's innovations and doing them better (i.e. Zuckerberg has stolen every idea Evan Williams and the Twitter team have released). How ironic now that Google has out "Facebooked" Facebook. 3. Google has an excellent privacy record and Facebook is a disaster. Most folks do not trust Zuckerberg and Facebook any more because of their privacy record (filled with lawsuits) and because they steal every good idea they see (i.e. Twitter's innovations and FourSquare's checking in).

Users of AOL's main instant-messaging service can now chat directly with friends on Facebook. AOL Inc. said Wednesday that a new version of the AIM software connects with the chat function on Facebook's Web site, letting AIM users communicate with friends who are logged on to the social network. The AIM user still needs a Facebook account, however, and it's the Facebook persona rather than AIM's that appears to the friend on Facebook. Users who download the new AIM software and link it with their Facebook profile will see their AIM buddy list include online Facebook friends in a separate section.

Google's new social media service Google Buzz will show up in your Gmail account this week. Here's how to customize and use Buzz--or opt out of its inbox-cluttering updates completely.

Buzz has some great rich-media sharing capabilities. But Facebook still owns your social-sharing network.

Sesuai bocoran yang beredar sehari sebelumnya, perusahaan raksasa internet, Google, akhirnya resmi memperkenalkan layanan jejaring sosial dengan nama Google Buzz. Layanan ini tidak berdiri sendiri, tetapi langsung terintegrasi dengan layanan Gmail mulai Selasa (9/2/2010) dan secara bertahap akan tersedia untuk pengguna Gmail di seluruh dunia. Jadi, buat pengguna Gmail, siap-siap saja mencoba tanpa harus melakukan instalasi. Buat yang belum punya akun Gmail, tentu harus mendaftarnya terlebih dulu untuk mencoba Google Buzz. Tertarik nge-Buzz? Pelajari dulu apa itu Google Buzz. Google Buzz menyediakan fitur yang memungkinkan para pemakai Gmail kini dapat dengan cepat berbagi pesan, link situs, dan foto dengan rekan mereka sesama pengguna Gmail. Google menyebutnya berbagi ide karena menyediakan fitur seperti pesan Twitter, tetapi tanpa batasan karakter. Selain itu, juga fitur berbagi foto dan video serta update dari berbagai layanan yang sudah dipakai, seperti Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, ...

Facebook dikabarkan sedang bersiap mengubah sistem pesannya menjadi layanan webmail. Upaya ini dinamai Project Titan. Kabar yang konon berasal dari orang dalam mengatakan Facebook sedang menyiapkan Project Titan. Proyek ini diharapkan menjadi aplikasi web yang bisa mengalahkan Gmail, produk webmail dari Google. Seperti dikutip detikINET dari TechCrunch, Sabtu (6/2/2010), layanan webmail Facebook ini nantinya akan memiliki akses POP/IMAP. Artinya, pengguna bisa mengakses email facebook dari berbagai software dan perangkat genggam.

Email as a technology has been around for decades, and thanks to wide spread adoption and popularity, it isn't in danger of disappearing. Check out the five most popular email clients to help you wrangle your email. Earlier this week we asked your to share your favorite email client .

Google has switched on https encryption as a default for all Gmail accounts to improve the security of its web-based email service