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Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel used his private Gmail account to communicate with Attorney General Eric Holder during his time in the White House, according to the results of Freedom of Information Act request we filed. Though the Department of Justice has acknowledged just one email exchange with Holder using Emanuel's unofficial address, the disclosure raises questions about whether Emanuel may have sought to skirt the Presidential Records Act by conducting government business using Gmail rather than his White House address. (Or not. See the update below.) More »
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Larry Page is a busy man. The Google CEO wants his company moving quickly and decisively. That, in turn, means eliminating the plodding exchanges fostered by Gmail.com. Who invented that thing, anyway? More »
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Google just launched its new Facebook thing: Google Plus. And it's invite-only. But people aren't exactly killing each for Google Plus invites. Oh, how times have changed since the Gmail Invite Gold Rush. More »
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Some Chinese hackers may have been reading top U.S. officials' email for a while. Google says they've thwarted a phishing campaign that targeted the Gmail accounts of politically sensitive targets. More »
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In Google's war with Facebook, Google's "don't be evil" motto could be a casualty. The search engine is now leveraging your private Gmail information to get an edge in the social networking wars. It's creepy. More »
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Atlantic writer James Fallows is sounding the alarm about a Gmail "hacking epidemic." The gmail accounts of his wife and three other people he knows have been hacked! That's definitely a hacking epidemic in the world of "James Fallows acquaintances." But is something bigger going down? More »
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While what comes before the @-symbol may include the letters and characters you picked out, what comes after it still says a whole lot about you. A new study breaks down the types of people that use different types of free email services. More »
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Facebook is reportedly launching a Facebook email client this Monday. Soon you'll be able to have your very own @facebook.com email address. This is great. Now we'll have something to email our Yahoo and Gmail addresses with. More »
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For days, Gmail has been displaying scary red banners above certain users' inboxes, warning "Your account was recently accessed from China." So, now you at least know if Chinese hackers are spying on your Gmail. More »
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Google released a statement confirming it fired teen-stalking engineer David Barksdale for "breaking Google's strict internal privacy policies," as Gawker first reported earlier today. Our original exclusive, about Barksdale spying on minors' Google Voice and Talk accounts, has been updated. More »
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We entrust Google with our most private communications because we assume the company takes every precaution to safeguard our data. It doesn't. A Google engineer spied on four underage teens for months before the company was notified of the abuses. More »
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Last night Google rolled out a bug that would be comical if it weren't so astounding and grating: Open your Gmail inbox, and old school ragtime music starts playing, and can't be stopped. The solution: Use less Google. More »
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Today In New York featured a new Google addition, which automatically searches your inbox to find messages you find most important. It "learns" the priority of each message by analyzing how quickly you respond. More »
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Have you ever been staring at your junk clogged email inbox and thought, "I wish I could talk to all these people on the phone?" No? Well, then prepare to be baffled by yet another weird Google invention. More »
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Hackers compromised a "crown jewel" Google password system, the New York Times has revealed, and maybe used it to create secret, still-active back doors. What if there are back doors already being used to compromise Gmail? More »
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Eric Schmidt's email habits are bizarre, considering his job: The CEO of Google and ultimate overlord of email-hoarding service Gmail deletes every email he receives, unless he's specifically asked to do otherwise. And that's not his only strange habit. More »
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Google's GMail will now alert you whenever someone on another continent ogles your inbox, assuming said hacker is too dumb disguise his location, in Poland or wherever. Hey, we're not implying Polish cybercriminals are stupid. Google is. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5501294&view=rss&microfeed=true On the anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution—which launched the nation's current, contested regime—Iran has blocked Gmail and slowed all internet service to such a crawl that some say they can't access any web-based email. A Google spokeswoman confirmed a "sharp drop in traffic." She continued, "Sadly, sometimes it is not within our control." [NYT] More »
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The uber-geeks who run Google don't seem like to think about the messy world of law and politics. But it can't be avoided. The latest example: A Bear Stearns manager done in by a GMail account he thought was closed. More »
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The bad news is that 30,000 Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and other email accounts have had all their login info posted online, by hackers. The good news is, it's their own dumb fault. More »
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GMail is still down. But forlorn users of Google's email service are not without ways of coping with their waking nightmare. Together, we will get through this. Here's how. More »
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GMail is officially down; Twitter is in full panic mode. Google offered some small hope of salvation: More »
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Google finally dropped the "beta" label from GMail. A bit hasty, no? The product launched just half a decade ago; its inventor left Google barely 18 months back. Why the rush to commit? More »
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Remember when Gmail first came out? Virtually unlimited email storage, free! A few people bitched about the ads, but even those were an improvement over Hotmail and Yahoo, which shoved ads into the middle of personal messages rather than alongside them. Nearly five years later, Gmail's new video chat feature is resoundingly meh by comparison. CNET old-timer Rafe Needleman, who got advance review access, listed shortcomings rather than breakthroughs in his writeup. Needleman had embedded in his article a self-produced video demo by one of the Google engineers who built the thing. The doofy-but-sincere video has been removed from YouTube. Dear Google PR: That's everything wrong with your company right there. More »
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The rocket scientists at Google have a solution for our death-spiraling economy: emoticons in Gmail. The animated steaming pile of poo is especially classy. More »
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Mail Goggles is a Google-built version of a feature email users have joked about for decades: It makes you stop, think and pass a sobriety test before sending messages after a certain hour or on weekends. The name is a pun on Beer Goggles — but it gets the logic backwards. Somebody must have been drunk. More »
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Of 49 Google products, 22 are still in beta — not including anything released under Google Labs. In technology parlance, a beta product is one that is still being tested. In fact, Google's even charging users of Google Apps for Your Domain money for both Gmail and Google Docs. So why the beta tag? My theory is it's an easy way to keep from having to offer customer support when problems arise, since beta also traditionally means "use at your own risk." [Royal Pingdom] More »
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Nobody reads terms of service agreements, those legal documents new users have to click a box to say they've read. And the truth is, they hardly matter to anybody but the cyber-rights-now crowd who get worked up by articles on Boing Boing, and the paranoid lawyers at large Web companies who want to avoid money-fishing lawsuits. But sometimes they go far beyond protecting corporate interests into la-la land. Did you know that when you download Google's new Chrome browser, you agree that any "content" you "submit, post or display" using the service — whether you own its copyright or not — gives Google a "perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute" it? Google's ambitions for Chrome are even larger than we thought; by the letter of this license, Google will own all information that flows through its browser. But Chrome's terms of service are just the latest in a long line of ludicrous legalese. More »
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Can Google charge for a service it mostly gives away — and that doesn't always work? That's the experiment it's conducting with Google Apps. Gmail, the email service at the heart of Google Apps, went down three times earlier this month, and Google has sent a note to customers who pay for its "Premier Edition" — typically colleges and small businesses. As Fortune notes, Google hasn't had much success breaking into the large business accounts where Microsoft rules. The tone of Google's apology speaks volumes. It's mostly apologetic, but there are overtones of Stanford-comp-sci huffiness: More »
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Fired Reddit cofounder and noted nontrepreneur Aaron Swartz says developers shouldn't roll out software with a Hollywood-style launch, as the rock-star coders at collaboration-software makers 37 Signals say. Swartz favors "the Gmail Launch," he writes on his blog, Raw Thought. The gist of his argument, below. More »
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Last time someone came out with a Gmail exploit, it was possible to completely hijack your account with just email filters. This time around, hackers found a way to break into your account via "session" cookies. Mike Perry — a reverse-engineering specialist in San Francisco — is debuting a tool at Defcon that can sniff out the browser's cookies during your session of email crunching. When you click on links from inside email messages, website operators can use that Gmail cookie and be able to find out your account information and password. More »
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For a while this afternoon, both Apple and Google mail servers were out of whack. Kick back and watch tech pundits race to blog about how this is a big day for Twitter. Update: Google says it has identified the problem and is fixing it. Gmail, that is. Not Twitter. More »
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Reader Francis writes: More »
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Our "l33t" sister site Lifehacker, your source for anything and everything to help make you the hyper-efficient Valley worker demanded by our workaholic culture, managed to get some of their Better Gmail browser extensions embedded into new features that Google is rolling out to Gmail users through its Gmail Labs project. We here at the 'Wag, longtime Better Gmail users, can only say it's about time. [Lifehacker] More »
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Google has introduced Gmail Labs, a digital playground for Googlers to develop new features for Gmail in their spare time. It's a well-staged PR event, a timely effort to remind the press — and through them, potential hires — that Google lets engineers spend 20 percent of their time on side projects. Gmail Labs, though, is a sign of how 20 percent time as early Googlers knew it is vanishing from the Googleplex. More »
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There's a sign in the bathrooms at Apple headquarters that read: "Take 20 seconds to debug yourself." Here's how they do it in Mountain View. Or maybe this bar of soap serves entirely different purposes? Let us know by writing your own caption, below. We'll re-headline the post with the best entry. Monday's contest was won by photographer Matt Schlicht. The Ustream.tv asscoiate commented about his snap of egoblogger with Robert Scoble kissing Schlicht's underage colleague Mazyar Kazerooni: "Oh - jesus. I didn't want to see that picture again. I'm pretty sure I took it but I don't remember clearly..." More »
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I tried to send an email to New York Times columnist David Pogue, but I failed. It appears that Google's Gmail has been blacklisted by the Sorbs spam-blocking system. At the moment, Sorbs claims to be in a "maintenance period." Pogue's email provider could be blocking all mail because it can't reach Sorbs — but why would it be down for maintenance in the middle of the day? See the full error message after the jump and tell me if you can figure it out. In the meantime, David, call me? Everybody sing! Let the sound of your voice turn winter to spring. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=361569&view=rss&microfeed=true With only posterboard, scissors, very long rulers and the soundtrack from Magnum P.I., ad agency Saatchi Moscow created this Russian advertisement for Gmail. More »
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Kuwaiti Gmail user Abdulaziz Al-Shalabi inadvertently gained access to 30 other accounts over the weekend. Courteously, Al-Shalabi quit poking around others' inboxes after he got bored looking at "keycodes for some embassy gate" and usernames and passwords, he told News.com. Google flack Jason Freidenfelds blamed a local ISP for the security glitch. eBay accounts were exposed, too, but company flack Nichola Sharpe wants you to know: "It wasn't a major problem .. .not anything on a large scale." But you might want to doublecheck before shipping your Beanie Baby collection to the Middle East, just in case. (Photo by the illustrious untitled13) More »
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"There's no good reason in the world for Gmail to still have the beta tag. It was supposed to have gone away a long time ago." — Paul Buchheit, Gmail's first engineer and the originator of Google's "don't be evil" motto. [Google Operating System] More »
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