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Google Tweaking Speeds Up Gmail

The "Loading..." message may never go away completely, but engineers at Google made some Gmail improvements that should diminish its on-screen time.

Researchers See Gmail "Spam And Phishing Threat"

So long as it winds up in the trashcan, spam isn't too much of a problem for end users.  Yet security researchers have discovered a way in which spammers could use Gmail to send a massive number of messages straight into inboxes.

Google Provides Help For the Help-Seekers

Isn't it always fun stumbling across some new feature to enhance your overall Google Experience? Just the little things that can add so much convenience to your daily web use like the definition or movies web search features.

FriendFeed Benefits From Twitter Problems

Twitter: grabbing defeat from the jaws of success Amazing, Twitter has been half down all weekend long. Dave Winer and others have been writing about it. The problems have been covered on TechMeme and other places where one looks for interesting tech news.

Gmail Upgrade Introduced To Google Apps

Users of Google Apps, say "thank you" to users of Gmail.  Now that they've acted as something similar to guinea pigs, you'll be receiving a nice, if not overly significant, upgrade.

Google Japan Gets New Design

The Google Japan homepage was redesigned, as some of you are seeing it (and as the Google Japan blog reports). Perhaps this only shows in some locations – I can’t see it yet – but Colin Colehour posted some screenshots in the forum. As far as I can tell the four tabs consist of:

Gmail Spam On The Rise

This story relates to Google, and also to a month-to-month increase of around 100 percent.  It can hardly be considered positive, however, since the increase corresponds to spam sent from Gmail addresses.

New(ish) Gmail Reaching Speakers Of 37 Languages

There's something seemingly futile about discussing language options; after all, anyone who's reading this article already understands English.  Still, we're somewhat excited to report that Google is releasing a new version of Gmail in 37 languages.

Gmail Sending Limits Explored

In the interest of not being sensationalists, here's a disclaimer: we realize that most people will never engage in the behaviors outlined in this article.  But when using Gmail, there are some things that businesspeople and a few other folks should look out for, and they're listed below.

Matt Cutts Proposes Fresh Gmail Feature

Matt Cutts's wishes are not Google's commands.  Just the same, the guy is undeniably influential, and his latest idea - giving Gmail the ability to send things at a predetermined time or date - seems to have gotten a good response from would-be users.