Posted by Wen-Ai Yu, Support Strategist
We on the Google Calendar team work hard to play well with others, so you can synchronize your calendars with a number of mobile devices and desktop applications. This way, you can choose whichever calendars you want to use and keep all of them up to date. Most of these options have been around for
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Posted by Leo Dirac, Product Manager
How often do you try to chat with somebody and they don’t respond because they just walked away from their computer? Or maybe you’re in the middle of chatting with them just as they need to leave. But you still need to tell them something — something really important like you’ve moved where
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Posted by Zach Yeskel, Product Marketing Manager
It’s been another busy year for the Gmail elves, trying to find places to store all these emails (don’t you people ever sleep?)… If you’re finding it hard to keep track of all the new things we’ve added to Gmail over the last few months, here are some of our favorites to check out
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Posted by Andy Palay, Gmail engineer
Web-based email is great because you can check it from any computer, but there’s one little catch: it’s inherently limited by your internet connection. From public WiFi to smartphones equipped with 3G, from mobile broadband cards to fledgling in-flight wireless on airplanes, Internet access is becoming more and more ubiquitous — but there are still
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Posted by Michael Bolin, Tasks engineer
Among the world’s leading productivity tools is an advanced technology known as paper. Many of the world’s top corporations and most active internet users have adopted paper as a method of organizing their daily lives. When they think of something they need to do, they write it down on a piece of paper and keep
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Posted by Mat Balez, Mobile Product Manager
Gmail is about keeping you in touch with the people you care about, independent of the large, or sometimes small, distances that might separate you from them. That’s precisely why email, IM, and voice and video chat are so powerful — the “where” is irrelevant.
With Google Latitude, a new feature on Google Maps
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I’m not the most organized person in the world and that’s especially true when it comes to my address book and calendar. My contacts are scattered all over the place: in my phone, in my Gmail account, on the back of business cards and even in a veritable little black book.
We’re making staying organized a little easier with a
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Over the past few days we’ve made a lot of small changes to Gmail’s contact manager which, combined, should make it easier to organize the contacts you want and get rid of some of the cruft. Here’s a quick summary:
1. Contact merge (and an important caveat about auto-complete)Many of you may have seen Monday’s blog post about Google Sync which
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Filed under: iPhone, App Store
The tricks just keep on comin’ for the iPhone. Magicard [App Store link] is a good head scratcher that is always ready to perform. Have your assistant cut the cards a few times and select a card. (The method to do this is provided with a built-in tutorial video.) You keep the selected card face down,
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In a press release recently issued by Qualcomm, the company states that it’s taking direct aim at the sub-$150 smartphone market with a new chipset on offer. The platform — known as the MSM7227 — is apparently designed with higher-power, lower-cost handsets in mind, offering HSDPA / HSUPA radios, a 600MHz CPU, 320MHz application DSP, 400MHz modem processor, hardware-accelerated 3D
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We’ve had our eye on Verizon’s crazy LG handset, the VX9600, (or “Versa,” in fun-speak), since back when it was still just a doodle, and have expected an imminent launch since we caught those snaps of it in late January. So here it is — documented evidence that points to a likely March 1 launch. If you’ve forgotten (there’s no
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I’m testing out a new poll widget, and to do so FM has asked me to help with some internal research we’re doing to understand an industry (mobile carriers). If you are so inclined, might you take a minute to take the poll?
NOTE: We’re not asking which one you HAVE, but which you PREFER, IE, think is the best.
Thanks!
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Well, what have we got here? Someone has upped nine breathtaking minutes of Windows Mobile 6.5 (build 21159.5.0.0, if you must know) running live on an HTC Touch HD. The action is pretty choppy — we get the impression this is a fairly rough beta — but the new home screen, “honeycomb” launcher, IE Mobile and portrait mode, along with
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Samsung has plastered MWC’s host city of Barcelona with huge ads depicting its new Ultra Touch handset, alongside the previously unannounced Omnia HD and Beat DJ. We’ve spotted both of these handsets previously, the former being a dead ringer for the incredibly-specced Acme i8910, and the latter being that M7600 set which sports a Bang & Olufsen amplifier in a
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Here lately, we’ve been pretty impressed with just how awesome some of these Chinese knockoffs have been. In fact, we were beginning to wonder if the bona fide manufacturers weren’t in cahoots with some of these low-class acts. Thanks to China Grabber, we’re being reacquainted with the garbage that we once knew and loved, as the WebXpress handset is about
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It’s rare for a genius to truly get satisfaction in his own time. Picasso was unappreciated until much later in life and Van Gogh died before receiving the notoriety he deserved. And so we meet Joel Comm, creator of iFart Mobile, who finds himself so decidedly under-appreciated and misrepresented in the realm fart programs for the iPhone that he is
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There are already plenty of ways to get an American E63, so don’t pay too much attention to the phone on the left here — but the 5800 XpressMusic… well, that’s another story altogether. As rumored, the version of the S60 5th Edition handset with North American 3G is running $399 — though a promotion on the Nokia site knocks
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Posted by Katie Jacobs Stanton, Google Elections Team
(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)
Political participation is at an all-time high this election season, and a record number of voters have already started to cast ballots — a few even camped out in Ohio to be the first in line for early voting yesterday.
But roughly 1 in 4 Americans still aren’t registered
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Posted by Johanna Shelton, Policy Counsel and Legislative Strategist
In less than four months, U.S. television broadcasting will switch from analog to digital, a more efficient and higher quality transmission system. At midnight on February 17, 2009, all full power television stations will transition to digital-only broadcasting.
This week, our friends at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) launched a contest on YouTube
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