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Google Rolls Out Gmail Call Recording
Google Voice has been updated to include the ability to record incoming VoIP calls directly from Gmail.According to tech news site Tech Crunch, a number of Gmail users have already noticed the new feature on Gmail, suggesting that Google has initiated broad roll-out of the service.
The Google Voice integration with Gmail first took place back in August, which was then followed with a couple of tweaks and a promise to introduce a call recording feature soon.
The function has been available on Google Voice for a long time – to use, people needed to press ’4′ on their keypad – but not many people were aware about.
The record button can now be found on the Gmail dial-pad, allowing people to record inbound voice calls. However, the function comes with some limitations. The function is only limited to inbound calls and voice calls made directly from one Gmail account to another do not support the recording feature.
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Google Blocks Facebook From Accessing Gmail Contacts
Google has banned Facebook from allowing its users to import their Gmail contacts onto the social networking platform.Facebook will only regain access to Gmail’s database once it starts sharing its massive user data with Gmail.
According to TechCrunch, Google has made changes to its Google Contacts API policies that will not allow third party websites to source Gmail data without reciprocity. This means that they would have to share their data before they start taking it from Google.
The move will heavily impact Facebook users, who were earlier able to import the Gmail addresses of all their Facebook friends with the click of a button.
“Google users will still be free to export their contacts from our products to their computers in an open, machine-readable format–and once they have done that they can then import those contacts into any service they choose,” a Google spokesperson said.
“However, we will no longer allow websites to automate the import of users’ Google Contacts (via our API) unless they allow similar export to other sites.” the spokesperson added.
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Google Updates Gmail For iPhone
Google has updated its Gmail.com website for Apple’s iPod Touch and iPhone devices, enhancing the Gmail experience for iOS users.The tweaked Gmail.com website features a faster in-box scroll, allowing users to zip through the in-box smoothly and easily. The company said that the speed of the scroll is equal to the speed at which users swipe on the screen.
The updates don’t apply to the iPad version of Gmail, which comes in an HTML 5 capable avatar.
The search giant has also updated the Gmail.com toolbar. Previously, when Google had last updated the website, it had updated the toolbar to move with the screen as the users scrolled up and down the in-box. However, the toolbar has now been fixed at the top of the screen for easy accessibility.
Google has made the improvements to Gmail.com for the iPhone from the many suggestions it has received from users over time. The company said that more suggestions are welcome in order to enhance Gmail on the iPhone.
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Google Launches Gmail As A Standalone App
Search engine giant Google has dished out the stand-alone version of its popular Gmail email client for the Android mobile phone OS, already available for download from the Android Market.
Initially, Gmail came integrated with the Android OS and used to get updates every time Google released a new Android version.
However, as a stand-alone app, Gmail on Android will be able to get key functionality updates more frequently than before. With the release of the new Gmail app, Google has also added Priority Inbox.
In a blog post made on the official Google Mobile blog, the company informed that the new Gmail for Android application will be able to run only on Android 2.2 Froyo or better.
Simon Arscott, a member of the Gmail for Android team, explained in the blog post that “As you scroll through a conversation, your most important message actions will now stick to the top of the screen, one click away, no matter how long the email is.”
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Google Adds Priority Inbox Feature To Gmail
The Gmail email service has been updated with a new feature which will allow users to prioritise the emails received by them everyday, one which unsurprisingly is called “priority inbox”.
According to Google, the Priority Inbox feature will categorise the emails in four categories, namely, important, important and unread, starred items and everything else. This would allow users to dig through the emails they receive everyday, to read those which are important.
Experts believe that this would reduce the time employees spent looking for emails in their inboxes, thereby enhancing productivity; Priority inbox seems to be targeting what is commonly known as “bacn”, emails that are not unsolicited but rarely read.
In a statement to BBC News, Gmail director Keith Coleman, said that “There are a lot of signals in any message that indicate importance. Basic indicators include if this message is from someone you write to a lot or reply to a lot. Another category is terms – if the word Viagra is in the message, it is indicative of junk mail.”
The search engine giant also informed that the new feature adapts to users emailing habits over a period of time, prioritising emails even more efficiently as time passes and acting like a personal assistant.
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Google Fixes Gmail Flaw
Google has fixed a bug on its Gmail service that automatically resent e-mail messages.The move comes after users flooded Google’s forums with complaints, saying that multiple copies of each e-mail written were being sent from their accounts.
Google Apps users were the largest group affected by the duplicate mail bug.
Some claimed that Google Apps was a “disaster” for them.
Following the user complaints, Google has announced that it has fixed the issue, and has updated its Apps Status Dashboard to show that Gmail is back to normal.
Speaking about the bug fix, one Google employee wrote on Google’s forum: “No more duplicate emails should be going out at this point and new messages you send out now should not be affected by this issue.”
According to tech news site IT Pro, the Google employee claimed that the last duplicate e-mail was sent out at 10:27pm Pacific Time.
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Google Testing Voice Calls From Gmail
Google is testing a new Gmail feature, set to allow users to make voice calls from Google Chat.According to tech news site CNET, users will be able to place or receive voice calls to and from their Gmail contacts, making Gmail a more rounded communication centre.
The voice call interface, which will be accessible from the Google Chat window, resembles that of Google Voice, hinting that Google might look to integrate its internet telephony services to offer users more than just e-mail on its Gmail service.
Google Voice allows users to read voice mail transcripts as text messages and offers users a common number that allows them to ring multiple phones.
The integration of Google Voice as a web-based client in Gmail indicates that Google has finally put to use the technology it acquired from Gizmo5 last year.
Google has yet to reveal its plans for the service, and a company representative has said: “Google is always testing new features and products, but we have nothing specific to announce right now.”
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Google Brings Voice To Gmail
Google has finally added voice support to its popular Gmail email service which means that users will soon be able to call landlines and mobiles worldwide for free or for extremely low prices.
The announcement was made at a press conference in San Francisco in front of a few selected press members.
Earlier, Robin Schriebman, Software Engineer at Google, wrote on the company’s blog that “Given that most of us don’t spend all day in front of our computers, we thought, ‘wouldn’t it be nice if you could call people directly on their phones?’ Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail”.
The VoIP-based service will apparently be available in the US for the time being but we’ve heard about some UK having access to it already.
Calls to the US and Canada – both to landlines and mobiles – from other countries will remain free until the end of the year without any connection fees while countries like Mexico, France and UK will be charged as little as 2c per minutes, that’s roughly 1.2p.
Google users will be required to install a voice and video plugin for the service to work and the user’s Google Voice number will be displayed as the outbound call number if already registered.
Interestingly, Google has integrated voice with the Google Chat interface and users can already search their Google contacts and make calls to them transparently. More about the service in the video below.
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Google Launches Gmail App Search
Google has launched a new feature that allows users to search their Google documents through their Gmail account.Google has added an application into its long list of Gmail Labs experiments, the ‘Apps search’, to enable users to search their documents without navigating away from their Gmail account, tech news site Information Week reported on Wednesday.
When turned on, the Apps search lab feature will allow users to scan their e-mails, as well as documents and files by putting in a keyword in the search box. The ‘Search Mail’ button will then read ‘Search Mail and Docs’.
“Once you enable it from the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, the “Search Mail” button in Gmail will say “Search Mail and Docs” instead, and your search results will include matching documents and sites in addition to email messages,” said Bram Moolenaar, a Software Engineer with Gmail in an official blogpost.
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Google Launches Gmail App Search
Google has launched a new feature that allows users to search their Google documents through their Gmail account.Google has added an application into its long list of Gmail Labs experiments, the ‘Apps search’, to enable users to search their documents without navigating away from their Gmail account, tech news site Information Week reported on Wednesday.
When turned on, the Apps search lab feature will allow users to scan their e-mails, as well as documents and files by putting in a keyword in the search box. The ‘Search Mail’ button will then read ‘Search Mail and Docs’.
“Once you enable it from the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, the “Search Mail” button in Gmail will say “Search Mail and Docs” instead, and your search results will include matching documents and sites in addition to email messages,” said Bram Moolenaar, a Software Engineer with Gmail in an official blogpost.
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