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Google Revamps Gmail Web Mail Service

Date: 2010.08.11 | Category: Google Mail | Response: Comments

Google has implemented a number of major changes to its web-based email service Gmail, technology news website Tech Crunch reported on Tuesday.

In particular, the search giant has given Gmail’s contact manager tools a much-needed makeover.

“You’ve asked us to generally make Contacts easier to use, as well as for specific improvements like sorting by last name, keyboard shortcuts, and custom labels for phone numbers, wrote Benjamin Grol, product manager at Gmail in his official blog.

According to Grol, other newly implemented changes include an auto-save feature, redesigned navigation bar, the ability to add and organise new fields, suffixes and titles, keyboard shortcuts, custom labels for phone numbers and other feeds, along with the ability to undo changes, more prominently displayed notes, and sorting by last name.

The new-look tools are already available to Gmail users, while Google apps users will be able to access them soon.

Originally published on ITProPortal.com
Google Introduces Message Security Tool For Email Service

Date: 2010.04.01 | Category: Google Mail | Response: Comments

Search engine giant Google has upgraded its Google Message Security tool, an email filtering feature based on pre-set policies and secures email systems against spam and virus. The update includes two new features, namely, Dual Delivery and Health Check.

According to a blog post on the official Google Enterprise blog, Google Postini team member Gopal Shah, explained that the new Dual Delivery will allow organisations to send an email message to two different platforms, which will make it easier for them to shift to a different platform if they want to.

The company also reported on the blog post that the new Health Check feature will allow email admins to beef-up the security of the email systems, by maximising the effectiveness of its spam filter.

Citing it has a ‘self-service tune-up’, Google explained that the Health Check feature will allow admins to view ‘health’ report related to the impact of their current security configuration on the level of spam and viruses.

Commenting on the Google Message Security client, which is based on Postini technology, Gopal Shah wrote on the blog that “Google Postini security services work in the cloud to help prevent spam and viruses before they hit your servers. These services also make it easy for admins to fine-tune filtering options to get the right level of protection.”

Originally published on ITProPortal.com
Google Adds Suspicious Activity Alert To Gmail

Date: 2010.03.25 | Category: Google Mail | Response: Comments

In an attempt to address one of the soaring concerns pertaining to the reliability of cloud computing services, Google has beefed up the security capability of its email service Gmail with the incorporation of an ‘intruder alarm’ that provides information about bizarre account activities.

The newly integrated warning system boasts of the capability to notify users when some unusual activity happens with their account that may eventually end up with potential hacking attacks.

However, since back in July 2008, Gmail has incorporated a link named “Last account activity”, which provides important info, like when the account was last opened, along with the internet addressed used.

Apparently, with this new feature, Google is further taking the aforementioned feature a step ahead, to help the users have information about any existing potential threat to their email accounts.

Describing the new functionality, the official Gmail blog reads: “If it looks like something unusual is going on with your account, we’ll also alert you by posting a warning message saying, “Warning: We believe your account was last accessed from…” along with the geographic region that we can best associate with the access”.

The sweet irony of course is that this feature is being added a few months after Google revealed that the Gmail accounts of some of its Chinese users had been compromised by hackers, something that could have triggered this new intruder alarm.

Originally published on ITProPortal.com
Google Promises To Improve Gmail Speed

Date: 2010.03.15 | Category: Google Mail | Response: Comments

During the SXSWi festival in Austin, Texas, search engine giant Google has confessed that Gmail can at times be painfully slow and has promised to fix the problem as soon as possible.

Speaking at the festival, Google’s ‘Behind the Scenes of Gmail’ panel, in an interaction session with the audience, asked the people present there to raise their hands if they thought that the email service was slow.

TechCrunch reported that, when the panel asked the question, a significant number of people raised their hands in frustration.

The problem with the popular email client is that the service becomes excruciatingly slow for those users who have hundreds of emails stored in their account and the inbox storage left of their inbox is running low.

According to Pocket-Lint, Gmail’s sluggish performance also affects those who constantly switch between a regular Gmail account and a Google Apps account.

However, the panel reassured the Gmail users that the problem had been zeroed-in and a whole team was working towards fixing it. The company also indicated that some where down the line, users will be able to integrate their Google Apps account with their Gmail accounts.

Google’s Gmail service has a massive user base across the globe and has been ranked the third biggest email service in the world, right behind Yahoo Mail and Microsoft’s Hotmail.

Originally published on ITProPortal.com
Google Rolls Out Secure HTTP For Gmail Globally

Date: 2010.01.20 | Category: Google Mail | Response: Comments

Google Inc. on Wednesday has announced that it will ramp up the security of its free email service Gmail by automatically encrypting all the traffic carried on it, primarily in the wake of row over Chinese attacks.

The search engine giant noted that it would begin implementing the ‘Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure’ (HTTPS) technology to protect its Gmail users from unauthorised intrusions and eavesdropping.

HTTPS is a well-known web-based protocol among geeks that merges the standard HTTP internet protocol with an extra layer based on the SSL or TLS protocol.

Such protection is normally employed by banking services as well as e-commerce websites to safeguard confidential customer details from cyber fraudsters.

As of now, the HTTPS protection technology is confined to login pages to safeguard passwords, and encryption of email traffic has been an opt-in procedure as yet.

However, with this new change, the search engine bellwether has moved all the users to HTTPS security by default, under which all the email traffic on Gmail would be automatically encrypted.

The company has further argued that the benefits of such a move would perceptibly be more important than the small impediment it would cause to the email delivery speed.

Sam Schillace, Gmail Engineering Director, commented on a blog post: “Over the last few months, we’ve been researching the security/latency tradeoff and decided that turning https on for everyone was the right thing to do”.

Originally published on ITProPortal.com