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Three Spammers Accused of Largest Data Breach in History
The US Department of Justice has charged three men with what could be the biggest data breach in the history of the internet. The three spammers are accused of stealing billions of e-mail addresses from the databases of e-mail service providers. Two of the men, Giang Hoang Vu and Viet Quoc Nguyen,…
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Sharing Dropbox Files in Gmail Now Easier Thanks to Chrome Extension
Big user of Dropbox? Well thanks to a new Chrome extension, it is now easier to share Dropbox files in Gmail. The extension is only in beta stages, but works similarly to adding files from Google Drive. Simply select the file with the Dropbox menu will attach it, and add…
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Google Rolls Out Money Attachments for Gmail in the UK
Google’s ‘Attach money’ feature for Gmail, launched in the US back in 2013, is now being rolled out to UK account holders. The feature transfers funds through e-mail from the user’s Google Wallet account. Launched in 2011, Google Wallet is a pre-paid mobile payment service that can be linked to…
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Gmail Begins Appearing Back in China
We only reported yesterday that Gmail had disappeared in China, but it looks like Chinese Gmail users are getting access to their accounts once again, after a huge four-day outage. Google’s own Transparency Report shows that there is a slight jump in traffic, but it is nowhere near what it…
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Gmail Has Been Blocked in China
Google’s popular email service, Gmail, has finally been blocked in China. GreatFire.org says that China’s ‘Great Firewall’ had finally kept citizens from accessing the service altogether, after months of incomplete attempts at blocking it. It’s said that the service was blocked on Friday, with users completely unable to get in. The news…
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Google Inbox to Support Custom e-Mail Addresses
The main complaint about Google Inbox – Google’s new Gmail app that displays related incoming message as ‘bundles’ – is that it doesn’t support custom e-mail addresses. On Wednesday, however, the Gmail Inbox Team, during a Reddit AMA, announced that custom address functionality, as part of its Google Apps support,…
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E-Mail Startup Acompli Acquired by Microsoft
Startup e-mail app Acompli has been snapped up Microsoft. The moves surprised no one, since news of the deal accidentally leaked last week when a blog draft with the url http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/25/microsoft-acquires-acompli/, written by Microsoft Vice President Rajesh Jha, turned up on RSS feeds. Acompli’s free e-mail app, for iOS and…
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Get An Invite into Google’s Inbox App – Be Quick
So you’ve probably heard about Google’s new Inbox application, it’s a new cross-platform app that works for Gmail. Inbox automatically highlights important emails, allows you to sift through them with a clean and intuitive interface and tries to remove all of the clutter that surrounds most inbox’s. The application thus…
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5 Million Gmail Passwords and Usernames Leaked
First Apple had their iCloud fiasco, and now the business giant Google has seen 5 million of its users have their usernames and passwords published online. The evidence of this has been seen on Russian forum boards, incorporating a comprehensive list of all the people affected and are now seencirculating around…
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Gmail Scan Leading to Man’s Arrest Was Not a Privacy Violation
The news from earlier this week, where the scanning of a man’s Gmail account had led to his arrest for child abuse and pornography, sparked quiet the stir in the on-line community. Big brother is watching you and other conspiracy theories started to flourish, as so often when Google is in the…
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Leaked Image Shows Massive Overhaul of Gmail
An image has leaked online showing that Google is planning a massive overhaul of the Gmail service. Google are no stranger to running betas and trials, constantly tweaking and updating their services to try and stay ahead of the game, but this one certainly stands out as it’s radically different…
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Gmail Add More Features To Fight Junkmail
Fed up of getting a constant stream of marketing mails, are you unable to find the unsubscribe link in the email, or maybe you just keep putting off removing your name from the mailing lists? Well don’t worry, it looks like Google have got a solution for Gmail users that…
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Google’s Gmail Performs Magic Tricks, Deletes Random User Emails
We had Google Services down for more than 30 minutes, randomly selected email addresses pasted in the “To” field when searching Gmail on Google’s Search Engine, and now we hear that there are even more problems cropping up on Google’s services, namely Gmail (again). A recent Gmail bug has been…
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Gmail Spams Other People’s E-Mail Accounts Now?
After the incident about the Google services going down today, TechChrunch and Gizmodo also found some interesting things about Google’s Gmail services. If you are to search for Gmail on Google, you will get a link like the one below, which will open up a new e-mail pre-filled with somebody’s…
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Google Services Go Down For 50 Minutes? What Next, The Internet?
Today, Google’s Gmail and Google+ services has been down for roughly 50 minutes. Reports from Europe, Canada, India, United States and other countries confirm that it was a worldwide phenomenon which affected a lot of users, including companies, from big to small. Whoever tried to access Gmail or Google+ would…
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