Gmail joins six other Google services in billion-user club

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Who doesn’t use Gmail? Apparently, plenty of people still, given it took the world’s most popular email client several months longer than Facebook to cross the one billion active users mark. One billion monthly active users, to be exact, compared to FB’s daily billion count, though the feat remains a remarkable one.The figure stood at 900 million just eight months back, and in case you’re wondering, Google Search, Chrome, Android, Google Play, Maps, and YouTube indeed reached the ...

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Inbox by Gmail streamlines response messages with Smart Reply

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

It’s been just over a year now since Google brought smartphone users on iOS and Android a powerful new way to manage their communications with the launch of Inbox for Gmail. From the start, the app set out to be smarter than your traditional email, using machine learning to identify message highlights, bundle similar emails together, and optimize search performance. This week Google’s announcing the latest feature to come to ...

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Gmail for Android picks up handy block-sender, unsubscribe options

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

How much email do you have to wade through on a daily basis? If you’re anything like most of us, that answer is probably “too damn much,” and you’re eager to pick up any new tools that become available in that never-ending quest for inbox zero. Today Google’s announcing a couple new features about to hit Gmail for Android, both aimed at keeping mail you don’t want out of your inbox in the first place.The big new one is Gmail’s block-sender feature: find yourself on the ...

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What is machine learning, and how is Google using it to keep spam out of your inbox?

Posted on by Joe Levi

The movie Terminator Genisys is in theaters now, and is warning us away from computers that think for themselves (remember, Genisys is Skynet!). No, Pocketnow didn’t turn into a movie reviews website while you weren’t looking, but the movie does draw some parallels with the topic, so we’ll run with it.Just in case you didn’t know (SPOILER ALERT!), in ...

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This week’s Google app-update Wednesday is a big one

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

We’re no stranger to Google updating its software on Wednesdays, and each week we look forward to news of a few apps picking up a tweak, bugfix, or new feature here and there. While normally that means a handful of apps being tapped for updates, this week’s lineup is a bit larger than most, with at least a dozen Android apps seeing updates headed their way today.This isn’t necessarily an exhaustive list, but new updates are available today for Blogger, Chrome (as well as Chrome Beta), ...

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Today’s your day to get a Google Inbox invite

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

It’s been two weeks now since Google decided that Gmail alone just wasn’t cutting it for the email needs of the modern smartphone user, and introduced Inbox, a supposedly smarter, more streamlined approach to email. The productivity-focused app launched for both Android and iOS, but with one pretty big stipulation (one that had us feeling nostalgic for the early days of Gmail itself): Inbox was invite-only. If that idea alone turned you off, today might be your cue to reconsider things, with Google ...

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Google updates email for 2014 with launch of Inbox for iOS and Android

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Over ten years ago, Google first launched Gmail as a private beta. In the decade since, the service has gone public, spread to mobile devices, and changed the way many of us access our messages. Recent improvements to Gmail like categories have endeavored to help keep email relevant as we get more and more of it, and keeping on top of the important bits becomes increasingly difficult. Rather than continue to push Gmail further away from its ...

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Gmail 5.0 brings Material Design and supports other email services

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Google has been gradually rolling out updates to its existing services over the last couple of weeks. We’re still a few weeks away from the official launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop to the world, but we’ve already seen what Material Design looks like in apps like the Google Play ...

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Gmail update brings closer integration with Google Drive

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

It’s hard not to commend Google for the job the company has been doing in enhancing the services we consume through Android and even iOS at times. We’ve seen frequent updates to services like Google Now and YouTube over the last couple of weeks, and today Gmail takes a turn at some enhancements. The company is pushing an update that will provide you with a couple of new enhancements, ...

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Gmail Android update brings updated graphics and new Drive integration

Posted on by Rithvik Rao

What’s a better way to kick your week off than with some fresh Google app updates? The latest Gmail Android update brings a fairly significant amount of changes, such as UI tweaks, new Drive integration features, and a couple Easter eggs in true Google fashion. The first and foremost user interface change comes with the refresh indicator, now cycling through the entire Google rainbow rather than the holo blue color of the past. Settings, Feedback, and Help have all been moved over to the ...

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Gmail for Android passes one billion downloads mark

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

What’s the most popular Android app out there? Candy Crush Saga? Not even close. Facebook? Zuckerberg wishes. Unsurprisingly, it’s some of Google’s own apps that see the largest installed user bases, reaching a significant majority of Android devices. But even among what many of us consider the core group on indispensable Google apps, some show more activity than others. A little earlier this month the most popular one around reached a pretty big ...

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Google makes it easier to email photos snapped with your phone

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

As Android users are only too aware, Google’s been pushing Google+ pretty hard. If you’ve decided to go ahead and embrace the service and all it offers, that means you’ve probably got Auto Backup enabled, loading all the pics you shoot with your Android phone’s camera to the cloud. Already, that’s meant opening yourself up to a bunch of cool features, like Auto Awesome and Auto Enhance, but today we learn of one more, with the debut of a new ability for Gmail. This is the web version of ...

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Upcoming Gmail changes previewed in latest leak

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

The Google app updates we just shared with you – those for Keep, Play Movies, and Newsstand – are already on their way to users’ phones. But there’s one more update we’ve heard people talking about today that isn’t quite ready for prime time, and its changes aren’t yet set in stone, still the stuff of rumors. Although that puts us in a slightly less-than-enviable position for talking about it, it’s such a major component to how many Android users get things done on their ...

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iPhone 6 camera disappoints, iTunes for Android, Oppo Find 7 samples & more – Pocketnow Daily

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Google’s new strategy to make Gmail more secure through encryption. Nokia follows the news as we get possible launch dates for the Nokia Lumia 630 and the Lumia 930. Apple is next as we get some odd rumors of the company planning to bring iTunes to Android devices. Oppo is next as we have the first 50 megapixel samples of the Find 7, and the results aren’t that good. We end today’s show talking about the rumors of the iPhone 6 disappointing in its megapixel count. All this and more after the break. Stories: -

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Google Now may auto-suggest Calendar events based on your conversations

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Google already takes advantage of the connections between all the services it offers to provide its users some convenient, time-saving tools. For instance, when you get a message in Gmail that mentions a time or date, Google automatically detects that text, underlines it, and gives you a quick way to add the event directly to your Google Calendar. From the looks of things, though, Google may be about to take this kind of automated system and really run with it, letting Google Now detect events in conversations you have from ...

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