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Official Gmail Blog: Really new in Labs this time: SMS Text Messaging for chat
Official Gmail Blog: Really new in Labs this time: SMS Text Messaging for chat
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:32 PM 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 ...
Official Gmail Blog: Get your Gmail stickers
Official Gmail Blog: Get your Gmail stickers
gmailblog.blogspot.com — Thursday, December 04, 2008 3:27 PM Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Gmail Product Marketing Manager Not too long ago, one of the Gmail engineers broke out her vinyl cutter and made some Gmail m-velope stickers. Pretty soon, they were pasted to our desks, ... (more) Official Gmail Blog: Get your Gmail stickers
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Tasks
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Tasks
gmailblog.blogspot.com — Monday, December 08, 2008 3:51 PM Posted by Jonathan Terleski, Michael Lancaster, and Brett Lider, Tasks team People use Gmail to get stuff done, so we've added a lightweight way to keep track of what you need to do, right from within Gmail. Take ... (more) Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Tasks
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Turn an email into a Google doc
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Turn an email into a Google doc
gmailblog.blogspot.com — Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:40 PM Posted by Jeremie Lenfant-Engelmann, Software Engineer More than once, I've had a conversation over email and later realized that the information contained in the messages would make a great starting point for a ... (more) Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Turn an email into a ...
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Google habilita SMS no chat do Gmail
MacMagazine — Anunciado no início de novembro, o recurso de troca de SMSs no Gmail foi habilitado hoje pelo Google. Tal como seu recém-lançado gerenciador de tarefas, ele está disponível em fase de testes no Labs. Para enviar uma mensagem, basta que os usuários digitem um número de telefone na caixa de buscas no topo da janela de chat (localizada na coluna lateral esquerda da interface do Gmail), de forma que eles podem ser associados a contatos, evitando que a pessoa tenha que redigitá-los todas as vezes. Cada contato do Gmail é ...

Gmail SMS Text Messaging for chat
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google introduced a new Labs feature that lets you send SMS text messages right from Gmail. SMS messaging is currently available for cell phones in the United States, but you can send texts to US phone numbers from anywhere in the world. The text messages count as part of your regular mobile messaging plan and might incur fees. ...

Gmail Adds Text Messaging (Again)
Today @ PC World — ... . For the moment, Google says you can only send texts to U.S.-based cell phone numbers, but you can send them from anywhere in the world. To try out the new feature, click the Google Labs link in your Gmail window. Then, find the feature called "Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat;" click the "Enable" radio button, then "Save Changes" and you're ready to go! google sms text messaging To start texting, let your mouse hover over a contact in Gmail Chat. You then click on "Video & More" and select SMS. Alternatively you can switch to SMS from an open chat window via the "Options" ...

How To Send SMS Text Messages With Gmail's Chat [Gmail]
Gizmodo — ... Just go to the Labs area in preferences to turn it on—you can just enter any number in the Chat contacts bar, or add numbers to your existing contacts. Messages show up being sent from your own unique 406 area code number, and replies will be router back into the Gchat window. You've been able to do this with other IM services for a while, but if you're like me and everyone I know and rarely leave your Gmail pane, this is handy. [Gmail Blog via ...

GFI: Gmail SMS Chat, Take Two
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech — ... Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews If at first you don’t succeed … Google tried rolling out SMS chat, a way to send text messages to cell phones with a permanent return address, in Gmail a few weeks ago, but had to pull it back when a showstopper bug was found. On Thursday, Google said “this time for sure” in a blog post , as they started rolling it out to users again. By the way (or BTW), GFI means “Go for it.” To use it, enable it in the Labs section of your settings. Click on Settings, and go to the Labs tab. Scroll down to “Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat” and select Enable and ...

Infinite SMS iPhone app: send and receive free SMS in USA
iPhoneWorld.ca iPhone News Headlines — ... Posted by james on February 18th, 2009 at 09:40pm Here is a great app for those that live in the USA (sadly it’s not available for residents of other countries, at least not exactly — read on for details). The Infinite SMS iPhone app allows you to send and receive SMS messages for absolutely free. It does so by providing an interface that is similar to the one that the in-built iPhone SMS app is using, in combination with Google’s GTalk service that as of recently features SMS support . So what you do is install the program, then either sign up for a free Google account (if ...

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Official Gmail Blog: Gmail Labs goes global
gmailblog.blogspot.com 3/31/2009 — Monday, March 30, 2009 7:12 AM Posted by Pal Takacsi, Engineering Manager This post comes to you from our team in Switzerland, a small country with no fewer than four official languages and many more spoken by people living here. The majority of Gmail ...
How To Send SMS Text Messages With Gmail's Chat [Gmail]
gizmodo.com 12/11/2008 — Google today rolled out a Labs feature that allows you to quickly send SMS messages via Gchat—perfect for continuing to antagonize your contacts with your witty links well after they leave their computer. Just go to the Labs area in preferences to ...
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Offline Gmail
gmailblog.blogspot.com 1/28/2009 — Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:00 PM 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 ...
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Calendar and Docs gadgets
gmailblog.blogspot.com 10/28/2008 — Monday, October 27, 2008 6:57 PM Posted by Dan Pupius, Gmail engineer Gmail Labs has been a really fun way to easily try out new ideas and get some of our pet feature requests implemented quickly. We wanted to take this to the next level and let you ...
Say hello to Gmail voice and video chat
gmailblog.blogspot.com 11/11/2008 — I once told someone that Skype would never take off because it had two barriers to entry: installing the software and getting people to re-build their buddy list around it. Regarding the former, this still needs a plugin (and doesn’t work ...