Posted by Venkat Panchapakesan, Vice President of Engineering (Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog and the Google Docs Blog.) For web applications to spring even farther ahead of traditional software, our teams need to make use of new capabilit…
Posted by Grace Kwak, Product ManagerToday we’re adding two features that make it easier to customize Google Calendar. First, you can now change your default event length from the standard 30 minute slot. If you frequently create 15 minute meetings, …
Posted by Maciek Nowakowski, Associate Product ManagerToday we’re excited to graduate three more features from the experimental testing ground of Gmail Labs. Superstars, Nested Labels, and Advanced IMAP Controls are now first-class citizens in the Gm…
Posted by Zohair Hyder, Software Engineer(Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog)Email is just as much about the people you communicate with as it is what you communicate about. We think it can be helpful to view relevant information in context, wh…
Posted by Matthew Leske, Product Manager From the beginning, we designed Google Talk using open standards so that you could connect to your friends and family using any chat product, making communication as easy as possible. A few years ago, we announc…
Posted by Michelle Chen, Software Engineer If your calendar ends up full of many different types of events (film nights, lunch dates, and doctor appointments, for example), there’s now an easy way to categorize them using colors. Only you and anyone …
Posted by Mike Helmick, Software Engineer Gmail used to have a limit of 10,000 contacts. For most of us, this was way more than enough, but we heard from some of you who use Gmail to communicate with more than 10,000 people. We want you to be able to …
Posted by Paul McDonald, Product Manager Gmail offers a ton of customization, and when you get hundreds of emails every day it’s crucial that you have it set up to process mail quickly and efficiently. Working on Gmail, I get asked all the time what…
Posted by Kathleen Chen, Consumer OperationsLast month we kicked off “Faces of Gmail,” a series where we’ll introduce you to some of the members of the Gmail team. For our first post, we spoke with Manu Cornet, an engineer in Paris who made some …
Posted by Gregory Yakushev, Google Calendar Team Google Calendar sync started supporting the 32-bit version of Outlook 2010 back in August. Outlook sync has continued to be a top feature request, which is why we’ve continued to improve upon it and ar…
Posted by Patrick Doyle, Software Engineer We’re always looking for ways to make Gmail faster. One of the most common delays happens after you hit that “Send” button, when you’re waiting patiently for a couple seconds for Gmail to send your me…
Posted by Maciek Nowakowski, Associate Product Manager, Gmail Enterprise Team Today we’re making a small change that makes it easier to handle long label names: you can now add and edit label names up to 225 characters. The old limit was 40 character…
Posted by Will Scott, Software EngineerOrganizing your Gmail contacts into groups can save you time when you’re writing messages to multiple people at once. For example, if you create a “Family” group, instead of addressing an email to your mom, …
Posted by Andrew Wilson, Software EngineerMany of us are guilty of constantly switching back to Gmail to check for new messages. And if you’re like me, you’ve probably missed an important chat message because you weren’t looking at your Gmail win…
Posted by Manu Cornet, Software EngineerWhen you’re visiting sites other than Gmail, it’s easy to find out how many unread messages are in your inbox by glancing at the title of your Gmail tab or window. However, if you have a ton of tabs open, or …