Industrial designers Rahul Mahtani and Yofred Moik have conceptualized the addition of a “Send Envelope” button that would enable users to quickly send a physical letter — rather than an e-mail — with spiffy Google Maps-esque packaging. They call the concept Google Maps Envelopes. Mahtani and Molk envision an automated process where the click of the “Send [...]

You may or may not be excited by the acronyms OAuth and IMAP/SMTP, but the combination of them all together is very exciting news. Google Code Labsannounced this afternoon that it has just enabled 3rd party developers to securely access the contents of your email without ever asking you for your password. If you’re logged in [...]

Google Contacts needs to get better. Google and Gmail devotees regularly deal with duplicate contacts, sync abnormalities, over-stuffed contact groups, and other problems. Here are our best methods for fixing those annoyances yourself until Google does for real. Let’s be clear: We love how Google Contacts functions as a centralized database of email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, [...]

Google’s decision to redirect users in China to its Hong Kong site is the latest salvos in an ongoing dispute between the search giant, which entered China’s market in 2006, and Beijing. Here is a snapshot of the ongoing dispute and what it means for online users in China: Apple iPod touch 32 GB, Case, [...]