Gmail Blog

• Landing another blow against email phishing

  Posted by Adam Dawes, Product Manager Email phishing, in which someone tries to trick you into revealing personal information by sending fake emails that look legitimate, remains one of the biggest online threats. One of the most popular methods that scammers employ is something called domain spoofing. With this technique, someone...

• Improvements to the Gmail offline Chrome app

  Posted by Dave Stewart, Senior Software Engineer When we first announced Gmail offline last August, we told you that it was only the beginning of our HTML5-powered offline journey. Since then, we’ve been listening to your feedback and today, we want to let you know about some of the key updates...

• One more present under the tree—custom video messages from Santa

  Posted by Trevor Claiborne, Product Marketing Manager Last Friday Santa opened up the Ho Ho Hotline and teamed up with Gmail to send personalized holiday phone calls to anyone you know who has been nice (or naughty, for that matter) in the U.S. or Canada. In just a few days Santa...

• Scribbles for Gmail for mobile - a creative way to email

  Posted by Donna Dupuis, Software Engineer From prehistoric humans etching in caves to the modern-day thinker sketching a stroke of genius on a napkin, scribbling is a natural form of human expression. Not constrained by formatting or font styles, scribbling is a versatile outlet for expressing individuality and creativity. Not to...

• Ho-ho-hold the phone: Santa’s on the line

  Posted by Trevor Claiborne, Product Marketing Manager Last year, Santa got his very own Google Voice number, and people around the U.S. received a special personalized holiday phone call from Santa Claus. This year, Santa wants you to reach out to him (after all, reindeer are only so-so conversationalists). If you or...

• Updates to the Gmail app for iOS

  Posted by Ingrid Fielker, Software Engineer When we launched the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, we said we were just getting started and would continue to release updates regularly. Today we updated the app with some new features and interface improvements. We've added the ability to set a custom...

• Free calling within the US and Canada through 2012

  Posted by Vincent Paquet, Group Product Manager As the holiday season approaches, we're happy to announce that we've extended free domestic calls within the US and Canada for 2012. This is our way of helping you connect with friends and family across the country. And you can still call the...

• Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+

  Posted by Mark Striebeck, Engineering Director We want to bring you a great experience across all Google products which, for Gmail and Contacts, means understanding what you care about and delivering it instantly. With that in mind, we’re introducing some new integrations with Google+ that we think will make Gmail...

• Testing Gmail’s new look

  Posted by Mark Striebeck, Engineering Director Editor's note: This post, like yesterday's, is more technical than most posts here, but we thought some of you might find it interesting to look inside how Gmail works. Yesterday, we talked about how we make changes like the new look to Gmail. The new look...

• Developing Gmail’s new look

  Posted by Mark Striebeck, Engineering Director Editor's note: This post is more technical than most posts here, but we thought some of you might find it interesting to look inside how development on the Gmail team works. Developing the new look for Gmail was like the proverbial “changing tires on a moving...