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Earlier this week, RIM pushed out an Enhanced Google Mail plug-in for BlackBerryBlackBerry Rocks! users who use GmailGmail or Google Apps mail accounts. This shouldn’t be confused with the separateGoogle Mobile suite for BlackBerry, as this add-on actually integrates some Google-centric enhancements to the regular BlackBerry mail interface. Here are some of the highlights: # The ability to star and label messages # Mark messages as spam # Perform a local or remote search of your entire inbox # Threaded view
Read on at mashable.com

GoogleGoogle is clearly enamored with the netbook space. We already know that it’s serving as an entry point for the new Chrome OS, but Google isn’t just going to sit around and wait for that, it’s starting to optimize its experience for netbooks already. Tonight, Google has just released a small new feature in Gmail Labs so that users can optimize their email service for viewing on netbooks. It’s a small, but noteworthy setting as netbooks have become popular, yet most still run sites just as full-sized laptops would. GmailGmail’s engineers apparently had a problem with that, so they launched the new “Remove Labels from Subjects” feature… Read on at TechCrunch.com

Think about it: GmailGmail and by extension Google Apps are core products for GoogleGoogle, which is in essence a search engine company. XoopitXoopit enhances the search functionality of their web-based e-mail service. You’d think it’s a no-brainer for Google to go after the startup if they knew its management and investors were open to a sale. And if the selling price was really only $20 million, it’s not the money that would make Google think twice… Read on at TechCrunch.com

When it comes to delivering marketing emails, GmailGmail may very well be the iron curtain. According to new data from email marketing firm Return Path, 23 percent of commercial messages sent to Gmail users never reach inbox, making Gmail the toughest email service for marketers to send to. Overall, more than one-fifth of all commercial permission-based emails never land in subscriber’s inboxes, according to a MediaPost report… Read on at imediaconnection.com

PayPal and eBay spam has gotten to the point that I’m not really sure how the actual companies send any legitimate emails anymore. I’ll pretty much automatically delete anything that purports to come from them, unless I’m expecting a payment from someone via PayPal. Read on at Mashable…

We get asked all the time why GoogleGoogle keeps its products in beta for so long. And Gmail, five years after launch, is consistently a subject of this questioning, even of jokes.
Some people thought that once we opened sign-ups, GmailGmail should have come out of beta. Details…