Gmail (for iPhone)

The standalone Gmail app for iOS searches your entire email so much easier and faster than the pre-installed Mail app, it's definitely a recommended download, and could very easily become your primary app for Gmail.

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Semi-Automatic Gmail Assistant gadget sends rude replies

Let SAGA handle those pesky e-mails for you.

Sometimes it's hard to say "no." You get an e-mail from a friend who wants you to read, critique, and edit his 500,000-word epic sci-fi fantasy novel. Your boss wants you to forfeit the next 12 weekends to help out with a pet project. This is when you need to have the Semi-Automatic Gmail Assistant (SAGA).

SAGA looks deceptively simple. It's a colorful rectangular box with a chrome button, a place for a key, and a USB hook-up for your computer. Your computer sees it as a standard keyboard.

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When you get an e-mail that requires a delicate response, you arm SAGA with a turn of the key. LEDs light up around the button, calling you toward it like a seductive siren. You push it. SAGA automatically e-mails the erudite response "Go F

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Gmail now the biggest email service in the world

Gmail has finally surpassed Hotmail to become the most popular email service in the world.According to ComScore, Gmail just took the lead, despite the email provider self-reporting the leader spot over the summer.

ComScore does not track mobile, however, sticking with only home and work usage.

For the month of October, Gmail saw 287.9 million unique worldwide visitors, barely beating out Hotmail/Live at 286.2 million uniques. Yahoo finished in third at 281.7 million.

In the U.S., Yahoo holds the lead at 76.7 million, beating out Gmail at 69.1 million and Hotmail/Live, a distant third at 35.5 million.

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