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Google Takes Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs and Talk Out of Beta

Grant — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:11:21 +0000

It looks like Google, starting today, is going to take Google Docs, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Docs and Google Talk out of beta removing the familiar little “Beta” tag from the bottom of the app’s logos.

Gmail had been widely popular especially since its launch in 2004 by Google back when it was an invite-only service, but still today when it was out of beta, that little label didn’t seem to scare any people away from the service, of which is one of the biggest webmail clients in use today.

“Darren” has also contributed a Google Labs feature which adds back the logo in case you feel to “standard” without it!

Gina Trapani Gets Exclusive Google Wave Access

Grant — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:50:24 +0000

Lifehacker’s/Smarterware’s Gina Trapani got some really neat, and very exclusive access to the beta versions of Google’s Wave product. Wave, described as “what email should be”, is Google’s perception of the email of the future and was showcased a one hour and twenty minute developer video showcasing it’s features.

Gina’s exclusive demo, as seen on Lifehacker and Smarterware, included a little Q & A as well as some great screenshots- check it out here.

Google Isn’t Afraid of Microsoft’s New Bing Search

Grant — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:01:58 +0000

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, in a video interview with the Fox Business Network, said that “I do not think Bing’s arrival has changed what we are doing.” and also said “It’s not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once a year”. Schmidt also talked about mobile phones, and said that this is their year. “We try to do things that really change the discussion” he said; “We are about Search and we are about making things enormously successful, by virtue of innovation”.

There’s almost no doubt you’ve seen the recent ads for Bing, either in print or on TV, promoting the way that “search has evolved” and is too congested right now. Bing was launched only a few weeks ago, and Microsoft hopes it might eventually put a dent in Google. We’ll see how Bing fairs against Google’s thousands of searches per second. Might take a little while, Microsoft…

[Via Webware]