Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on November 10, 2006 by CyberNet.

It has been months since Gmail has gotten any changes but it finally got a minor update. When I saw all of the emails in my Inbox regarding the updated Gmail I was hoping for the best, which would be integration between many of their products. That’s not exactly what happened though.

There are 5 new features that Gmail has and the most prominent one would be pictured to the right. There is no longer a “More Options” link instead there is a “Show/Hide Details” link and that only shows you the detailed information about the email. The Reply, Forward, Delete, and all of those links are placed into an easy-access menu in the upper-right corner of the email. I do think that I like this a little more than before.

The other 4 features as listed on the What’s New page are:

• Embarrassment-reducing new message notifications – Ever replied to a message only to find out that someone sent a better, smarter reply right before you? Now, if someone sends a reply while you’re in the middle of reading a conversation (or replying to it), you’ll get a notification that a new message has arrived. Click “update conversation” to see what you’ve missed.
• Forward all – When viewing a conversation, use the new “Forward all” link on the right if you want to forward the entire conversation instead of just one message.
• Chat even when your friends are offline – already knew about this one.
• Get Gmail on your mobile phone – already knew about this, too.

I am still disappointed with the lack of integration that Gmail has with their other services. I think, just like the Chat history, there should be menu options on the left of Gmail for:

• Google Reader
• Google Notebook
• Google Calendar
• Google Docs & Spreadsheets
• PicasaWeb
• and even Google Personalized Homepage

All of those would load within the screen so that the common sidebar is always visible. Once they integrate their services with Gmail I’m sure more people will start using them for the convenience but right now most people don’t even know about them.

Oh yeah, they spelled Embarrassment wrong on the What’s New page as well (they only put one “r”). I thought it was funny because any spell checker would have caught that.

Thanks for everyone who sent in this tip!

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It looks like you can expect to see a lot more of Lenovo in Deutschland. The company is buying German consumer electronics maker Medion — a deal worth up to €629.4 million ($907 million), according to The Wall Street Journal. That makes it the company’s biggest acquisition since it bought IBM’s PC business back in 2004. Lenovo’s end game: to boost its market share in Germany, which happens to be Europe’s largest PC market. All told, it hopes to own 14 percent of the PC category there — roughly double what it commands now — and expects its share of the Western European computer market to hit 7.5 percent. Lenovo’s announcement comes at a time when it seems to have some strong upward momentum — just last week, the company reported that its fourth-quarter profit more than tripled year over year (much to Wall Street’s surprise) and that it generated $21 billion in revenue thanks to growth in every product line and every region where it does business. PR chock full ‘o numbers after the break.

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Thinking about upgrading your iPad or iPhone just to add more storage for videos, photos and music? Kingston hopes to save the day with its Wi-Drive, a WiFi-enabled battery-powered storage device designed exclusively for use with iOS. Several factors make the pocket-sized device a tough sell, however, including its cost ($130 for 16GB, $175 for 32GB), and the fact that this otherwise clever content sharing contraption adds yet another gadget to your already crowded portable mix. We’d probably save up for a new, higher-capacity device before accessorizing our old gadgets, but a compact media server does seem like the perfect companion for a road trip, serving up HD videos and other content simultaneously to multiple devices using the free iOS app. This is strictly a content server — while you can move move content off the drive and later transfer it back, there’s no backup tool included, and Kingston says we shouldn’t expect one in the future, either. Click past the break for our impressions of Kingston’s flash-based server, due to hit stores later this month.

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We know, we know — you should’ve left the office hours ago, but if you hang tight for just a wee bit longer, you’ll be able to join us on our journey of the last D9 liveblog for June 1st, the year two-thousand and eleven. Hot on the heels of Steven Sinofsky and Leo Apotheker, it’s the president and CEO of Nokia, Mr. Stephen Elop. He’s been doing the media rounds while camped out in California today, and now it’s our turn to see how he reacts to Walt and Kara’s questioning. Live coverage of the interview continues after the break!

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We’re live from Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky’s keynote at D9, and there’s something rather exciting on stage — a pair of experimental Windows 8 dev boards running an OS that looks very much like Windows Phone 7’s Metro UI. All Things D actually sat down with the man earlier today and got a sneak peek at what to expect starting with the live tiled screen you see above — and yes, like Windows Phone 7, this OS is designed for touch.

There’ll be two kinds of applications for Windows 8, one that runs in a traditional desktop, and the other pseudo-mobile apps based on HTML5 and Javascript, but both environments — rather, the entire OS — have been designed from the ground up for touchscreen use. Keyboard and mouse will still be options for both sets of programs, but there are multiple virtual sets of keys for different form factors, including a split keyboard for vertical slate use. Multitasking is simply a matter of swiping running apps into the center of the screen, and you can pull windows partway to “snap” them in place alongside other windows — even mixing and matching traditional desktop programs with web apps simultaneously (like Twitter alongside your spreadsheet). There’s a new version of Internet Explorer 10 (which runs Silverlight) and an app store built into the touchscreen interface, along with integrated services like Office 365. Microsoft says the new OS will run on laptops, tablets and desktops when it appears — whenever that might be.

All Things D didn’t have any details on when we’ll get pricing or availability, but we’re looking at some Intel Atom-based demo units on stage right now, and Microsoft says it will have ARM designs (the OS will support NVIDIA, TI and Qualcomm) viewable on the Computex show floor, and more will be revealed at the Build Windows developer conference in September. We should note that “Windows 8” is just a codename for what we’re seeing here — “we’ll figure out the real name in due time,” Sinofsky told the crowd — but we don’t see much harm in calling it Windows 8 for now.

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