Here’s a new way to get social context about your friends while you’re busy with email. Xoopit, a company that makes a Firefox browser add-on for Gmail, now also lets you both update your Facebook ...

There's a buzz around Buzz, Google's status update and content-sharing feature in Gmail. Sound familiar? Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV ...

As classic Hangouts is set to go away for Workspace customers, Google continues to update Chat and Spaces with more capabilities. A small tweak sees Gmail for Android introduce new status bar icons ...

Gmail or Google Mail, the widely used email service app, has a useful Availability Status feature that help others know if one is available on the other side of the screen or not. Gmail users can pick ...

The built-in Google Talk client in Gmail has added an "Invisible" option to the status dialog, letting you appear offline or unavailable to other Gchat users, but able to see who's online and start a ...