Google learned some harsh lessons on Father’s Day when it reminded Gmail users to “Call dad.” Despite good intentions, the reminder triggered a backlash among users with deceased, abusive or otherwise ...

It’s become the email equivalent of separating church and state: work email is for official communications while private accounts are for personal — and sometimes inappropriate — messaging. But as the ...

December 16, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Around my house, hacked email accounts were something that happened to other people—relatives with weak ...

Google kept its users pretty well informed during the latest outage -- but please, guys, don't try to hide behind percentages If you were one of the users who logged on to Gmail this past weekend to ...

Last week was an unhappy one for Google. It suffered two major outages; the root cause of each could concisely be described as “oops”. For 47 minutes Dec. 14, many Google Cloud services were ...

Google says you have 7 days to recover your hacked Gmail account. Update, April 23, 2025: This story, originally published April 21, has been updated with mitigation advice for various hacking ...