When you’re visiting sites other than Gmail, it’s easy to find out how many unread messages are in your inbox by glancing at the title of your Gmail tab or window. However, if you have a ton of tabs open, or if you use Chrome’s “Pin Tab” feature that hides everything except the tab’s icon, it [...]

Many of us are guilty of constantly switching back to Gmail to check for new messages. And if you’re like me, you’ve probably missed an important chat message because you weren’t looking at your Gmail window when it came in. If you use Google Chrome, these days can be over since we just launched HTML5 [...]

Google has been quietly adding a raft of new features to its Google Docs online office suite over the last few months, and there are rumors even more significant features are due very soon. Here we take a look at some of the more interesting upgrades. Fonts Google Docs now features the Calibri, Consolas, and [...]

Google Message Security (GMS) offers multiple levels of protection against viruses, including the use of virus-detection engines, early-detection filtering, protection against zero-hour threats, and antivirus heuristics.  Here are Baker Security & Network’s answers to some of  customers FAQ’s on GMS :- Q. How does GMS work? What does it use to filter spam and manage [...]

People expect email to be as reliable as their phone’s dial tone, and our goal is to deliver that kind of always-on availability with our applications. It’s been a couple years since we bloggedabout the reliability of Gmail, so we thought we’d share some changes to our Google Appsservice level agreement (SLA) and some new data. [...]

Google has been an early and consistent supporter of email authentication technologies, which help ensure senders are who they say they are, and in turn help to curb spam. Since we launched Gmail in 2004, we have supported email-signing standards such as DomainKeys and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) to help validate outbound mail with digital signatures. [...]

While most organizations using Google Apps provide unrestricted email access to their users, some schools and businesses need to maintain a safer and more secure environment by allowing certain users to only send and receive email within the organization. This “walled garden” approach has been a popular feature request for K-12 schools looking to provide [...]