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Triaged Email at Tablet Scale: Mailbox App Comes to iPad

Mailbox, the iPhone email app that some folks really love — and that Dropbox loves so much it paid many millions for — is now available for the iPad. The swipe-to-triage service still only works with Gmail, but it has been modified with panels to fit the larger screen. No Android yet.

New Hangouts App Conflicts With Google Voice Feature; Fix Coming

Tough luck for Google Voice loyalists, as the new Hangouts messaging product denigrates a key function of Voice. Change is coming, but it could be a while.
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With Revamped Hangouts, Google Aims to Unify Messaging

Google’s new take on messaging is finally here.
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News Byte

Google Unifies Free Storage Products

Guess this move wasn’t deemed important enough for the I/O keynote. But for those who carefully meter their free Google storage, life just got a little easier. Google now gives users 15 gigabyte to be split up among Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos however they like.

“Path Does Not Spam Users”: Dave Morin Talks About the Hyper-Growth Pains of a “Personal Network”

The Path CEO addresses spamming accusations and concerns about his startup’s recent viral growth in an interview with AllThingsD.
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Galaxy S 4 Is a Good, but Not a Great, Step Up

The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is an evolution of prior Samsung models and despite some improvements, it still is especially weak in the software Samsung adds to basic Android.
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Voices

Google Musical Chairs (Comic)

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Letting Go of Gmail

Walt answers readers’ questions on deleting a Gmail account, Roku and transferring files from an old PC to a new one.

Mailbox: Swipe Your Way to a Clutter-Free Inbox

Mailbox for iOS helps turn your email inbox into an action center rather than a storage center, but it has limitations.
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Voices

Myanmar Denies Hacking After Gmail Warnings

Myanmar’s government denied its agencies were involved in hacking after Google technology warned a number of journalists using Gmail that their accounts might be the target of state-sponsored hacking.

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