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Google has updated the account/profile box that is displayed below the navbar and the Google+ sharebox, with an emphasis on multiple accounts. It's now easier to switch between two Google accounts while remaining logged into both.
It's been possible to be logged into two or more accounts for a while now. T... |
11 April 2012
05:06 GMT |
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Google is launching an interesting new feature dubbed Account Activity. While it may seem like a security tool, and it is in some ways, it's more like an analytics tool for your Google activity, with info such as the number of searches you've made last month, how many views your YouTube videos have and so o... |
29 March 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Google has introduced a new account creation page. Hard to believe for some, but, yes, there are still people who don't have a Google account. Until recently, all you needed was an email address, any valid one would do, and a password.That is no longer the case, new users now have a Gmail account automatically c... |
20 January 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Google+ is not the only Google service growing fast, one of the oldest and most iconic, Gmail, has seen a surge of new users as well. There are now 350 million Gmail users, the company announced during its earnings call, for the fourth quarter financial report.That'sl a lot of growth in a short amount of time. I... |
20 January 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Google is always experimenting with new features, new products, new technologies. Experiments, by their definition, can fail. Granted, you don't hear about the failed ones all that often and what Google calls experiments is just user testing, a feature that needs to be tweaked before it's unleashed onto the... |
17 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Google has introduced a very interesting new feature, 'login by QR code,' which makes it safer to log into your Google account on a foreign computer. There aren't many use cases for the feature, but you'll be glad it exists when you actually need it. Visiting accounts.google.com/sesame will gener... |
16 January 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Google has introduced a very clever way of making sure that you don't get locked out of your account and that someone else doesn't lock you out either. If you try to login with an older password after you've changed it, you'll be notified that there's a new one and you can take steps if an er... |
7 December 2011
11:12 GMT |
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With all the hype around HTML5, all the latest web technologies, smartphones, tablets and so on, it's easy to forget that the web, for many, many people, meaning hundreds of millions, is not the same as the web we're most accustomed to.For many, the first contact with the web is via simple phones with simpl... |
4 October 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Google is now requiring all users that want to sign up for an account to provide their birth date. This was only required in the US until now, and even there only for the past year or so.
The reason for this new requirement is to keep out children who are younger than 13 years.
If you enter a date that indicate... |
27 August 2011
04:16 GMT |
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The new Google design is spreading to every corner of the company, more and more of its products are embracing it, albeit not always for the best. Since the new design will eventually be adopted by all Google services and websites, there should be no surprise that the company is testing it in more and more places.The... |
12 August 2011
12:21 GMT |
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Google has created a page showcasing why it's a good idea to have a Google account. That may seem odd to quite a lot of tech savvy folks who have created one years ago. It's hard to imagine that someone doesn't have a Google account at this stage, but there are plenty of new people coming online and pl... |
16 May 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Blogger was one of Google's first acquisitions yet the process of integrating it with Google's products isn't done yet. Eight years after buying it, Google is finally ending support for legacy accounts in favor of universal Google accounts.Granted, Blogger used its own accounts system until 2006 and on... |
16 April 2011
05:30 GMT |
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YouTube is urging its veteran users, who may still be using regular YouTube accounts created on the site, to link them to their Google Accounts. While YouTube isn't explicitly saying what happens if you don't, you can assume they'll simply stop working. Or, most likely, users will be forced to link the... |
25 March 2011
12:13 GMT |
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Google proves again that it is the leader when it comes down to mainstream account security by making 2-step authentication available to all Google Account owners.Multi-factor authentication that combines a traditional password with additional identification methods, such as one-time use codes, has long been used in ... |
10 February 2011
12:28 GMT |
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The web can be as dangerous as anything in the real world, yet most people treat online security lightly. In the interest of keeping accounts safe, Google has a few tips an pointers on online security. While most are common sense or have been repeatedly stressed by security experts, it's safe to say that most pe... |
16 October 2010
09:04 GMT |
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In addition to announcing that two-factor authentication is available for Google Apps, the search giant revealed its plans to extend the technology to all Google accounts in the upcoming months.Two-factor authentication is the practice of using two independent methods to verify a user's identity before granting ... |
20 September 2010
09:48 GMT |
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Earlier this year, Google announced that it will be enabling Google Apps users to register for regular Google services, using their Apps email addresses. Now it is announcing that it has begun to transition some users to the new infrastructure necessary to support this.There are several criteria for those that are al... |
8 September 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Google is moving one step closer to bringing more of its services to Apps users, specifically, services so far reserved to regular users. Google has said that it will allow Apps users to sign up for Picasa, Blogger and any number of Google services using their Apps accounts.Now Google is moving forward with the plan ... |
2 September 2010
05:31 GMT |
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Google has finally made the formal announcement about the multiple-account sign-in support. Earlier this week, Google started enabling people to sign into more than one Google account at the same time in the same browser. The feature has been rolled-out to everyone, so Google posted an official announcement on its Gm... |
6 August 2010
05:11 GMT |
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Google has started rolling out multiple sign-in support, a feature that had been in testing until now. It is not available to everyone yet, but it looks like Google is in the process of enabling it for all accounts. The feature allows users to sign into several accounts at the same time enabling them to use certain G... |
3 August 2010
09:50 GMT |
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One of the best parts of having a Google account is that it works for all of the company’s products and can also be used to log into third-party sites in plenty of places. Yet there are users that have multiple Google accounts for various reasons. Unfortunately, Google, like practically any other website out th... |
14 July 2010
10:56 GMT |
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With tons of products under its belt, Google is part of many people’s online life. And for all those products, all you need is one account. Handy, since there are also plenty of third-party websites and services that accept Google accounts. But more and more users also have Google Apps accounts and it is somewh... |
5 July 2010
08:43 GMT |
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