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Google Wave and Google Buzz may have had troubles attracting usage, but the new ability to place calls from Gmail appears to have caught on quickly.

“Over 1,000,000 calls placed from Gmail in just 24 hours!” Google tweeted Thursday, evidently pleased with the number.

For comparison, there are somewhat more than 300 million people in the United [...]

Google, under fire regarding the Google Buzz privacy snafu, wants to make extra sure that Buzz users are aware of their privacy settings.
Over the course of the day on Monday, Google plans to ask Buzz users to reconfirm their privacy preferences when they log into the service. The idea is to show existing users [...]

Shortly after Google announced the partially successful cyberattack on Gmail, the company said it will activate by default a secure network technology for its e-mail service.

Google has long offered the option to access its Web-based Gmail service by using HTTPS–a secure version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that Web browsers use to retrieve information from [...]