Google and its popular email service, Gmail, experienced issues on Monday for thousands of users largely in the United States, according to Google’s services dashboard, reports on social media, and online tools that monitor website outages. The issues appeared to be affecting the East Coast near cities such as New York and Boston, as well as areas on the West Coast near San Francisco and Los Angeles, according to Down Detector, which tracks website outages.… Read more

What’s changing We’re opening a beta program for Gmail confidential mode. With confidential mode, it’s easier to protect sensitive content in your emails by creating expiration dates or revoking previously sent messages, and removing options for recipients to forward, copy, print, and download. Who’s impacted Admins and end users Why you’d use it Built-in Information Rights Management (IRM) removes the option to forward, copy, download or print messages.… Read more

Dropbox has finally delivered on a long-awaited partnership with G Suite for native editing tools, and it definitely seems like it was worth the wait. Dropbox Group Product Manager Josh Kaplan said in a blog post on Tuesday that the open beta—for now available only to Dropbox Business teams—allows a whole host of functions, including being able to store, create, and edit Google Slides, Sheets, and Docs within Dropbox.… Read more

Google took a long, long break from Google Voice a while back. After letting the app fall into disrepair, Google expressed a renewed commitment to Voice in 2017. It has since announced a handful of feature updates, including VoIP calling in 2018. However, that feature never actually rolled out to everyone. Google’s Scott Johnston says it’s almost time, though. We know that some Voice users got VoIP calling as far back as September.… Read more

Google  is launching an update to Google Drive today that will make it easier for teams and agencies to use a mix of G Suite and Microsoft Office while working with their colleagues and customers. With this update, Google Drive users can now easily comment on Office files, PDFs and images in the Drive preview pane without having to use (and potentially pay for) tools like Microsoft Office or Acrobat Reader — or having to convert them to Google Docs, Sheets or Slides files.… Read more