{"id":58860,"date":"2014-10-23T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T11:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=58860"},"modified":"2014-10-23T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T11:44:16","slug":"google-offers-new-email-app-inbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=58860","title":{"rendered":"Google offers new email app, Inbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"full-width\" class=\"container-full-width\">\n<div class=\"index-date\">\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Google is revamping its email service with a new mobile app it is simply calling Inbox.<\/p>\n<p>It is an attempt to reorganise overcrowded inboxes and ensure important emails are not overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the tech giant has invited a select group of Gmail users to try out the new service. Some experts believe it will eventually replace Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our biggest rethink of email since Gmail, really excited about Inbox,&#8221; wrote one Google executive on Google+.<\/p>\n<p>Among the main changes, Inbox will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>highlight key information from important messages, such as flight itineraries, event information and photographs<\/li>\n<li>let users add their own reminders &#8211; to pick up dry-cleaning or give parents a call, for example<\/li>\n<li>categorise messages &#8211; clustering together receipts or bank statements for instance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We get more email now than ever, important information is buried inside messages, and our most important tasks can slip through the cracks &#8211; especially when we&#8217;re working on our phones,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/10\/an-inbox-that-works-for-you.html\">wrote Sundar Pichai, senior vice-president of Android, Chrome and apps.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For many of us, dealing with email has become a daily chore that distracts from what we really need to do &#8211; rather than helping us get those things done,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Reaction from the technology press appeared to be mixed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/10\/22\/7041227\/google-inbox-hands-on-this-feels-like-the-future-of-email\">The Verge described it<\/a> as the future of email. &#8220;It&#8217;s perfectly happy to have you use your email as a to-do list,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>But<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/10\/22\/google-inbox-hands-on\/\"> Mashable pointed out<\/a> that other apps such as Mailbox and Box do similar things, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/10\/22\/google-inbox\/\">Engadget questioned <\/a>whether it would really signal the end of Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"now\" class=\"container-now\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is revamping its email service with a new mobile app it is simply calling Inbox. It is an attempt to reorganise overcrowded inboxes and ensure important emails are not overlooked. Currently the tech giant has invited a select group of Gmail users to try out the new service. Some experts believe it will eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":58863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-58860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}