Google hopes so, because the only thing different about Gmail in its post-beta reality is that the Gmail logo no longer says "beta." (It doesn't say "Final," either -- that's just our own weak ...

In addition to the beta-less Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs, and Talk (i.e., the rest of the Google Apps suite) will also shed the beta moniker. Gmail has notoriously worn the beta badge since its ...

Gmail Labs launched with 13 features in June 2008. Now the catalog boasts over 40 options that range from useful tweaks like in-message previews of linked YouTube, Picasa, Yelp, and Flickr content ...

Gmail has finally gone out of beta, after more than five years of carrying the “beta” label. But it’s leaving beta not because of any great technological leap forward, but because Google has ...

Users have up to 30 seconds to press the button. The Gmail logo is pictured on the top of a Gmail.com welcome page in New York, Friday, April 1, 2005. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images &#151 ...

Gmail turned five on Wednesday, April 1. Launched in 2004 as an invitation-only e-mail service, the Google product now has more than 100 million users. Yet it’s still in “beta”—a term of ...

It’s no accident that services such as Gmail, Google Maps, Flickr, del.icio.us, and the like may be expected to bear a ‘Beta’ logo for years at a time.” Jason E. Robbins also noted (PDF) in 2003’s ...

A lengthy beta phase is not exclusive to Gmail. As of September 2008, almost half of Google’s products were in beta, including Google Docs and Google Finance.

Because of beta, it's safe to say that Gmail 2007 is better than Gmail 2004. But that doesn't change the fact that Gmail 2004 was a search-and-conversation oriented e-mail interface in beta.

Google’s new Gmail logo looks a lot more Google-like now. The new Gmail logo includes Google’s four primary brand colors, and ditches the iconic envelope in favor of simplicity.

The feature is rolling out in beta starting today, and will initially be available for Google enterprise users to send encrypted emails to other Gmail users within the same organization.

Development on Gmail began in 2001, led by Google engineer Paul Buchheit, ... When Gmail beta debuted in 2004, how much free storage did it offer? 500MB. 10GB. 1GB. 100MB. Choose wisely!