Email & Collaboration Industry Fortnightly: September 11, 2019

Gmail for Android updated with ‘swipe-to-switch’ account gesture (9to5google.com)

Google continues making improvements to the Gmail app. Many people have multiple Gmail accounts, for work, personal purposes, etc. Gmail for iOS already has a very convenient gesture for switching accounts and this is now available for Android as well.

Google wants to kill text messages and the networks aren't happy (wired.co.uk)

"RCS is an SMS upgrade” says Nick Lane of Mobilesquared, a mobile market research company, which estimates that there’ll be more than a billion monthly active users of RCS messaging by the end of the year. Up from 311 million users at the end of June 2019, and 3.2bn by 2023.

Google Calendar makes ‘Working Hours’ more prominent, enables by default (9to5google.com)

More and more tech companies are encouraging work-life balance and Google Calendar is now making its “Working Hours” feature more prominent and enabled by default. I personally find that a bit passive-agressive ????

Yahoo Mail down: Huge outage leaves users across the world unable to sign in, with AOL also suffering problems (inews.co.uk)

Yahoo Mail, which is still very popular with hundreds of millions of people, suffered a major outage last week.

50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google (washingtonpost.com)

Will this be anything like the big Microsoft antitrust case of the late 90s? We’ll keep you posted.

Microsoft's MyAnalytics work assistant now encourages you to slow down and focus (www.pcworld.com)

Microsoft is improving their personal productivity software with data from Office 365 and other sources.