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Google has added the ability for Google Voice users to receive text messages by e-mail. The move gives users a long requested feature, says TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington. Read More

Brad Garlinghouse, a former Yahoo executive who highlighted problems at the company in his “Peanut Butter Manifesto,” has been named president of Internet and mobile communications at AOL, reports The New York Times. Read More

I don’t use Gmail for business, which is a good thing today, given that I have been on the losing end of the intermittent outages that are plaguing Google’s free e-mail service. However, I do use my Gmail account for a variety of reasons — actually, today I was booking travel, so that does kind of count as work — and man is it frustrating to be without your e-mail for even an hour or so. Read More

On Thursday, Google made translation a feature of Google Docs, reports CNET News. Read More

According to the latest comScore survey results, Gmail usage has climbed and the Web mail service has surpassed AOL to become the third largest e-mail service in the United States. It’s estimated that Gmail’s user base has increased 25 percent so far this year and saw 37 unique visitors during the month of July, according to Marketing Pilgrim. Read More

Good thing Gmail is out of beta. It is now the third largest Web mail service in the U.S. In July, Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million for AOL, according to comScore estimates. (Gmail is the orange line in the chart below). That puts Gmail within sight of the No. 2 player, Windows Live Hotmail, which has 47 million unique visitors. After that there is a wide gulf separating Yahoo Mail and its 106 million monthly unique visitors. Read More