Gmail-SMS to all the Contacts!

News: Google has added new SMSing facility to its Gmail account holders living in the most of the world countries. The Contacts in their accounts can be SMSed using their phone numbers.
What I did? I tried all my might to add the phone numbers of my three mail contacts and sent SMSes to them and tested as per this --> Gmail helping procedure. But two of them except one were not sent SMS with the following display in the Chat Box:

Could this be the reason? - Only part of the cellular phone operators of India are supported by this SMSing facility as per this --> news.
But note here that there was no response from the Contact to whom my SMS message was sent, and reported back as sent by Gmail. I called this Contact by voice call and confirmed that he didn't receive the sent SMS! Could all this be the Google's experimenting on Gmail users? Or could you explain this seemingly useless feature? Share your experience in this with us.

Sifymail upgrades by Google Apps!

As I opened my Sifymail account, I was surprised to see a webpage titled as Google accounts welcoming to my new account! It contained Google Terms of Service. Why does Google enters into another email provider's page? Google started to provide its Google Apps on 'Software as a Service' (SaaS) mode in 2006. Sify Technologies Ltd. that ranks in the top of 30 Indian websites as per Alexa, started to use Google Apps' SaaS software delivery in 2008 under an agreement with Google Inc. Thus Sifymail was powered by Google Apps platform. It offers its services under its own brand name, leaving all the hard work of management to Google! Now, why there has been the need for accepting the Terms of Service here, I wondered. The reason is that the Google is now offering many 'Additional Services' in using the Sifymail account.

After clicking on the 'Accept' button, my Inbox opened, greeting with a mail from Sify announcing its upgrading with additional services of Google such as Bloggers, Google Groups, Google Maps, Google+ and others!

Google Document is now Google Drive!

The other day when I opened my Google Document, an option was presented before me to retain the Google Docs or to shift to the new Google Drive. I opted to the Google Drive. Many features have been driven away and the Google Docs has been made simpler now into Google Drive.

Google Drive

Google Drive can be accessed from any device. From mobile, access to it is made possible by a mobile apps. You can now work with more file types. The access to it is also faster. 

Read more here about it --> Google Drive!