March 5th, 2010

Google Breathes Life Back Into reMail By Open Sourcing The Project

Last month, Google acquired reMail, the startup behind a very powerful application that brought full-text search to the iPhone. That’s great news for the reMail team, but it had a major downside: Google was effectively killing off the product by removing it from the App Store (though it would continue to function for users that had already downloaded the app). Fortunately, today comes news that… → Read More

February 17th, 2010

Google Continues Shopping Spree; Acquires reMail And Former Gmail Employee

Days after Google acquired social search startup Aardvark, the search giant has acquired another email-based startup, reMail. ReMail developed a powerful iPhone application that gives you instant full text-search for all of your Email. Launched in August, reMail is an alternative to the native iPhone mail client, which has a number of shortcomings. reMail manages to store your entire Email account… → Read More

December 16th, 2009

Rackspace Endorses reMail To Bring Full-Text Email Search To Its iPhone Customers

reMail, the powerful iPhone application that gives you instant full text-search for all of your Email, has been endorsed by Rackspace as a good solution for accessing the hosting company’s Email service on the go. Rackspace is now fully integrated into reMail, which means the process for importing a Rackspace Email account has been streamlined (users no longer have to deal with servers, port… → Read More

August 13th, 2009

reMail 2.0 Nails Full-Text Search For The iPhone

Last May I wrote about reMail, a new iPhone application that brought full-text search to the iPhone. It was quite impressive (especially given that the iPhone lacked any search functionaly at all at that point), but the application had a few problems that kept it from really catching on, including a subscription fee and some possible privacy issues (it required users to hand over their Email… → Read More

May 11th, 2009

Y Combinator's ReMail Finally Brings Full-Text Email Search To The iPhone

I love my iPhone, but I’ve always harbored some contempt for its built-in Email application. Not because of the occasional message download issues and display quirks, but because the iPhone’s Email application has absolutely no search function at all. Given how much essential data is now stored in most peoples’ inboxes, from phone numbers to flight confirmations, this has been an endless… → Read More