Swipe between messages

As part of a flurry of changes today, Google updated its Gmail app for iOS.

The core structure and design of the app remain largely the same, but Google added several new useful features that make browsing and organizing your messages easier. Here are the highlights.

• You now can jump between messages by swiping horizontally across your iPhone or iPad display. This new action saves you from having to close an e-mail and return to your home screen before you can move on to your next message.
• The app now supports up to five Gmail accounts.
• With the Search bar, you can scan your inbox and folders using a contact's name or a specific term. Predictive text helps you type.
• In a very welcome move, you'll be able to organize a group of message simultaneously using the Action Bar. After making your selections, you then can archive the messages, delete them, mark them as unread, or report them as spam.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- If you could play high-end, 3D games in your browser at the same speed as on a console, would you? Here at the annual Game Developers Conference, the maker of Firefox revealed a plan to get you to do just that.

Mozilla's current holy grail is getting the mix of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS that powers the modern Web to run apps at speeds that rival native code, the operating system-dependent languages underpinning apps on iOS, Android, Windows 8, and other proprietary systems.

The not-so-secret weapon in Mozilla's plan is something called ASM.js, said Director of Engineering Vladimir Vukicevic. "It's a dialect of JavaScript that can optimize [code] much better. It's around two times as fast," he said.

Mozilla announced here today that through a partnership with Epic Games, it's ported Epic's Unreal Engine 3 to the Web using ASM.js and the JavaScript compiler Emscripten. Mozilla said that it's working with other big-name gaming companies including Disney, Electronic Arts, and ZeptoLab.

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