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The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to outsource its e-mail system to Google Inc, a making it the largest city in the nation to have made such a move. Welcome to the cloud.

Does your email address reveal something about your credit score? According to Credit Karma, an online credit checking service, it might.

When Google Wave was unveiled at Google I/O back in May, we noted that it was one of the most ambitious projects we've ever seen. Started as a side project in Google's Sydney, Australia offices, it had the potential to significantly alter the way online communication was carried out. And Google was betting big on it.

Google just announced that its users can now get their Gmail messages pushed directly to their iPhones and Windows Mobile phones. Push Gmail is now a feature of Google Sync.

Google said it will allow users of its email and calendar to access the online services through Microsoft Office, as it tries to woo business users.

I asked Paul Buchheit for advice on launching startups because he fathered two of this decade’s most successful online products: Gmail and FriendFeed. As part of his work on Gmail, he also developed the first prototype of AdSense, Google’s ad program. And he’s known as the engineer who suggested Google’s now famous motto: “Don’t be evil.”

Offline Gmail access is a product of Google Labs and will allow users to not only read and archive old emails but users will be able to compose emails that can be sent automatically the next time the computer connects to the internet.