Put simply, the company identified its app as redundant, as RIM provides the same contact and calendar sync services to its customers with native software.

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For some of its functions, like email and the calendar, you can control how much data it stores by going into settings and specifying how many messages it should show from each account, or how far back in time its calendar should sync with the calendar service it uses.

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Gmail and Calendar will sync once you get back online.

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This is not just about Facebook contacts but also the fact that events and birthdays can also sync with the calendar.

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No Google Exchange Active Sync (EAS) mail service through Outlook: Google is not supporting Windows 8 and EAS, which means that you cannot merge and sync contacts and calendar in one program like we are all used to doing in Outlook.

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In addition to Gmail, the outage also affected Google Drive, Google Chat, Google Calendar, Google Play and Google Chrome Sync.

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With the launch of CardDAV, it's now possible to build a seamless sync experience using open protocols (IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV) for Gmail, Google Calendar and Contacts.

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