Google is on the move again, but this time they’re not releasing new services or buying anyone; they’re improving the services they already have.

Gmail now supports IMAP, which means that you can now read your GMail account mail in desktop email clients, and the changes will be reflected in your GMail inbox. One more reason to fully switch to GMail, if you haven’t already.

Meanwhile, as reported by Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim, Google Calendar now supports Google Gears, which means you can access it and work with it even when offline.

Well, almost: it currently does not work for me, which probably means that Google has released this new feature to selected GMail accounts only. Looking forward to this one; Google Calendar is one of my favorite Google applications and being able to access it offline makes perfect sense.