If Gmail users want to keep all their data and services – like YouTube or Google Drive – connected to their @gmail accounts, the e-mail address itself have always had to stay the same.PHOTO: REUTERS

Gmail to let users change their addresses while keeping data

· The Straits Times

NEW YORK – For more than 20 years, Gmail, the world’s largest e-mail account provider, has made it easy for users to change the username on their e-mail accounts.

But if users wanted to keep all their data and services – like YouTube or Google Drive – connected to their @gmail accounts, the e-mail address itself always had to stay the same.