There are plenty of good reasons why you might want to change your email account. You want or need to change email providers, you hate your current email address, or you’ve become inundated with spam.

For the first time since Gmail launched, Google is preparing to let people change the actual @gmail.com address tied to their account without starting from scratch. That sounds like a small tweak, but ...

For nearly two decades, a Gmail address has been permanent; once chosen, it followed users for life. That long-standing rule now appears to be changing. Google is quietly rolling out a feature that ...