Fans of Google’s Gmail and Calendar services may be happy to note that the Gmail Notifier has been updated on August 18th to include Google Calendar notifications. They have also made it a little quicker to see the last few messages by including snippets in the main notifier menu.

Note that this isn’t an upgrade, so much as a replacement application (at least on the Mac version, haven’t tested the windows version yet). The older version was called “Gmail Notifier”, this version is “Google Notifier”. Update: The latest Windows version does not offer Calendar functionality. At this time, that feature is available for Mac users only.

This looks like the first major shot across iCal’s bow. They have also recently announced the beginnings of a branded office suite for businesses, it stands to reason that the Notifier will become more and more integral to Google’s services. What other features do you see Google rolling into the app in future revisions?