Tag: gmail
Will webmail services be the next social networks?
The New York Times’ Bits blog has an interesting piece about Google and Yahoo’s plans to turn their webmail services (Gmail and Yahoo Mail respectively) into fully fledged social networks.
Gmail launching free IMAP email for all users
Google has today announced that it will be rolling out free IMAP email to all its Gmail users. For the uninitiated, IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is generally considered the best way to synchronise an email account across multiple devices….
Google may be developing offline version of Gmail, challenge to Microsoft?
According to "highly placed sources", Google is currently working on an offline version of its highly popular web-based Gmail email service, making it possible to read and reply to emails even when not connected to the Internet, just as with…
Google begins selling additional online storage
Google has started offering additional space to its Gmail and Picasa users, increasing storage quota from 2.8GB and 1GB respectively, and will roll out the offer to some of its other services, including Google Docs and Google Spreadsheet, in due course.
A range of plans have been introduced, from 6GB of storage for $20 per year to 250GB for $500 per year.
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 26-June-2007: Librarians, ATMs, German Gmail, internet radio, French BlackBerries
– College librarians have been given a rap over the knuckles and told to start ‘thinking like video gamers’. Err…so start thinking about boobs, Monster Munch, and how wrong the BBFC are for banning Manhunt 2?
– Who knew that the world’s first ATM was installed in a branch of Barclays in Enfield, north London, 40 years ago this week? The maximum withdrawal allowance was a tenner, which “was regarded then as quite enough for a wild weekend”, the 82-year old inventor claims…
Apple insider reveals iPhone's secrets
Actually, there are plenty of ‘insiders’ coming out of the woodwork to spill the beans on how iPhone performs – probably more insiders than there are actual Apple employees.
Can Google's Switch mobile compete with Apple's iPhone?
A slightly fatuous question perhaps, given that Google Switch is still a rumour, albeit one with a freshly-minted set of allegedly-leaked photos. According to Engadget, Switch will be a touch-screen device made by Samsung, but branded as Google. It'll have…
Friday Top 10: spam recipes we learnt from Gmail
You've probably noticed the Google ads that sit on the page when you're using Gmail. It's one of the ways Google makes money out of your free email service. But have you noticed they also appear at the top of…
