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Gmail
hideGmail is a free webmail, POP3 and IMAP service provided by Google. In the United Kingdom and Germany, it is officially called Google Mail.
Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007. As of July 2009 it has 146 million users monthly. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite.
With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4MB its competitors offered at that time. The service currently offers over 7350 MB of free storage with additional storage ranging from 10 GB to 400 GB available for $20 to $500 (US) per year.
Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. Software developers know Gmail for its pioneering use of the Ajax programming technique.
Gmail runs on Google Servlet Engine and Google GFE/1.3 which run on Linux.
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Microsoft's cloud computing system is growing up
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system. Now, the company is fighting to keep those programmers ...
Web-based e-mail features come to desktop software
Nov 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- E-mail has taken a full circle. Over the years, Web-based e-mail services have gotten much better, sporting many features once available only with the e-mail programs that reside on the computer desktop.
Google co-founder Brin prefers Yahoo! without Bing
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed amazement at resistance to the Internet giant's efforts to digitize the world's books and lamented a deal to have Microsoft handle online search at Yahoo!
Google wooing Microsoft business customers
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Google on Monday ramped up a campaign to convert businesses worldwide into users of email, calendar, document and other software programs it offers online as services on the Internet.
Gmail tool catches misdirected messages
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Google on Tuesday added an embarrassment-avoidance tool that catches misdirected Gmail messages before they are fired off by users of the free Web-based email service.
Google gadget lets websites go multilingual
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Google on Wednesday released free software that lets website operators automatically translate online pages into any of 51 languages.
Google apologizes for Gmail outage
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Google apologized Thursday for a Gmail outage which left some users of the free Web-based email service cut off for the second time in a month.
Google blames Gmail outage on server maintenance
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Internet giant Google has blamed server maintenance for a Gmail outage which left millions of users without the free Web-based email service for more than an hour and a half on Tuesday.
Gmail knocked offline for 'majority' of users
Sep 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc.'s Gmail service was knocked offline Tuesday in a severe outage that the company said affected a "majority" of users.
Google adds Malay, Swahili others to automatic translation
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Internet giant Google announced Monday it was adding nine more languages to Google Translate, its automatic translation program.
Google adds translation program to Google Docs
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Internet giant Google added automatic translation to Google Docs on Thursday allowing users to translate documents into 42 languages.
Twitter hacked by old technique -- again
Jul 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Breaking into someone's e-mail can be child's play for a determined hacker, as Twitter Inc. employees have learned the hard way - again.
'Tasks' software is Gmail Labs first graduate
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Google Labs brainchild "Tasks" graduated from the sandbox on Tuesday as the Internet giant seeks to entice computer users to switch from packaged software to programs offered online as services.
Google's Chrome OS a direct shot across Microsoft's bow
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Google's dramatic announcement that it is developing its own operating system seems designed to target Microsoft squarely in its Achilles' heel: the shift to Web-based computing that threatens the very core of the software ...
Gmail drops 'beta' label to woo business customers
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- After more than five years officially in testing mode, Gmail is finally graduating from "beta."
