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Nah that communicator thing is legit. Just repeat 1 gigabyte of FREE email storage to yourself a few times. It has to be an april fools. The biggest one I've seen too, it'll give google a column in most papers and possibly a bit in a few news programs worldwide tomorrow.
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Posted: 2004-04-01 13:41:22
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well I am pleased to say that CNN mentioned the Gmail story today and they confirmed that they spoke to google respresentatives who confirmed it was not an april fools day hoax!
indeed there is a
BBC article about it today
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Posted: 2004-04-02 09:57:38
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Nice, very nice. I saw a bit on bbc ceefax as well. That's a whole lot of free space.
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Posted: 2004-04-08 12:34:34
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I read a CNN article too. And as i recall there was something dodgy about it. Something to do with EU rules about privacy protection.
I'll search a bit...
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Google's 'Gmail' under fire
Tuesday, April 6, 2004 Posted: 8:09 AM EDT (1209 GMT)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Search engine Google's new free e-mail service, "Gmail," is under fire from privacy groups even before it has been officially launched.
One campaign group, Privacy International, says Gmail violates European privacy laws because it stores messages on its system long after users have deleted them from their mailbox.
The group, which has offices in Britain and the United States, also opposes Google's plans to scan users' e-mail in order to paste appropriate advertising into messages.
"This is not just 'buyer beware.' Consumers should be aware that there's a vast violation of European law occurring here," Reuters quoted Simon Davies, director of citizens' group Privacy International, as saying.
Europe's privacy protection laws are much stricter than those in the United States, where Google is based. European consumers, for example, have the right to retain control over their communications.
"If a person deletes an e-mail, he should be confident that e-mail is actually deleted," Maurice Westerling, co-founder of Bits of Freedom, another privacy interest group, based in the Netherlands, told Reuters.
"Besides, Google cannot just open e-mails. Communication in Europe has a very high degree of protection."
As part of its service, Gmail would include a built-in search function that will let people search every e-mail they've ever sent or received.
According to company executives, users will be able to type in keywords to sort e-mails or find old missives.
Google, which is the world's most popular search engine and is launching Gmail to compete against rivals Yahoo! and Microsoft, argues e-mails will remain private because it will assign computers, not people, to scan content.
"No humans read your e-mail to target the ads," it said on its Web site.
It will come with one gigabyte of free storage -- more than 100 times what some popular rivals offer and enough to hold 500,000 pages of e-mail.
Analysts have said that Google -- whose technology is behind nearly four out of every five Web searches -- could shake up the free e-mail market.
Yahoo! dominates the e-mail niche, with 52.6 million unique users per month in the United States, according to a February survey by online research firm comScore Media Metrix.
Microsoft's Hotmail is next, with 45.4 million users. AOL has 40.2 million paying users.
Rivals have kept stripped versions of e-mail free and asked users to pay annual fees up to $30 or more for extra storage and spam protection
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Posted: 2004-04-08 12:44:47
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from this
BBC artcle
Google's Gmail sparks privacy row
Internet search engine Google's plans for a free email service have come under fire from privacy campaigners.
Google is devising Gmail as a rival to Microsoft's Hotmail and to Yahoo!
Privacy campaigners have objected to plans to send users adverts linked to the content of messages, and to the permanent storage of email.
Campaign group Privacy International has filed a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner, Reuters news agency reported.
The Information Commissioner's job is to make sure organisations comply with a web of laws safeguarding privacy and freedom of information.
Online snooping?
Privacy International objects to Google's plans to send users links to advertising based on a computer scan of their correspondence, and presumed interests.
At present, users of Google's internet search engine receive advertisements for commercial sites linked to their search topic arranged down the right-hand side of their screens.
Gmail would use similar technology to scan emails and offer advertisements.
Google says the content of users' email would remain private because the process would be fully automated.
"No humans read your emails to target the ads," Google's web site says.
But Simon Davies, director of Privacy International has called the proposed system "a vast violation of European law".
Too much of a good thing?
Gmail's proposed message storage systems are also angering privacy campaigners.
Google has promoted free storage for each user of the equivalent of 500,000 pages of email among Gmail's benefits.
Google says this will enable users to retrieve vast amounts of old emails, and that it will back this up with superior spam filtering.
However, its terms of use acknowledge that "residual copies of email may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account".
"If a person deletes an email, he should be confident that email is actually deleted," Bits of Freedom founder Maurice Westerling said.
Google has a commanding lead in the global internet search engine market, although its market share has shrunk sharply during the past month after Yahoo stopped using Google technology to power its searches.
Google is privately-owned, but expected to float on the stock market later this year, a deal that could value Google at up to $25bn (£14.7bn) - slightly more than listed online retailer Amazon.
The California-based company was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
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Posted: 2004-04-08 12:47:31
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The advertising thing based on keywords wouldn't bother me, but storing them after you deleted is a bit dodgy really. I guess There's always a price to pay.
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Posted: 2004-04-08 13:14:55
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You might be interested to hear that gmail are announcing these upcoming
features:
- Automatic forwarding of your email to another account
- Plain HTML version of Gmail
- Import/export Contacts
Very cool! We’re looking forward to forwarding/notifying our cellphones via SMS when we have new Gmail and since there will be plain HTML, that means access on all/most of our devices. If Google does this right, Gmail might be the best email solution for mobile devices (and you get a gig of storage).
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Posted: 2004-06-02 17:18:39
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This week they added the ability to store the password in the log-in page for up to 2 weeks.ppl are getting tired of typing it in each time, so thanks for that.
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Posted: 2004-06-04 17:15:43
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They've also just
announced full support for Apple Mac OS X's
Safari web-broswer! So I'm happy...
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Posted: 2004-06-05 01:14:12
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I just signed up with Spymac yesterday
I didnt want to wait for GMail
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