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06.02.04
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Google's email service, Gmail, has been the topic of much discussion
among the internet communities. Every aspect of Google's new service
has been dissected, with both negative and positive points of view
receiving equal time. All the while Gmail hasn't even left its beta
testing stage.
Because Gmail is still in beta, Google has been very receptive to
suggestions about their service. One such suggestion made by the bloggers
over at endgadet.com
looks like it may come to fruition. Endgadget.com, which covers high
tech gadgets, asked about Gmail's service being available to mobile
gadgets like cell phones and PDAs. |
Google
responded to endgadget by stating Gmail is going to begin offering
these new features:
- Automatic forwarding of your email to another account
- Plain HTML version of Gmail
- Import/export Contacts
The first feature, automatic forwarding, is the one for mobile gadgets.
Gmail users will be able to have incoming Gmail mailings forwarded
to their phones and/or PDAs. Endgadget's response displayed their
pleasure with Gmail's upcoming features:
"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)."
Thanks to Andy
Beal for pointing this out.
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Chris Richardson
Gmail has another competitor, this one coming from Middle Earth. The
Hobbits over at Planet-Tolkien.com have launched Shiremail, an email
service that offers a 1 gigabyte storage amount for its members. Because
they were not blessed with Google's resources, Shiremail costs members
3.50 (pound sterling) a month.
Planet-Tolkien was launched as a portal for fans of the writer's work.
The site is designed to feature many of the attributes that one would
expect from a portal site. However, these features have a distinct
Tolkien/Lord Of The Rings feel and subject. Keeping with this theme,
the group decided to call their email service Shiremail.
Shiremail, from their description, "offers a value for money ad-free
email service including three separate industry standard virus scanning
technologies, real-time spam filtering, customer support, and one
gigabytes worth of mail storage all for just 3.50 [pound sterling]
a month."
Some of the features offered by Shiremail include:
- Personal Folder Creation for easy to manage mail storage
- Diary Calendar for remembering important dates and staying organized
- The ability to change the way that shiremail.com looks and displays
information to you
- Downloading of email from other pop3 mailboxes to your account
on this server.
- Automatic mail checking with Message Highlighting based on certain
criteria
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According to their about page, Shiremail was "developed by web developers
Madfolk who operate the hugely popular Planet-Tolkien.com website
in conjunction with gradwell dot com Limited, a leading UK Internet
Services Engineering Provider."
In an article by News.com, Tarrant Costelloe, founder of Planet-Tolkien.com
said that the new email service, which was launched last week, has
already signed up 1800 customers.
"We're trying to build up features to start charging for services,
and we had a good idea people were interested in e-mail," Costelloe
said. "We originally thought about providing 10MB service, but we
knew Google was going to do 1GB, so thought we'd try to get in there
first."
I imagine that Shiremail, keeping with the LOTR theme, is the one
email service to rule them all.
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