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Orkut Changes Their Logo

I haven’t seen anything on this or anyone say anything about it, so I’m not sure why. But I just noticed, based on memory, that the logo for Google’s Orkut service has changed. The color is the same, but the font is different. See the new logo for yourself (sorry, I don’t have an old…Continue Reading…

15 Minutes of Fame

Neat – for the first time, Elliot Lee’s blog (you’re looking at it) is getting some publicity. After I posted about the 1TB Gmail bug (which I did not know was a bug at the time), CNet News.com posted a story which included a link to it: Others who spotted the change posted notices to…Continue Reading…

Cost of Storing All the Email in the World

Here’s an interesting theory from a Slashdot comment. Google doesn’t even need the limit. (Score:5, Interesting) by image (13487) on Wednesday May 19, @09:21AM (#9194576) (http://www.breakdownindustries.com/) A few people have made the comment that Google can do this because 99% of the people will only use a few MBs of storage anyway. Reasonable theory, but…Continue Reading…

1 Terabyte (1,000 GB) of Gmail Storage

It looks like the space limit in my Gmail email account is now 1,000 GB (one million megabytes): I’m not the only one. My guess is that this increase is in response to Yahoo’s announcement that their free email users will get 100mb space. As if it wasn’t enough already? ;) Who knows if it’ll…Continue Reading…

Yahoo Increases Mail Storage to 100MB in Response to Gmail

Yahoo announced that it plans to dramatically raise the storage limit for its free email users while also giving its premium subscribers “virtually unlimited” capacity. These upgrades were revealed by Yahoo executives at an analyst meeting last week, where the company demonstrated that it is ready to take on Google, which grabbed headlines with the…Continue Reading…

Google’s Ticker Symbol to be GGL.XX?

Google Wants Fair Stock Value But Looks For Big Bucks By MARK BOSLET April 30, 2004 9:13 p.m. Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES PALO ALTO, Calif. — Google Inc. (GGL.XX) argues it wants its stock price to reflect a “fair-market” value for the company – not runaway speculation. But the Internet search engine also seems to…Continue Reading…