Whoa… Much toxic computer waste lands in Third World Investigators who visited the waste sites in Guiyu, China, in December witnessed men, women and children pulling wires from computers and burning them at night, fouling the air with carcinogenic smoke. Other laborers, making $1.50 a day and working with little or no protection, burned plastics…Continue Reading…
It’s official…Gmail is legit – The Unofficial Google Weblog Well, the debate of whether or not Gmail was a joke has been settled. In an interview with Reuters, Jonathan Rosenberg, Google’s vice president of products, had this to say: “It is April Fool’s Day. We were having fun with this announcement. We are very serious…Continue Reading…
As you can see in the below screenshot, Google is advertising its brand new Gmail service via Adwords. All signs seem to indicate that this is no April fool’s joke.
This is just so darn interesting. Slashdot | Google’s Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? Re:It’s no lie…. (Score:5, Informative) by mac-diddy (569281) on Wednesday March 31, @06:13PM (#8732700) whois shows that the domain gmail.com was created back on Aug 13, 1995 [whois.net], which is actually before google.com domain was created (Sep 15, 1997 [whois.net])….Continue Reading…
Google will be launching a free email service providing 1 GB (yes, one gigabyte) of storage for every single user! Is it an April Fool’s joke? Not really sure! By the way, Gmail is an awesome name in my opinion – try saying it aloud and comparing it with the word E-mail. The official press…Continue Reading…
Wired News: Outsourcing Report Blames Schools The American school system, which AeA researchers charge is failing to provide strong science and math education to students, is largely to blame for lost jobs, according to the AeA’s report, “Offshore Outsourcing in an Increasingly Competitive and Rapidly Changing World.” Good in that there’s more demand for me,…Continue Reading…