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The Past Google's email service Gmail was launched to the public five years ago this week. Back then, the service turned the web email industry on its ear by offering an entire gigabyte of storage to users who were lucky enough to receive an invite. Small potatoes now, but that was a nice chunk of storage from an email service back then.For some of us, it was also a chance to get a really good address with our real names in them. I chose a simple first name/last name approach. It had a nice ring to it after previous addresses with other services that I had to explain to people who still found them hard to remember. All of the good ones had already been taken at that point on all the other big-name services.The PresentGmail has grown by leaps and bounds since that time, and has gone through a ton of changes, and somehow still sits in beta. Who knows if that will ever change? I read an Ars Technica interview with Gmail's product manager Todd Jackson the other day in which he discuss

THERE'S a hitch in Google's plan to digitise the world's books and make them searchable online: scanning them is taking too long. That's because character recognition software needs a neat 2D image o...

Online-Discount-Pharmacy1.com ) The health industry is taking a huge stride forward by allowing U.S licensed pharmacies to sell certain types of medication on the Internet. Of course, a consumer can o...

If Google isn't in talks to buy Twitter, it should be. Specifically, it should offer the company $1 billion, cash. Why? Five reasons: Google needs a huge new growth engine and Twitter might just fit the bill. The current search product cycle is coming to

US Internet giant Google is in negotiations to acquire micro-blogging sensation Twitter for over US$250 million, technology blog TechCrunch reported yesterday. Citing two sources familiar with the matter, TechCrunch said Google would be making an offer