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http://slashdot.org/articles/05/10/19/1159227.shtml?tid=217

Now that I've done my good deed for the day, in other news, Firefox has reached it's 100000000th download recently.
20.10.05 00:01
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Well, looks like so long for Gmail. and Hello to Google Mail :P

Thanx for the info Glenn

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They could have given it a diffrent stupid sounding name like "goomail" or "mailG-G-G-GUNIT!"

I don't like the name "googlemail" :(

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Hopefully the company they're disputing the name with, who has a stockmarket value of just £3.2 million, can be settled with a nice big sum of money from the giant that is google, worth £31.1 billion.

It'd be very silly to disagree on the sum of money when users like the short "@gmail.com" and have gotten used to calling it GMail.

It's not just England, there's a dispute in Germany too.

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I don't really see how any other company would gain anything by trying to hang onto the GMail name, they might as well just run with a nice settlement payment.

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and existing accounts will be able to use either domain for now.


Thank god for that. I would hate to have to use "@googlemail.com"

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I don't see why they would have to change the @gmail bit since that is already registered to them, but the name of the mail will change, which I'm not really bothered with so long as my email address doesn't change.

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I'm not really bothered with so long as my email address doesn't change.


I hear that, I've had this email for ages and I wanna keep it that way.

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They could have given it a diffrent stupid sounding name like "goomail" or "mailG-G-G-GUNIT!"

I don't like the name "googlemail" :(


It's only for the Uk gmail users. You don't apply. Unless I'm misunderstanding something here.
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I don't really see how any other company would gain anything by trying to hang onto the GMail name, they might as well just run with a nice settlement payment.


The ability to totally screw Google over perhaps?

Plus, if Google really wanted to take them to court, there's always the possibility that the small company will win.
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London-based Independent International Investment Research says it started using the Gmail name for a web-mail application two years before Google.
Which is probably true and the reason why they will win this dispute.

I dont like the name googlemail. The London-based Independant International Investment Research....LIIIR can go to hell. Who uses it anyway?
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I would imagine people that are members of the Independant International Investement Research Association...
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And who do you know that are members of the Independant International Investment Research Association?
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And who do you know that are members of the Independant International Investment Research Association?


People who are interested in Investing in Research Independently and Internationally.
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