Gmail

Google Inc. announces a beta version of Google Apps for Your Domain. The new Web services available starting today include Gmail with 2 gigabytes of storage, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Page Creator More...

services than when using the e-mail program with your browser and being connected to your own Internet access provider.

MSN's Hotmail, Google's Gmail and Yahoo! Mail are the most popular provides of freemail. Freemail is a service that provides free e-mail delivery to anyone in exchange for exposure to advertising on the site where you request your e-mail and, in some More...

components, connecting relatively inexpensive processors in parallel to create an immensely powerful, scalable system. Google Apps, Maps and Gmail are all based in the cloud. Other companies have already created Web-based operating systems that collect online applications into Flash-based graphic user interfaces (GUIs), often using a look and feel More...

to overcome them.

Why Ajax Is Harder Than It Looks

Ajax powers some of the most interesting and innovative services on the Internet, including Gmail, Google Local (formerly Google Maps) and other Google services, as well as the A9 search engine.

Ajax-powered services look and function much like straightforward desktop applications so at first glance it may seem as More...

to expect. Look at the Web 2.0 applications that are out there. That's really at the heart of the Cloud phenomenon. Look at YouTube and MySpace and Gmail. It's not just that they have lots of users coming on to these sites. It's also that these sites are harboring huge amounts of information. For a company to be able to make use of that kind of information for customer More...