Two years ago this Sunday, Google introduced two gigabytes of email storage for Gmail, with the amount of storage ticking up slowly, what they called their “Infinity + 1″ system. The idea was that since the counter went up continuously, you really had near-infinite storage. It was a great idea, except for one thing: Infinity + 1 implies better than inifinity, but it’s not.
See, Yahoo has announced that, as of this May, Yahoo

In honor of Valentine’s day: e-mail marketing is part of a love triangle. Perhaps that might more accurately be described as a love-hate triangle.
Marketers remain hopelessly devoted to the medium. E-mail marketing was chosen as the #1 most important advertising media in 2007 according to an informal survey of 1500 marketing professionals conducted by Datran Media

How comfortable do you feel, sending confidential information via email? I know that I try only to ever send my bank account details and SSN to the very highest of Nigerian princes, just in case the email goes astray.
Well, according to a small survey of attendees of the ISPA’s annual Parliamentary Advisory Forum, they share your fears in sending sensitive emails.
Fear of high-profile security scares (27 per cent), a lack of adequate security offerings from ISPs (24 per cent) and the inability to guarantee sender/recipient ID (33 per cent) were cited as today’s top three obstacles to mass user adoption of email for confidential communications.

However, hope is on the horizon, with many believing email will become more secure in the future.
…47 per cent of industry representatives in attendance expected email to surpass traditional forms of confidential communications (recorded mail, courier etc) by 2009

I just noticed that Gmail’s storage meter is increasing again, just like it used to:

Just go to Gmail.com (log out of your Gmail account) to see it moving. Anyone want to figure out if it is increasing at the same rate as before (.33 megabytes a day)? The source code notes this:
var CP = [
[ 1167638400000, 2800 ],
[ 1175414400000, 2835 ]
];

Gmail added a new feature that lets Google’s mail site retrieve email from up to five additional email accounts in a single Gmail account. So long as your other email has POP access (like your work email, but not always your Hotmail), you can dump it all into Gmail, letting you manage all your email accounts from one place