On Wednesday, Google added a new social messaging service, Google Buzz, to its Gmail web-based email service.
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Google is taking on internet telephone companies like Skype by allowing users to call from its free web-based email service.
Research by Comscore suggests US-based 12- to 17-year-olds spent 30% less time using web-based email between November 2010 and the same month this year.
"Web-based email could be a great platform for social applications, " says Shervin Pishevar, executive chairman of Social Gaming Network, a social games developer, who sees more similarities between social networking incumbents like Facebook and Twitter with Google Buzz than just the sharing of statuses, links and other media.
Bhatia had been working for Apple as a hardware engineer after graduating from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, when he and Apple colleague Jack Smith hit upon the concept of web-based email out of frustration at being unable to check their company email away from the office.
The Manhattan Virtual Classroom is a web-based course management system that includes a variety of discussion groups, live chat, areas for the teacher to post the syllabus and other handouts and notices, a module for organizing online assignments, a grades module, a surveys module, and a unique, web-based email system open only to students in the class.
The Livingston-based web and email filtering company, Bloxx, has been named as the fastest growing in Scotland.
In December, the company's U.S.-based Web-search, sports, finance and email sites all had 12% to 25% fewer unique visitors compared with a year earlier, according to comScore Inc.
So Al and Jim built a cloud-based application that centralized the myriad tools that salespeople use, such as email, CRM systems, web conferences, PowerPoint decks, videos, PDFs and so on.
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