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Title: Facebook expected to launch 'Gmail killer'
Post by: elemis on November 15, 2010, 09:55:51 am
Facebook is expected to launch a new messaging system seen as a challenge to Google's Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail.

The giant social network - which boasts more than 500 million users worldwide - will host a special event in San Francisco on Monday.

Unconfirmed reports suggest Facebook could announce its own e-mail address - @facebook.com - or even a fully-fledged web-based e-mail system.

Google-Facebook rivalry has increased recently amid a series of disputes.

Google has banned Facebook from importing its users' e-mail contacts, a move it says it made because Facebook refused to allow the export of contact and friend data from within user profiles.

In reply, Facebook enabled a workaround that let users save their Google contacts to their computers before importing them into Facebook.

Read the full article here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11743524 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11743524)
Title: Re: Facebook expected to launch 'Gmail killer'
Post by: Alpha on November 15, 2010, 11:29:28 am
I will still remain faithful to Yahoo. ::)
Title: Re: Facebook expected to launch 'Gmail killer'
Post by: elemis on November 15, 2010, 11:48:59 am
Quote from: ~Alpha on November 15, 2010, 11:29:28 am
I will still remain faithful to Yahoo. ::)

And I to Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo :P
Title: Re: Facebook expected to launch 'Gmail killer'
Post by: Alpha on November 15, 2010, 11:54:14 am
Quote from: Ari Ben Canaan on November 15, 2010, 11:48:59 am
And I to Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo :P

What faithfulness!  :P

Tri-party.  ::)
Title: Re: Facebook expected to launch 'Gmail killer'
Post by: elemis on November 15, 2010, 12:03:20 pm
Quote from: ~Alpha on November 15, 2010, 11:54:14 am
What faithfulness!  :P

Tri-party.  ::)

I love them all equally ::)
Title: Re: Facebook expected to launch 'Gmail killer'
Post by: Arthur Bon Zavi on November 15, 2010, 01:23:40 pm
Quote from: Ari Ben Canaan on November 15, 2010, 11:48:59 am
And I to Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo :P

LOL. Me too, and more ! :D
Title: Re: Facebook expected to launch 'Gmail killer'
Post by: Master_Key on November 15, 2010, 01:39:45 pm
Me to Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook, and many more.
Title: Re: Facebook expected to launch 'Gmail killer'
Post by: astarmathsandphysics on November 15, 2010, 03:50:51 pm
Dont see fb winning this one
Title: Re: Facebook expected to launch 'Gmail killer'
Post by: Alpha on November 16, 2010, 02:58:45 am
Don't wish it to either.

I hate Facebook. It's always having Tae kwon do with notifications against my Yahoo. :'(
Title: Re: Facebook expected to launch 'Gmail killer'
Post by: sabbath_92 on November 16, 2010, 11:45:17 am
Yah, only facebook is blocked at my college and most workplaces ::)


"Mr Zuckerberg said it would bring together four separate messaging types - SMS, Instant Messaging, e-mail and chat."

What rubbish. This is nothing smartphones haven't been doing for years.