| New on Webware.com |  | Google Docs gets file storage: Is this the GDrive?
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Google this week made a big move with its Docs service, when it opened it up to all types of file uploads. This includes photos, movies, music, and ZIP archives, all of which can now be stored on Google's servers. Google also dramatically increased the size of individual uploads to 250MB. This is 10 times the size of what's allowed as an attachment in the company's Web mail service Gmail. Read more |  | Finally! Comment on Facebook through e-mail
Posted by Caroline McCarthy
A small but notable development at Facebook means that if you're replying to a comment posted on your profile, you can now do so through regular e-mail. So, basically, if someone comments on something you've posted to Facebook, you can respond and add an additional comment by replying to the e-mail notification that alerted you to it in the first place. Read more | | Firefox 3.6 due this month; next comes 'Lorentz'
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Mozilla hopes to release the final version of Firefox 3.6 later this month and a stability-improving update code-named Lorentz by March as part of a revised updating strategy. Read more | | Way cool: Google Mobile App e-mail search for BlackBerry
Posted by Jessica Dolcourt
This week Google updated its mobile app for Android phones. Now the app will search through your phone's e-mail and address book--in addition to the Web--when you type or speak a name into the search bar. What's more, the e-mail address or phone contact appears in the app's search suggestions after you type (denoted by a tiny icon). Read more | | Beta-testing the video ad-supported Free All Music
Posted by Matt Rosoff
Free All Music, whose unusual business model is to show users a short video advertisement in exchange for letting them download an unrestricted MP3 file, began private beta testing of the service last month. The process of watching ads, then downloading MP3s, is surprisingly painless... Read more | | | | This week in e-mail news | | | Lightning officially returns to Thunderbird 3
Posted by Seth Rosenblatt
One of the biggest disappointments of Mozilla e-mail client Thunderbird 3 was that plans to bake in the calendaring extension Lightning were abandoned. When Thunderbird 3 debuted, users got a bit of a shock: Lightning wasn't compatible with the upgrade. Although there was a work-around through the Lightning nightly updates, the official build wasn't going to graduate. Lightning 1.0 beta 1 fixes that, and also introduces to stable build users features that have been available in the nightly for some time. Read more | | Yahoo sells Zimbra to VMware
Posted by Tom Krazit
Yahoo has finally offloaded its open-source enterprise e-mail division, Zimbra, to VMware. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the sales price is believed to be far less than the $350 million Yahoo paid for the company in September 2007 Read more |
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