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Reverend
October 13th, 2007, 21:10 PM
People using Google's Gmail service are sucking up storage space faster than the company can add it.

Google said on Friday it is speeding up the rate at which it adds storage space for its Gmail Web-based e-mail service due to the increased storage requirements for attachments such as photos.

"A few of you are using Gmail so much that you're running out of space, so to make good on our prom...

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Conan
October 14th, 2007, 00:50 AM
They better! They're lagging behind Yahoo's unlimited storage which I find really useful for work! :thumbup:

cash_site
December 17th, 2007, 05:05 AM
They better! They're lagging behind Yahoo's unlimited storage which I find really useful for work! :thumbup:

Really? How do you send so much data? I still would have thought that Internet connection speeds would be the limit factor for online storage... i.e. time to upload, and then time to download?! For work, couldn't you simply use Flash Drive?

Conan
December 18th, 2007, 03:03 AM
Really? How do you send so much data? I still would have thought that Internet connection speeds would be the limit factor for online storage... i.e. time to upload, and then time to download?! For work, couldn't you simply use Flash Drive?

Since I'm now in the marketing department of Gold's I send and receive a lot of high resolution pictures of our local celebrities which we frequently use for our ads. Everything is stored in my Yahoo mail.

cash_site
December 19th, 2007, 00:42 AM
Wow, that's pretty good Conan - any famous 'stars' that we might know of?

Conan
December 19th, 2007, 12:27 PM
Wow, that's pretty good Conan - any famous 'stars' that we might know of?

You know of any Filipino celebrities? Will post some of them when I get home, I'm on vacation and just using the wi-fi connection of the hotel which isn't very fast.

cash_site
December 20th, 2007, 00:01 AM
You know of any Filipino celebrities? Will post some of them when I get home, I'm on vacation and just using the wi-fi connection of the hotel which isn't very fast.

LOL, don't we all know the 'Celebrities' ;)

Add the pics to the Large thread.. hehe, nice pun!

Hope your vacation is fun! Happy holidays.

Back on topic, Isn't gmail on an ever increasing process anyway? Or do they mean to make it unlimited storage from the outset?