I read an interview with Marissa Mayer, Product Manager for Google yesterday that proved my theory that most startup companies don’t know just how big they could be, and that it takes a lot of luck to make it to the top. I can’t tell you how many companies I’ve met [...]

This time last year personal homepages were all the rage, with both big players like Google, MSN and Yahoo! and also small players like netvibes and pageflakes all frantically developing services.
However, it’s rare these days to see any interesting stories break about personal homepages. I wonder, is this because RSS readers have stolen their [...]

Google has lost the right to use the ‘Gmail’ name in Europe, and will probably have to resort to using ‘Google Mail’ to market its webmail service.
The name has been owned for over six years by a German entrepreneur that has founded a service called GMail, a same day mail delivery service, so I think [...]

I think the reason the amount of spam getting through my blog filters has increased, is because spammers have stepped up their efforts over the last couple of days.
I deliberately don’t clean out my Google Mail spam folder so that I can see a rolling number for the number of spam messages I received over [...]

Gmail does an amazing job of removing spam. Â I deliberately don’t empty my spam folder as I like to see how many spam messages I get a month - over the last 30 days I’ve received 17,512 spam emails.
Unfortunately, recently Gmail has been struggling to remove image spam where spammers embed the spam [...]