19-10-2005, 01:00 PM
Google's path to world domination took a turn for the worse yesterday with news that a small British company has already got the trademark for Gmail and has been using it in 80 countries.
The Market Age, which supplies online financial analysis tools, claims its subsidiary ProNet Analytics has been using Gmail as the brand for its email service since the middle of 2002 and is active in 80 countries, according to the Financial Times.
The company has contacted the US Patent Office to register its interest in the trademark.
Market Age shares, traded on AIM, doubled on the news. Lawyers across the world rubbed their hands in glee.
A search on Google (didn't they do this?) shows another Gmail, which claims to have been operating since 1999 out of California from http://www.usegmail.com. There is at least one other email service called Gmail from a company called Javeo which you can find at http://www.gmail.net
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Before Google's Gmail there was Gmail.net — a web-based email solution rich in graphical capability and dynamic look-and-feel.
In 2002 two colleagues got together and started the Javeo Corporation. Their goal was to build a better mouse trap — OK, better web-based email. They purchased the domain gmail.net and pursued the purchase of other gmail domains. The "G" in gmail.net stood for graphical, as in graphical email. The graphical look-and-feel was governed by such technologies as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and XML-RPC. And, as we all know today, by using these technologies the web interface can be made to look and feel more like a desktop application — i.e., a better mouse trap.
Today you will hear the term, AJAX, when people describe Gmail-like interactive web-based applications. AJAX simply stands for, asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Using AJAX, features such as drag and Drop can be implemented. In fact, the initial version of Gmail.net perfected the ability to allow users to drag images directly in to their email message — a feature previously only seen in desktop email clients.
Before Google's Gmail, Gmail.net was used by the Javeo Corporation as one of its Internet email identities. The Javeo Corporation has no relationship whatsoever with Google Inc. and has since started using javeo.com as its primary email identity.
If you would like to take Javeo for a quick spin, just Sign-in* using demo as the account name with pwd01 as the password. source http://www.gmail.net/
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Quite incredible
The Market Age, which supplies online financial analysis tools, claims its subsidiary ProNet Analytics has been using Gmail as the brand for its email service since the middle of 2002 and is active in 80 countries, according to the Financial Times.
The company has contacted the US Patent Office to register its interest in the trademark.
Market Age shares, traded on AIM, doubled on the news. Lawyers across the world rubbed their hands in glee.
A search on Google (didn't they do this?) shows another Gmail, which claims to have been operating since 1999 out of California from http://www.usegmail.com. There is at least one other email service called Gmail from a company called Javeo which you can find at http://www.gmail.net
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Before Google's Gmail there was Gmail.net — a web-based email solution rich in graphical capability and dynamic look-and-feel.
In 2002 two colleagues got together and started the Javeo Corporation. Their goal was to build a better mouse trap — OK, better web-based email. They purchased the domain gmail.net and pursued the purchase of other gmail domains. The "G" in gmail.net stood for graphical, as in graphical email. The graphical look-and-feel was governed by such technologies as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and XML-RPC. And, as we all know today, by using these technologies the web interface can be made to look and feel more like a desktop application — i.e., a better mouse trap.
Today you will hear the term, AJAX, when people describe Gmail-like interactive web-based applications. AJAX simply stands for, asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Using AJAX, features such as drag and Drop can be implemented. In fact, the initial version of Gmail.net perfected the ability to allow users to drag images directly in to their email message — a feature previously only seen in desktop email clients.
Before Google's Gmail, Gmail.net was used by the Javeo Corporation as one of its Internet email identities. The Javeo Corporation has no relationship whatsoever with Google Inc. and has since started using javeo.com as its primary email identity.
If you would like to take Javeo for a quick spin, just Sign-in* using demo as the account name with pwd01 as the password. source http://www.gmail.net/
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Quite incredible
