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New free Webmail service – GMX.com

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There’s a new kid on the Webmail block – GMX.com. GMX Internet Services, Inc. claims to have over 10 million Internet mail accounts, and has attracted 100,000 users in the beta testing of their new webmail service. Built with a lot of AJAX features, the GMX interface resembles Outlook and Hotmail more than Gmail or even Yahoo Mail, and sports 5GB of storage.

Here are my initial thoughts where I compare GMX mainly to Gmail as that’s my primary webmail client.
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kwiry adds new features: Facebook app, e-mail, photos, more

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Remember kwiry, the text-to-webpage service that we blogged about late last year? Well, they’ve been hard at work building and rolling out new extensions to their basic service.

For starters, the kwiry Facebook application lets you change the privacy of your kwirys and manage your kwirys without leaving FB.

Now you can send photos to your kwiry account from your camera phone by e-mailing [email protected], and then you can use your mobile phone to view those photos and the rest of your kwirys at m.kwiry.com.

If you want to stay abreast of kwiry news, subscribe to their blog.

25% of the planet online in 2012

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Perhaps you’re thinking that # should be higher, but then again, this
isn’t really surprising, is it? After all, 2012 is only a few years
away, and even in the country of the Internet’s birth (the US), uptake is less
than 75%.

Appropriately enough, the highest growth will be in high economic growth/’emerging’ countries like China, Russia, India and Brazil (BRIC).

Now if only we could get even 0.1% of those 1.8 billion people to come visit our sites. 😉

20% of Americans have never used e-mail

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According to a recent survey, 1 in 5 Americans have never sent an e-mail and 20 million households are without Internet access. This is not a surprising statistic to me. It was only about 2 years ago that the stat on businesses that had an Internet presence was estimated at less than 1 in 10. That may seem staggering but think about how many small businesses there are that have been operating just fine prior to the explosion of the Internet.

Now this does not mean that all of these users are luddites or simply too poor to afford a computer and/or Internet access. Age is a large factor. I can think of my Mom who is in her 60s and who I’ve just convinced to use e-mail and instant messenger! But I would never consider my parents’ household behind the times. They have computers, cell phones, LCD TVs and the usual trappings of modern society.

All things considered, the 20% figure isn’t terrible, but there’s no question with the shift in the economy to the Internet and online business that the outliers need to get moved over. It may just take some time though as you can only ‘persuade’ so many people.

Sprint’s WiMax testing done; ready for rollout

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Rollout still won’t happen until later this year, which really means late this year if not next, as no dates have been announced. Anyway, Sprint who has been working with Samsung on this say it’s ready.

There’s a collection of companies (Clearwire, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks) that will bear the brunt of the cost of getting WiMax out to over 120 million customers by the end of 2010. That’s just a year and a half. I can’t wait.

Cradlepoint PHS300: Portable WiFi Router connects via Cell Phone conn

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Fantastic. Now you can not only have an Internet connection by way of your cell phone’s data connection (tethered to your laptop), but you can also share it to create your very own WiFi hotspot! The Cradlepoint Personal Hotspot 300 is a fully featured WiFi router that uses your mobile phone’s data connection as its conn to the Net.

While it includes an AC adapter, its internal battery can be charged up for full portability. Wherever you want to work, now you can. No longer do you have to find some coffee shop and pay them $10 to get online.

The PHS300 support 802.11b/g computers, and its WiFi router includes a full set of the security and access controls that you’ve come to expect in popular home-based broadband routers.

Gimme!
More info from the manufacturer
Price: $149.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Qwest rolls out 12 and 20 Mbps DSL service

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It took a while, but now DSL is starting to compete with cable modem service on speed, as Qwest announces that they’ll be offering 12 and 20 Mbps DSL service in 23 markets. When you call up, just ask for Qwest Titanium, or Qwest Quantum, as the services will be dubbed.

Sorry, but will I know you’re drooling over this, you’ll have to wait closer to the end of the year if not early 2009, and you’ll need to be prepared to shell out $65/mo for the 12Mbps and $100/mo for 20. Hmm… perhaps cable may still win this speed war.

U of Chicago Law School bans Internet Access

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In the ‘really?’ department, the University of Chicago’s Law School has decided to block Internet access in classrooms, in what appears to be the first such school-mandated restriction.

While I understand restricting high-school students and to a much smaller degree college students, but law school students? Really? Aren’t they adults who should decide for themselves whether or not they pay attention in class? How about if they decided to just miss class altogether? Wouldn’t that amount to the same thing?

As long as they’re not making a lot of noise, I don’t see the problem, apart from annoying some uptight profs. I wish I had an Internet-connected laptop when I went to classes. I can see it being a valuable tool to help with learning the subject matter at hand. The fact of the matter is that you can only lead a horse to water; the rest is up to them. Just my $0.02.

via Slashdot

Doctorow not taking ISP’s service change lying down

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Good on Cory Doctorow. His ISP, Virgin Media, has just announced that they are pretty much ignoring Net Neutrality and will give 2nd-class priority (or worse) to traffic from websites and services that don’t pay them a premium.

Doctorow says that as far as he’s concerned, they’ve just announced that they’re violating the agreement, and he’s canceling his service. We agree. No doubt this is not the last we’ve heard about this or on the subject of Net Neutrality.

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