{"id":411,"date":"2004-11-10T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/11\/gmail_offers_free_pop_access\/"},"modified":"2004-11-10T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T19:54:00","slug":"gmail_offers_free_pop_access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/10\/gmail_offers_free_pop_access\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail Offers Free POP Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice! Yahoo and Microsoft must be real sick of Google right about now. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGoogle on Wednesday threw another bone to customers of Gmail, its free Web-based e-mail service. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company now allows people to download e-mail from any third-party account or forward their Gmail for free, or what&#8217;s called POP (Post Office Protocol) access. Using the feature, people can send Gmail e-mail to mobile devices, such as a Blackberry, or to Microsoft Outlook. The company, whose offer of 1 gigabyte of mail storage prompted rivals to follow suit with added storage, said it does not have any plans to charge for either feature.<\/p>\n<p>Rivals including Yahoo and Microsoft charge for similar POP access. Yahoo Mail, for example, collects $19.95 for POP e-mail forwarding, among other premium features. It does not charge for POP downloading to Yahoo Mail.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Gmail offers free POPs\/2110-1038_3-5446901.html\">via CNET<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice! Yahoo and Microsoft must be real sick of Google right about now. \ud83d\ude42 Google on Wednesday threw another bone to customers of Gmail, its free Web-based e-mail service. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company now allows people to download e-mail from any third-party account or forward their Gmail for free, or what&#8217;s called POP (Post&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/10\/gmail_offers_free_pop_access\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gmail Offers Free POP Access<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":316,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/25\/yahoo_swings_back_at_googles_gmail\/","url_meta":{"origin":411,"position":0},"title":"Yahoo! Swings Back at Google&#8217;s GMail","date":"April 25, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Yahoo has changed their e-mail policies so that spam now longer counts as part of a user's allotted storage space...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Internet&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":237,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/01\/yahoo_mail_spam_explosion\/","url_meta":{"origin":411,"position":1},"title":"Yahoo! Mail Spam Explosion","date":"November 1, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Is it just me or is everybody else getting bombarded with spam on their Yahoo! Mail accounts? It seems like ever since they announced their 'new spam measures' the spam has at least doubled. I'm now getting about 200 spams a day. Every time I go into my account I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Internet&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/29\/googles_pretty_shrewd\/","url_meta":{"origin":411,"position":2},"title":"Google&#8217;s Pretty Shrewd","date":"June 29, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Google's starting to remind me of the megalomaniac Brain, from Pinky and the Brain. They're recently made a new push into the advertising game with their AdSense program: Google AdSense is for web publishers who want to make more revenue from advertising on their site while maintaining editorial quality. AdSense\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Internet&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":403,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/yahoo_buys_stata_labs_going_after_gmail\/","url_meta":{"origin":411,"position":3},"title":"Yahoo Buys Stata Labs&#8230; Going After GMail?","date":"October 21, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"The news of Yahoo buying Stata Labs, the makers of Bloomba, is very interesting indeed. It certainly seems like they're buying their technology expertise in an attempt to \"get with\" Google's GMail and their desktop toolbar. Here's the news: Dear Stata Labs Customer, We thank you for your support of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Business&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/google_hateration\/","url_meta":{"origin":411,"position":4},"title":"Google &#8216;Hateration&#8217;","date":"June 25, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Salon has a good article about the growing backlash against Google. It includes a discussion about how bloggers can manipulate Google's results. :-o As well as some coming threats to their throne from Microsoft and Yahoo!\/Inktomi. Looks like things may get dicey for Google just as they're likely to do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":276,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/06\/whats_on_my_treo_600\/","url_meta":{"origin":411,"position":5},"title":"What&#8217;s on My Treo 600","date":"February 6, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I've now had my Treo 600 working for about a month and I'm really enjoying it. It's nice to be able to call, e-mail, IM, SMS, and browse the web from one device. My number port still isn't right, as some calls still ring on my land line, but that's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Shop at Amazon.com","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rcm-images.amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/rcm\/468x336.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}