Google bans email sale
Google’s trial release of Gmail has sparked a trade in email addresses. The accounts were originally issued by invitation only, but now about 2000 addresses, including bush04@gmail.com and kerry04@gmail.com, are up for auction on eBay. Google has now banned the sale of its email addresses for “unauthorized commercial purposes”.
Fastest route
A machine that directs internet traffic has been named the world’s fastest by Guinness World Records. The Cisco Systems CRS-1 router pushes data at the rate of 92 trillion bits per second. The entire printed contents of the US Library of Congress could…
