Tech: Gmail; Sun/MS settle; game dev. costs

Afternoon tech news: Gmail, based on massive storage and search, represents a radical new approach to free e-mail, but the service raises privacy concerns; Microsoft will pay Sun Microsystems a total of $1.6 billion to settle a long-standing set of legal disputes, the companies announced Friday; for years, video game companies have envied Hollywood moviemakers for their stars, special effects and mass-market appeal -- but now they are learning that these things can come at a high price.

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porieux

not worth it

04/02, 3:43pm, EST

These 'blockbuster' game productions are more expensive and DO NOT produce better games. The industry may be ready to crash again...

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issandr

Google's GMail

04/03, 2:53pm, EST

This new GMail service does not support Safari -- just Netscape and Mozilla on the Mac. I wonder why.

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sambira

Gmail

04/04, 11:39am, EDT

If anyone is worried about security issues, don't use the service.

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LouZer

Privacy

04/04, 9:41pm, EDT

Why privacy is a big deal is beyond me, as they are upfront on what they plan on doing (scanning email to match to ad providers). If they were doing this secretly, that'd be different. But if you're told, then, as a previous poster said, you know the situation and can decide to use it or not.

There's also a discussion about the concern that keeping email for a long time could be a privacy or security concern as they could be supphoenad (yeah, I know its spelled wrong, I don't care!) and such. Well, duh! Same is true with any mail. If you're concerned an email will bring you ruin in the future, delete the stupid thing.

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