Google is bowing to the notion that some people use Gmail’s labels like traditional e-mail folders, and will now let them to drag messages “into” labels while organizing mail.
At the search giant’s e-mail security unit, globally distributed automated systems and Zero-Hour software keep spam and viruses out of inboxes.
Spam made up more than 90 percent of all e-mail last month, with networks of zombie PCs producing the vast majority of such messages, MessageLabs says.
Elinor Mills talks about how Google’s e-mail security service unit handles as many as 3 billion message each day; Usenet.com ruling, a ‘whittling down’ of Betamax defense; and Bing’s first month produces small share gain for Microsoft.