Google has announced that it is dropping seven more products in an effort to simplify its range of services. The out-of-season "spring clean" brings an end to services including Google Wave, Knol and Google Gears. It is the third time that the US firm has announced a cull of several of its products at the same time after they had failed to take off.
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An application that runs on a personal computer or workstation and enables you to send, receive and organize e-mail. It's called a client because e-mail systems are based on a client-server architecture. Mail is sent from many clients to a central server, which re-routes the mail to its intended destination. Also see Why E-Mails Bounce in the Did You Know section of Webopedia.
Governments around the world made nearly 21,000 requests for access to Google data in the first six months of this year, according to the search engine.
Seems interesting but could also be a concern in privacy...