Archive for the ‘Applications’ Category

The grapevine is abuzz with rumors that Facebook will be launching its own webmail to compete directly with GMail and Yahoo Mail.

“Facebook has the world’s most popular photos product, the most popular events product, and soon will have a very popular local deals product as well. It can tweak the design of its webmail client to display content from each of these in a seamless fashion,” said TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid.

“And there’s also the social element: Facebook knows who your friends are and how closely you’re connected to them; it can probably do a pretty good job figuring out which personal emails you want to read most and prioritize them accordingly,” he added.

Also out this week is Apple iOS 4.2 which improves Wifi, video and cross Apple platform consistency.