Monday, October 13, 2008

Google Competitor Uses Google Tech To Take Email Offline

Cloud service provider Zoho announced that its e-mail service is exiting private beta today and is now publicly available. Interestingly, Zoho uses Google own Gears technology to take Zoho Mail offline.
Zoho has been providing cloud-based productivity tools for quite some time, and, like Google, lets people access applications such as document creators and spreadsheets from any Web-enabled PC. Zoho had been holding back on offering a real competitor to Google's GMail, however.
Today, that changes. Zoho Mail debuted, and Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist, said, "Zoho Mail is an important application for Zoho as it plays a pivotal role in the evolution of our productivity, collaboration, and business applications. For an application like Mail, offline and mobile support are key. We wanted to offer these features right out of the gate."
Zoho Mail offers hierarchical folders and labels, serial and conversational e-mail listings, unlimited storage, Zoho chat, Zoho productivity suite, and Zoho Business.
Source : Information Week