Saturday, 24 March 2007

Define "gmail"

We gave our kids (5 and 2.5) toy plastic cell phones. They were thrilled. Tyler told Andrew he was going to send a gmail to his phone. He then patiently explained that a gmail is an email except it goes to a phone instead of a computer.

I was amused at his definition but even more amused because while at a different software company I actually worked on a product feature called Intellishrink (research and product) that routed email to cell phones, shoehorning them to fit into the smallest number of SMS packets.

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