Google ready to organise your life
Google challenges Yahoo and Microsoft --
unveiling a free online calendar service.
Google has launched its latest salvo against rivals such as Yahoo and Microsoft, unveiling a free online calendar service.
The web calendar lets people to store appointments, receive reminders and share schedules with others. It is tied in to Google’s e-mail service, Gmail, automatically offering to add the date information in a message to the calendar.
Google Calendar is part of its expansion into new areas, pitting the search giant in direct competition against Yahoo.
Yahoo has offered a calendar service since 1998 and in October bought the event planning site, Upcoming.org. Yahoo is currently the most popular web calendar service in the US.
If you have a gmail or other Google service, you can log into Calendar here.
Posted: Thu - April 13, 2006 at 07:46 AM