News.com reports that Google's email service called Gmail is now open to everyone -- an invitation is no longer needed. A BBC news story has a couple interesting facts. They say Gmail is Google Mail in some countries including the UK. They also note that the opening of Gmail to everyone should stop people from selling Gmail accounts -- which apparently has been happening somewhere.
Known as Gmail in most countries, it had to change its name to Google Mail in the UK and Germany due to trademark disputes.
A by-product of moving from the invitation only system should bring to an end a current spate of people making money by selling Gmail addresses.
Gmail was already freely available in US and a few other countries.
Google Operating System says Google's definition of the world is limited.
Although Google posted in Gmail's help that "anyone in the world is now welcome to create a Gmail account at mail.google.com/mail/signup", Google's definition of the world was pretty limited.
Gmail is now a public beta in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Brazil, Australia, Russia and Japan, according to BBC. If you live in one of those places, you can go to Gmail.com, and look for "Sign up for Gmail" or you can visit this page to create an account.
So, Gmail (or Google Mail) is now a public beta in many countries but not all.
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