Gmail username availability

Gmail is the name of the email service powered by the internet giant Google. It was started in the year 2004, but at that time, it was in its beta version only and was only available via invites. Even then, the craze for obtaining it had gone berserk. After three years, the company made the service free for all, though it continued to be in its beta version. The final version as we see it today was ultimately launched in the year 2009. Since then, Google has made certain changes to Gmail, including its appearance, yet the level of service and its features remain just the same. With time Google integrated its email service with its other services as well as acquisitions too. This made the popularity of Gmail soar to even greater heights, and by the year 2012, Gmail had become a global leader in terms of number of users of its services, overtaking the previous leader Hotmail, an email service powered by another computing giant, Microsoft. As of 2012, Gmail had more than 425 milli...

Lately, Gmail username availability - including the network of the International Monetary Fund, the biggest piggy bank of them all. Coincidentally, there was the news that both Facebook and Google's Gmail have beefed up their security with two-factor authentication. They both now have optional mechanisms for making sure that your login process is more secure. Two-factor authentication is called that for a reason: you need more than type in your username and password, something that you have on your person that isn't easily known to anyone else (like your mother's maiden name or birth date). Both sites make use of texting you a short string of numbers to your cell phone as part of the login process: once you set this up, as long as you have your phone nearby (and who doesn't?), you can be sure that no one else can login into your account. Older forms of two-factor authentication used small key fobs that had a button: when you pressed the button you got a code numb...