There is a growing amount of confusion surrounding Google's announcement that it is going to introduce a new service called gmail. It's seemingly outlandish claims of providing 1GB of storage space for each user for free, as well as the fact that it has introduced this service on April 1st, have split Journalists who are struggling to decide if it's one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of April Fool's day or simply that Google picked a terrible date to announce a radical new departure from it's current business.
The move will be seen (even if it's not true) as a direct response to Yahoo!'s recent move into search engine technology, although questions may be asked about the the effect of such a hoax on its competitors if this turns out to be an April Fools joke.
I'm afraid we at IT Vibe can shed no light on the announcement other than to say if we were planning to announce a new service, which was so radically different to our current business, we wouldn't have picked today to do it.