Google’s GMail service may be getting closer to an official launch, as within the last week or so there has been a number of exising users discussing on message boards and forums that they have been given a block of 50 invites for new users.
Google’s web-based email service has been sought after by some as an alternative online file storage service. So far they have been the web-based email service to offer the largest amount of storage, well in excess of other web-based email systems, of 1 Gb.