This is one of two Google rumors that surfaced over the weekend. The other one is here.
Google has a weakness when it comes to keeping new products a secret. According to Garett Rogers, Google uses volunteers to do much of its foreign translation–they provide them when a sentence or two and the volunteers provide the translation. While Google gets all of their translation needs fullfilled for less than minimum-wage, it can make it hard to keep new products a secret.
Rogers first provided us with a screenshot that suggests a new interface for Gmail might be forthcoming.
Next, Rogers did some additional digging and found more translation screenshots that suggest one of Gmail’s new features will be the much-desired “offline” capability.
Note: Google Gears is the tool that currently allows you to view your RSS Feeds offline.
Other new features include account use logging–so you can confirm who used your account and when.
As a Google Apps user, I’m glad to see Google might soon offer an offline version of Gmail. It’s interesting to note that this comes just days after Yahoo announced their acquisition of Zimbra and Mozilla revealed their plans for Thunderbird. It seems Google becomes highly motivated whenever there’s news from a competitor’s product.
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