Gmail, called Google Mail 40 elsewhere;Austria and before in Germany - until 2012 - and United Kingdom - until 2009 - ) by legal problems, 1 is a service of electronic mail with POP3 and IMAP free possibilities provided by the U.S. company Google, Inc. on April 15, 2004 and that has captured the attention of the media for its technological innovations, their capacity, and by some news that warned of the violation of the privacy of the users. After more than 5 years, the Gmail service, along with Google Calendar, Google Docs ( now integrated into Google Drive ) Google Talk and Google Buzz ( closed ) July 7, 2009, they let their quality of Beta and went on to be considered finished products. In November 2012, Gmail was able to overcome a Outlook ( the most widely used until that date 41 e-mail service; in terms of number of registered users ( 41 globally; with a total of 287,9 million users