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Google to mix e-mail and chat
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SAN FRANCISCO - Online search engine leader Google Inc. is wedding its instant messaging and e-mail services in the same Web browser, hoping the convenience will lure users from the larger communications networks operated by its chief rivals.
BY MICHAEL LIEDTKE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The new chat feature to be unveiled Tuesday will provide users of Google's Gmail service
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, reacts during a prayer service for Coretta Scott King at the new Ebenezer Church on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta on Monday. Ebenezer Pastor Raphael Warnock is to the far left.
with a list of contacts drawn from past e-mail exchanges and then signal who's available for online conversations.
Automatic status reports about the online availability of friends, family and co-workers have been a hallmark of instant messaging services for years.
Google hopes to make it even simpler to connect with an online contact by allowing users to initiate an electronic conversation within the same Web browser showing an e-mailbox,
The new chat feature only will work if both users have Gmail account or already belong to a service compatible with Google's instant messaging service. Besides Google's own services, the network also includes EarthLink, Jabber.org, Sipphone's Gizmo Project, Chikka in the Philippines, Singapore's MediaRing, Italy's Tiscali and China's Netease.
"We didn't think it made sense for there to be this artificial separation that currently exists between e-mailing and chatting," he said. "People don't
bypassing the need to switch to a separate instant messaging application.
The new chat feature will begin to show up in some Gmail accounts Tuesday and should reach all users within the next few weeks, said Salar Kamangar. Google's vice president of product management.
want to have to have two separate contact lists for e-mail and instant messaging."
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Thousands line up for King
BY ERRIN HAINES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Thousands of mourners filed past the casket of Coretta Scott King on Monday, paying their respects to the "first lady of the civil rights movement" at the historic church where her husband shared his dream for racial equality in the 1960s.
People lined up for blocks outside Ebenezer Baptist Church, waiting for hours in freezing rain for a moment to bid farewell to the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Across the street, an estimated 1,700 people filled the church's newer facility for a musical tribute, including Oprah Winfrey and other entertainers such as Gladvs Knight.
Winfrey laughed as she described persuading King to get a new hairdo on her TV show. And she became emotional
"For me, she embodied royalty. She was the queen." Winfrey said. "You knew she was a force."
when she told how King, in the week before her death, sent her a handmade quilt that her husband's mother had passed down.
"She leaves us all a better America than the America of her childhood." Winfrey said.
King, 78, died Jan. 30 at an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico, where doctors said she was battling advanced ovarian cancer. She also had been recovering from a stroke and heart attack.
As the service concluded, King's eldest daughter, Yolanda King, told the gathering, "I know it is the prayers of so many of you, and from all over the world, that carried her safely home. We knew firsthand the enduring power of love."
Inside the silent sanctuary, mourners filed slowly past the casket, some lingering a moment before moving on. Many walked away dabbing their eyes at the sight of King's body, which was dressed in a pink suit, with a shroud of flowers
blanketing the lower half of the casket. She lay directly below the pulpit where her husband preached from 1960 until 1968.
First in line was Jackie Treen,
51, who flew from Severn, Md.
to Atlanta just to see King's body.
"I'm an African-American woman married to a white man for 30 years," Treen said. "I have to be here. Martin and Coretta made it possible for me to have what I have."
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