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One of the benefits of Web-based email is the ability to log on from just about anywhere — at home, at work, a friend’s house, a mobile device or even a public library or cybercafe.

But what if you forget to log off? Someone else who encounters an active session not only can read your personal correspondences, but they also can use that account to grab your passwords from many online services that offer to send reminders via email.

Google Inc’s Gmail service is trying to address that by letting you know if you’re still logged on elsewhere and giving you a chance to disconnect remotely.

At the bottom of a Gmail inbox is a small notice of other active sessions. The new feature, being rolled out to users in waves, also offers some information on the time and location of recent Gmail activities.

The notification is bound to be useful, though it’s by no means foolproof. You have to be log on somewhere to learn of other active sessions, and you have to look carefully for that notice. And if you have chosen to save your password on the other computer, someone else can simply log back on unless you change it.

At the bottom of your screen: Last account activity: 1 minute ago at this IP (xxx.xxx.xxx.xx).  Details

After  you are logged on to another system:

This account is open in 1 other location at this IP (xxx.xxx.xx.xxx).   Last account activity: 0 minutes ago.  Details

Click on “Details” link to see which all systems you account is logged on. Also you can log out all those other sessions, and if you feel you password might be changed, you can do it before anyone else dose it.

London: Getting hitched in a 17th-century palace might be all super stylish, but from Japan, comes news of a new wedding venue that will surely score even higher — space.
A Japanese wedding company is offering to provide a service that will allow couples to tie the knot in space.
First Advantage will start accepting applications for its “Space Wedding” service from July 1.
The ceremony will take place in 2011 on board the Rocket Plane XP — a craft specially developed by an American company.
The £1.1million service will see you tie the knot in outer space — about 100 kilometres above the earth’s surface.
It also includes a wedding dress, a wedding party on the ground, transportation, accommodation and live broadcasting from space.
As well as the happy couple, the craft will also accommodate a priest, a pilot and two guests. A four-day training period must be undertaken by the couple prior to the hourlong flight.
A company that sends wealthy tourists into space announced recently that it willsend billionaire Google cofounder Sergey Brin to the International Space Station, for the first entirely private flight. Space Adventures Ltd said Brin had paid $5 million to reserve a seat on a future flight. ANI  [Times of India]

Mozilla’s chairman explains why mobile devices need an open-source browser.

Technology Review

Mazel tov, Mozilla, for claiming the Guinness world record for most downloaded software in a 24-hour period after 8 million of your minions snagged Firefox 3 on launch day. It’s not that big of a feat considering you took the record from absolutely no one, but you sure set the bar pretty high for anyone planning on breaking it. [Firefox via Reuters] Gizmodo

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