[ # ] Gmail Gives Info on Multiple Sessions

/* Posted July 10th, 2008 at 11:07pm */
/* Filed under Google */

gmail multi session

If you’ve been using Gmail lately and looked at the bottom where it usually displays how much of your quota you’re currently using, you will notice a new line of interesting text indicating information about any activity that has occurred from any number of multiple sessions of Gmail you are currently signed on under. For example if you leave Gmail signed in on work and go home and sign on again, Gmail will now tell you that you are also signed on in another location.

If you click on the Details link, you get even more information about any browser, POP3, or IMAP access to your Gmail account. Talk about Big Brother. I suppose this would be useful if ever you caught wind of an unexpected session being signed on somewhere halfway around the world. Though you can remotely sign off other sessions, who’s to say the guy on the other end won’t sign you off first? At any rate it’s an interesting little feature if not somewhat useless.