Google is developing free e-mail
Not so much a secret rumor, as it is reported in New York Times (and NYT wouldn’t have reporters just thinking up stories, would they?), but Google is developing free e-mail offering in order to compete with Yahoo (or so NYT notes, since the story is about Yahoo, not Google):
It is expected to be the hottest initial public offering this year. And now Google is preparing to offer a free e-mail service, people close to the company said, in a bid for Yahoo’s most important source of loyal customers.