Online video services such as YouTube and Joost are pushing internet capacity to breaking point, a top Google executive has warned.

Vincent Dureau, head of TV technology at Google, said that the web will soon struggle to meet rising demand for high-quality online video.

The search giant paid $1.65bn for YouTube last year.

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Search firm opens up email service to EMEA.

Google has dropped the invitation-only system for its email service in several markets.

A company spokesman told vnunet.com that the search giant would be allowing users in EMEA and Brazil to obtain email accounts freely for the service known in the UK and Germany as Google Mail, and as Gmail everywhere else.

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