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Despite the fact that there are numerous webmail services that probably provide more reliability and features than it, Yahoo! Mail is still among the most popular services used worldwide, and this became obvious when people all over the Globe reacted when they could not access their emails.About a million perso... |
29 April 2011
17:00 GMT |
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Google is graduating a couple Gmail Labs features that proved quite useful to the ones that have been trying them out, or, at least, that's what Google is saying. “Don’t forget Bob” and “Got the wrong Bob?” are great if you send emails to multiple recipients often, they make sure th... |
14 April 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Mozilla Messaging, the team responsible with developing applications like F1, Raindrop and mainly the Thunderbird email client, will be integrated in the Mozilla Labs project, as Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation announced the world through her blog.To be fair, the Messagin... |
5 April 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Active Views is a feature Windows Live Hotmail designed to give an entirely new dimension to user emails. Essentially, Active Views streamlines the integration of dynamic and interactive content within messages, allowing users to get access to a range of content right in their inbox. The need for such a feature is o... |
30 March 2011
14:45 GMT |
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Some Gmail users have started to see messages notifying them of an impending change in the service. The message boasts that "better ads" are coming to Gmail and links to a page explaining the changes. Basically, ads are going to become more targeted and hopefully more relevant since they will start looking at other s... |
30 March 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Gmail hardly needs an introduction and chances are most of your friends are already using Google's email client. But that's probably not true for most of your family. For those still stuck with accounts they may have created a decade ago, Google is expanding the number of supported services enabling users t... |
22 March 2011
05:59 GMT |
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RSS/Atom feeds may be dead or may be thriving, depending on who you listen to and the day of the week, but even if the protocol hasn't taken the world by storm, just as it's not about to go away any time soon, the need for a way to subscribe to web content and be notified of updates is still very much real.... |
17 March 2011
09:39 GMT |
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Gmail has just introduced a couple of small features that should make it easier to manage groups and to maintain separate identities while using the same account. They're not huge features, just like most Gmail updates, but anything that simplifies a task is a good update."Organizing your Gmail contacts into gro... |
4 February 2011
07:06 GMT |
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Since Apple launched the iPad on the market a lot of people have bought these devices. Most of them have bought iPads because they are extremely portable, and this means that one can stay in touch with friends and family without having to carry around heavier devices like notebooks. Staying in touch with others mean... |
19 January 2011
07:31 GMT |
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The internet is hardly a novelty at this point yet, for something many are now taking for granted, the internet continues to grow at a huge pace in all aspects, from the number of sites to the number of people using it. Website monitoring company Pingdom has gathered some of the most interesting stats of the last yea... |
13 January 2011
05:31 GMT |
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The inboxes for over 17,000 Windows Live Hotmail users were deleted on December 30th, 2010 and Microsoft is blaming an automated test for the issue, which, ironically enough, was designed to help the company monitor the health of the email service. According to Mike Schackwitz, Windows Live Hotmail team, i... |
7 January 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has resolved an issue reported by users starting with the end of the past year after they logged into their Windows Live Hotmail accounts just to find that all content had been wiped out. According to the Redmond company, this problem impacted only a very limited number of users and was by no means widespre... |
4 January 2011
02:37 GMT |
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The end of 2010 and the start of 2011 brought with it a nasty surprise for some Windows Live Hotmail users that found their inboxes blank. A number of people owning Hotmail accounts started complaining about their messages and customizations having gone missing just a few days ahead of the end of 2010. Microsoft co... |
3 January 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Gmail just added a new feature that should come in very handy in a couple of cases. With email delegation, you can enable other Gmail users to access your email account as well as read and respond to messages. This also works great if you have more than one account that you'd want to follow, but don't want ... |
15 December 2010
05:19 GMT |
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A couple of months ago Google introduced the Priority Inbox in Gmail. Priority Inbox tries to determine which emails are important and which aren't to make it easier to sift through a large number of messages. It's a first step towards a curated inbox and Google is now introducing a couple of small updates ... |
7 December 2010
04:02 GMT |
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Gmail is introducing a couple of changes to the way the Mute feature works, hopefully making it more useful and better at discerning between the emails you want and the ones you don't want to see. The new Smart Mute Gmail Labs experiment aims to ensure that important messages get though even if you muted a conve... |
2 December 2010
06:40 GMT |
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Facebook has unveiled a new messaging platform in a hyped event on Monday. The revamped Facebook Messages brings together email, SMS, chat and direct messages on the social network in one place. The idea is, Facebook says, to simplify the way people communicate online and to make the technology used irrelevant. Faceb... |
16 November 2010
04:38 GMT |
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As expected, AOL is now unveiling a brand-new AOL Mail client dubbed Project Phoenix. The new webmail client is a complete rewrite and focuses on a couple of things, speed and integration - inline content and access to other email services.Phoenix is going live now in testing for users that want to get a taste and wi... |
15 November 2010
03:50 GMT |
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Global spam volume has declined 22 percent in October, from the previous month, and 47 percent since August. Spam is at its lowest point since September 2009.Spam makes up for the vast majority of email traffic, but the volume isn't constant and can sometimes see wild variations in a short amount of time."In add... |
12 November 2010
14:18 GMT |
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While Google may or may not be contemplating moving into Facebook's territory with social networking, though it's definitely working on something social web-related, Facebook is apparently thinking about returning the 'favor' and may be launching a full-blown webmail service next Monday.The fact t... |
12 November 2010
06:14 GMT |
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Gmail is used every day by many millions of people and those who rely on it for work may spend several hours a day using the webmail service. As such, it's very important that the Gmail interface is functional above all else. Still, you may feel the need for something a little different than the standard offerin... |
5 November 2010
08:51 GMT |
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Google’s Brett Lider, User Experience Designer for Gmail, has announced that the people working on the iOS version of the service have managed to speed up scrolling response, a useful enhancement for those who need to handle long conversations. The team also made the toolbars stay on screen as the users scroll ... |
28 October 2010
09:00 GMT |
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Gmail Labs has proven a treasure trove of little features and small tweaks that, in some cases, make a huge difference. A brand new addition could prove a real time-saver for those weeding through a lot of emails, auto-advance to the next conversation. Gmail is also asking users for suggestions to improve the Tasks f... |
27 October 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Google Buzz hasn't proven the Facebook killer many were quick to label it before launch. But the company is sticking with it and it may be giving it even more screen space inside Gmail, in the right sidebar, as some testers have found.Google is apparently experimenting with integrating Google Buzz notifications ... |
3 October 2010
12:02 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced that it has released an updated to both the Thunderbird 3.1 and the Thunderbird 3.0 line. The latest stability and bug-fixing releases, Thunderbird 3.1.4 and Thunderbird 3.0.8 are now available for download. As usual, the updates don't bring any feature and just fix several issues users hav... |
17 September 2010
04:42 GMT |
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Liaise, the software developer of Microsoft Outlook leaves the Beta version behind and becomes available for commercial download. The winner of the the People’s Choice for Best Enterprise Product last fall at DEMO, is now designed to increase productivity for team leaders and email power users, and re-give the... |
14 September 2010
15:13 GMT |
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For one reason or another, most of us have more than one email accounts. But managing them all can be a hassle. Having a desktop client helps, but, sometimes webmail clients are better than their desktop counterparts.If Yahoo is your email client of choice you'll be glad to hear that Yahoo Mail can now import em... |
13 September 2010
15:16 GMT |
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While most tech-savvy folks would find it hard to believe, there are still plenty of people who don't have a Google account. Signing up for a new account on the web can be quite a hassle though, so Google is now making it easier for Yahoo users to create a Google account."How many times have you created a new ac... |
7 September 2010
15:31 GMT |
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Open-Xchange has released a tool to help Microsoft Outlook users to migrate to the open-source alternative. The new tool enables Outlook users of either the stand-alone app or a Microsoft Exchange account to move their emails, contacts and so on to an Open-Xchange Server."We are significantly minimizing the hassle an... |
6 September 2010
15:41 GMT |
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Email overload is more of a problem today than it has ever been, even after email was supposed to have become irrelevant several times already. The fact is that email is still one of the most important, if not the most important communications tool for most people.But managing the hundreds of new emails every day is ... |
31 August 2010
03:36 GMT |
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MessageWire and Solar VPS are announcing that they are now offering Open-Xchange as an integrated email and collaboration solution. The open-source suite is positioned as an Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint alternative."Open-Xchange gives us an alternative high-quality offering that we can offer at approximately hal... |
24 August 2010
04:02 GMT |
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'Undo' is not a feature you'd think you would ever need when sending an email. At least, not until you spot something horribly wrong seconds after you hit Send. Thankfully Gmail has had an 'undo' button of sorts for a while now in Labs. And now, you can choose the time delay before hitting Se... |
23 August 2010
05:08 GMT |
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With Yahoo! optimizing its email services for iPad owners, Google has been staying ahead of the curve as well, by introducing a stacked cards interface in its own Gmail web site, an optimization that specifically targets owners of an Apple tablet.Google has been offering an iOS version of Gmail since April 2009, when... |
19 August 2010
06:18 GMT |
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Yahoo! is joining the rest of the industry in supporting HTML5 with its mobile web mail for iOS devices, noting optimizations for “the gorgeous large screen of the iPad,” and local caching capabilities.“Here at Yahoo! we’re always striving to give our users the best possible communications exp... |
19 August 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Gmail is now rolling out an updated design with a slightly more streamlined appearance and a different layout of some features. The Contacts tool, one of Gmail’s most criticized feature, is also getting a major revamp. Better Contacts has been the most requested feature by Gmail users for a while now and the te... |
11 August 2010
04:50 GMT |
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It's not a surprise that the biggest amount of time Internet users in North America spend online is linked to social networking but it's a surprise to see that people are also using a lot of time to play video games when they are surfing, with online play now taking up a bigger amount of time than other tra... |
6 August 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Gmail has been adding several HTML5-based features in recent months which really come in handy at times. The problem is, despite all the HTML5 hoopla, the technologies associated with the proposed standard are still in their infancy, at least in terms of adoption. So the drag-and-drop features Gmail introduced only w... |
13 July 2010
05:36 GMT |
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An official report issued today reveals that NTP Incorporated, a company founded by Tom Campana, the inventor of wireless email, has filed lawsuits against Apple and others in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia over infringing NTP's eight patents related to the delivery of elec... |
9 July 2010
10:03 GMT |
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Gmail has just introduced one of those small features that some people are really, really going to like. One of Gmail’s most requested features, rich-text signatures are now available to users who want to liven up their messages. They can now change the font size or color or even include images into their signa... |
9 July 2010
03:08 GMT |
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The Internet is now filled with reports on Apple’s iPhone 4 reception issues, in what is somewhat of a design flaw for the new-generation smartphone. However, it’s not something you wouldn’t normally see on a number of different handsets, according to Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. Responding to ema... |
25 June 2010
03:35 GMT |
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After a few months’ work, Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 is finally here. The first major update to the 3.0 line brings several new features and general improvements. Notable are the new Quick Filter toolbar and faster message indexing, as well as a new migration assistant for Thunderbird 2.0 users and several other u... |
25 June 2010
02:24 GMT |
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Craig Wilkinson, software engineer at Google Mobile, confirms in a blog post dated June 21 that iPad owners are getting a new compose interface for Gmail. The change is pretty obvious - users now get a big, distraction-free sheet to write on, while the background is darkened, allowing them to focus on their message. ... |
22 June 2010
08:24 GMT |
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In keeping with Google’s incremental updates philosophy, Gmail has just revamped the contact cards. It’s not a major change, but some things are different and others have been moved about. Google has already introduced several redesigned elements and, at this pace, the entire interface will be redesigned,... |
21 June 2010
06:47 GMT |
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As fans gear up for the upcoming release of Thunderbird 3.1, Mozilla has made available an updated version of the current line, Thunderbird 3.0.5. It’s a bug-fixing release with no new features, though users should see an improvement in message-indexing speed. More than 60 bugs have been fixed in Thunderbird 3.... |
18 June 2010
10:26 GMT |
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Apple has debuted a new interface for its cloud-based MobileMe service, adding a new look for the me.com e-mailing service. Beta-tested since May, the new MobileMe Mail features a new widescreen view interface, server-side e-mail rules, improved performance, new SSL security when composing and sending e-mail, and a f... |
18 June 2010
09:49 GMT |
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Speculation that Apple is dropping the Mac has seemingly begun to annoy Steve Jobs. Apple’s CEO has responded to an email from a blogger who also questioned this theory, boasting, “Completely wrong. Just wait.” Mr. Jobs does not only deny the possibility of Apple dropping the Mac, but he actually hi... |
11 June 2010
04:27 GMT |
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The second and possibly the last release candidate of the upcoming Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 ‘Lanikai’ has arrived. Mozilla has issued Thunderbird 3.1 RC 2 as a testing release, which, should no previously unknown bugs show up, will become the final build of the latest version of the email client. RC 2 fixe... |
10 June 2010
08:15 GMT |
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Gmail is one of the most popular email services in the world and most people use it just for that, email. But Google has been adding services on top of it, sometimes not to everyone’s approval. One of the earliest such moves was the integration of Google Talk with the addition of Gmail chat. The feature eventua... |
9 June 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Ovi Mail, the email solution available for users of a Nokia mobile phone, has just announced that it managed to top 10 million activated accounts. The milestone has been reached about ten months after the first million Ovi Mail registered accounts were announced, and shows that the service is gaining traction among ... |
7 June 2010
08:30 GMT |
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One of Gmail’s killer features is the ‘conversations’ view that groups together email chains to make it easier to follow the discussion. This made the inbox much easier to manage. Some people, though, have never adjusted to this model and have been asking Google for a ‘normal’ email view... |
4 June 2010
06:14 GMT |
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