Gmail Rolls Out 13 New Features
	Gmail rocks and all of you knew it already, but even so, users always want to see more features from Google’s mail service. Regardless if we’re talking about folders or a different UI, people have always requested new functions. Because of that, Google has recently rolled out Gmail Labs, a special testing platform which incorporates test versions of the upcoming Gmail features which could be used by all users of the mail service. ... [read more >>]
	08 June 2008, 06:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Better with IMAP
	Because technology has come a long way over the past decade, people are now able to do lots of things that weren't previously possible. One of those things is to access their email accounts directly from their handheld portable device, namely mobile phones. And, if you are Gmail user and have tried to connect to your Gmail account via your mobile phone, you know how frustrating this is, mainly because any action you take doe ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! Tries to Bring "Lottery" Spammers to Court
	At the beginning of this month, we brought you news about a mail scam that aimed to steal personal information from Yahoo! Mail users. Back then, it was reported that a number of Yahoo! users had received notification emails that literally made them winners in a Yahoo! Lotter ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2008, 02:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Is Now Faster
	Last week, Google has announced a new upgrade to its mail service, Gmail. For those of you that have been using Google's mail service and have not yet noticed the new option, here's a quick insight. The people responsible for development at Gmail have thought of a way to improve access times for those who have poor Internet connection. If you turn to your Gmail account and sign in, you will find a new option displaye ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Mail Removes In-Mail Ads
	Until now, messages sent from a Yahoo Mail account automatically included a tagline advertisement placed at the end of the email which promoted certain Yahoo services or functions. Lots of people said these ads were extremely annoying while a few others considered them quite useful. Well, the Sunnyvale-based company has decided to remove the advertisements and leave the messages as clean as the users want, Ryan K., Community Manager, Yahoo ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 02:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Use Your Google Account to Login to Zoho
	For those of you that are Zoho users, the AdventNet web-based application has just released a new feature. You can now turn to the Zoho website and login using either one of your Google or Yahoo! accounts. The announcement was made yesterday on the Zoho blogs and is available for anyone wanting to login to Zoho. For those who aren't familiar with Zoho, here is a quick reminder. Zoho is a web-based application offering a s ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 10:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail – Faster than Light
	Gmail has always been a very popular webmail service and, ever since it was officially released, it has been drastically improved with a large number of new functions. But what's more important is that since the day it was born and until today, Google has continuously improved Gmail in order to make it work faster and faster and, according to Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail Performance, the company will continue to focus ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 08:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Watch Out! Yahoo Is Going to Change.
	The fellows at Yahoo! are planning something really big, a change that, they say, will change Yahoo! users web experience. And they, the users, only have to wait until the second half of 2008 to see it, which is pretty close. At Web 2.0 Expo, Ari Balogh, Yahoo's new Chief Technology Officer, has presented Yahoo's strategy for a new open Yahoo. The new strategy aims at improving the quality of Yahoo products and the gene ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 10:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! Lottery Makes People Rich Overnight
	A couple of Yahoo! mail users have recently found themselves winners at the lottery contest, in which they haven't even participated. According to the Yahoo! Mail Blog, a number of users have reported receiving a mail from the "Yahoo! Awards Center" that claims they are winners of a £845,000 prize. The notification states that the users have won the Yahoo! Lottery award and they "only" need to r ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 07:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Confirmed: Kaspersky Anti-Spam 3.0 Really Provides Advanced Protection
	Kaspersky Lab's Anti-Spam 3.0 has recently received the anti-spam certification from ICSA Labs which underlines the fact that the application is really efficient when it comes to blocking unsolicited email traffic. The ICSA Labs certification is only granted to security applications that manage to discover more than 95 percent of spam with a 1 in 100,000 false positive rate, according to a press release published by Kaspersk ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 17:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Mail Bug Adds Unsolicited Text, POP3 Still Needed
	Yahoo Mail back in the spotlights. Unfortunately for the Sunnyvale-based company, Yahoo Mail caught our attention due to an error which, according to Yahoo's officials, adds some unrequested text at the footer of the messages users compose. Ryan K, Community Manager, Yahoo Mail, wrote that the engineers have already identified the source of the problem and are currently working on it, the fix being expected sometimes in a da ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 03:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Better Security for Yahoo Mail, POP3 Still Ignored
	The new Yahoo Mail is one of the favorite web services for lots of people and, if we ignore the lack of some functions, it can be useful as well. But, since it's a mail service, and a pretty popular one, I would say, since million of users have created accounts, security measures are also welcome because they're supposed to protect the registered members against malicious things such as spam, hacks or other exploits. Th ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 02:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail and Yahoo Mail - Spammers' Favorite Services
	Following today's report that spammers are currently looking to hire people for breaking CAPTCHAs, it seems like two of the services supposed to be used during spam attacks are actually the leaders Gmail and Yahoo Mail. According to The Register, some spam filtering service have already took attitude and deviced to "throttle messages from Gmail and Yahoo" as a move to reduce the amount of unsolicited emails coming ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2008, 08:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Mail to Integrate Telepathy, but Still No POP3
	Since yesterday we all celebrated April Fool's Day, the folks at Yahoo have also tried to do some pranks to their users, no matter if we're talking about Yahoo Mail or other product developed by the Sunnyvale company. Although we're all expecting the implementation of POP3 support, Ryan K., Community Manager at Yahoo Mail, announced a new function which will be introduced in the mail service very soon: telepathy. O ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2008, 04:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Mail Has Search but Lack of POP3 Still Annoying
	In case you’ve read my last articles, you may be tempted to believe that I’m an addicted Yahoo Mail fan that can’t live without POP3. Well, I’m not, but I can’t imagine such a popular webmail service without POP3 support. Maybe I’m not one of those old-fashioned guys who prefer to log in to a website in order to check their email account, but doing such a thing needs time and time is quite important nowadays. So, POP3 in Yahoo Ma ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Still No POP3, but ‘More Ways to Get to Yahoo! Mail’!
	POP3 is probably the only thing that makes lots of users turn to Yahoo Mail and use it as their default email service. However, the Sunnyvale company Yahoo, the owner of Yahoo Mail, is not willing to introduce POP3 support in the free version of the service and continues to offer this function only to the paying customers. In a blog post published a few days ago, Yahoo’s officials presented a simple way to access Yahoo Mail, othe ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 07:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Mail: Still No POP3/IMAP, Just a Shortcut for the Time Being
	Yahoo Mail is, as the Sunnyvale company sustains, the best web-based email, although it doesn’t provide important functions such as POP3/IMAP support. And let’s be honest, such a function would convince a lot of users to configure their email accounts to work with desktop clients, without visiting the website anymore. Maybe this is the main problem, Yahoo wants a service that brings visitors on the page… Millions of consumers ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Features in the All-New Yahoo! Mail
	The Yahoo! Mail Blog, offering peaks into what the team is working on and giving out advice on resolving issues, has given us a heads-up (or better said has pulled our sleeve) on the new features introduced. Judging by the amount of feedback they’ve received and from what people have been telling me related to them, they are big with a capital b. First off, there’s the Download All Attachments option, that ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Change Yahoo! Mail Communicating
	In the past weeks, Yahoo! Mail has experienced some SMTP issues that had messages being delivered late, starting from minutes and up to days. It was a big problem that nobody was aware of unless they specifically checked with the intended receiver. A bigger mess couldn’t be possible, especially with messages that were urgent and did not make it in time. The problem was addressed to by the Community Manager appointed by Yahoo! ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2008, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail, Arrow in Your Email
	Google is trying hard to compete with Yahoo! in the email category because it knows that’s one of the last strongholds the Sunnyvale-based company is left with on the Internet. At the moment, it’s bringing more changes to Gmail in a month than Yahoo! does in a year, and that’s according to statistics. Then again, when you’ve got a late start, that’s the only way to do it. Not many people know about the personal level indicators that [AD ... [read more >>]
	04 March 2008, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Create Your Own Gmail Art Ad
	More often than not, an ad pops out from the rest and just gets you watching it over and over again, until you finally get all of the details and manage to wrap your head around it. Naturally, being one of the biggest companies in the world and having more fans than you can count might bring you good advertising, with even better concepts coming in from all around. I doubt the Russian ad for Gmail will be topped pretty soon. I ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Invisible
	The stealth cloaking generator has hit the Gmail stores and now is available somewhere near you, and other words and phrases to that effect. Google’s mail service has just been added an all-time popular feature with other IMs, the option to appear invisible to your list of contacts – can’t quite name them friends with the trouble the manager had with adding any and all addresses an email was sent to. Google Talk is a delicate little bea ... [read more >>]
	25 February 2008, 16:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! Mail Problem Resolved
	Just the other day I had to send a very important personal message to apologize for something I had done and after taking my time (about an hour) to make it sound really humble and actually confer the feeling of how sorry I was, I clicked my mouse on the "Send" button and, conscience lighter, I went about my other businesses. Only to find out the second day, when I managed to conjure up the guts to attempt a phone call, ... [read more >>]
	25 February 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Thou Shall Not Mistake the Security Seal!
	A while back, Yahoo! decided that it had been receiving too many complaints about people duplicating the login page to their mail service in order to steal their accounts. The one simple solution that the team saw fit to put in place was to allow its users to create something like a seal that would authenticate the official login page. Soon enough after the decision was made, they "folded" the top of the box containi ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 07:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Having a Jealousy Crisis?
	It doesn’t wait for you in its slippers, holding a baseball bat while aggressively approaching you, don’t worry. It couldn’t do that, it’s an email service, not a wife substitute. Nevertheless, the more it knows about you the better it is for you and a better and more organized life you’ll have. At the moment, the only use for the option to add a secondary email address to your Google Account is that it automatically adds the ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 13:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Problems for Internet Explorer 7 Users
	A major issue encountered by several Gmail users who tried accessing their accounts while using the latest Internet Explorer in Microsoft’s Windows Vista was reported on the Google Groups forums. Blank login screens are bad news no matter where you’re trying to log in, but when it’s about email, people tend to be really nervous and anxious for a solution. Fortunately for them, as searchengineland.com’s "rustybrick" r ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 07:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

iPhone Gmail Users, Beware!
	Yesterday’s launch of the new Gmail experience for the iPhone was kind of rushed by the dev team, so they never got the chance to note all the updates that had been implemented. Slowly, probably one every couple of days, they will reach Internet light and show everybody what the engineers have worked so hard for. The IMAP feature that was released by Google in late October is fully functional and as useful as ever when it come ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Old Switcheroo With Gmail
	The Gmail Manager Firefox extension is a time saver for everybody and in case you aren’t using it already you’d better start right away. Besides letting you know when you’ve received a new Gmail message it also lets you switch between Gmail accounts without having to sign out and then log in again. With the time it takes Gmail to load all the messages on lower-end machines, that’s no feat to be taken lightly. You would still have to add ... [read more >>]
	15 January 2008, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Official Contest for Users: What Would You Want Your Yahoo! Mail to Do?
	Yahoo! is trying to get the users behind it and build up from the existing products that they already know as being hits on the Internet. This time, it’s their mail service that takes us for a ride and provides the reason to let that imagination spark, or functionality need be the winner. The contest that Ryan K., the Community Manager for Yahoo! Mail, proposes is dubbed "What are your New Year’s Mail resolutions?" a ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Contact Manager Feature Presented to the World
	In case you’re still in contact with a couple of old friends from junior high, or even before that, and you like to reminisce together the good old times, you’ll most definitely not want to forget any of them, or mistake their addresses when mailing something to the group. That’s where the Google Mail Contact Groups comes in handy as an option. It’s not a mailing list in its full meaning and extent, it’s only a simple way to email a gro ... [read more >>]
	11 January 2008, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Jerry Yang Proves Why Yahoo! Should Be the Starting Point for the Future
	Jerry Yang came to the helm of Yahoo with a clear idea of what he should accomplish and the time he has for the job. He never kept it a secret, he wanted to turn Yahoo! into the starting point for web surfers everywhere, the portal of choice for everyone, no matter if young or old. His plan slowly began unfolding, firstly with the News sections linking to outside Yahoo! space, to the major publications and even to smaller ones; a ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Major Security Update for Yahoo Mail
	Spam messages have always been extremely annoying for all of us, whether they were promoting Viagra, Rolex watches or other drugs. Because of that, email providers and software company joined forces to develop better filters and technologies able to block unwanted messages supposed to reach our inboxes. Yahoo Mail is one of the most popular email services on the web with millions of users in every corner of the world. It's not a secre ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 06:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Try Gmail Baptizing if You’re in the Blue
	Availability for your desired username is always a difficult thing to find so many people turn to the randomized name suggestion, not caring or simply because it actually returned something perhaps better than the original idea (not that it’s very likely, but still…) Every mail service from every company on the market has one of these randomizing things out in the open and they’re willing to lend a hand to those who couldn’t f ... [read more >>]
	03 January 2008, 09:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Email Battles: Gmail vs Yahoo! Mail
	The Goliath when it comes to email of the two is most definitely Yahoo!, with Google’s service playing the part of David. Or in other words, Yahoo! momentarily wipes the floor with Google, because it has been in the free email business ever since the beginning of the Internet as we know it. Popularity is no a small thing to be having, so Yahoo is doing its best to keep its own intact and perhaps even raise it, little by little. ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 12:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo!’s BCC Under the Spotlight
	Yahoo! has decided that its mail client is popular enough to start receiving attention and tutorials in massive numbers, so they have started the Yahoo! Mail blog not so long ago to cover everything there is to know about the various features that are available. I haven’t found anything worthy of noting, so I just thought to myself that the "yes, I did know that clicking the Send button will send a message" type of feed ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Inbox Visualization for Gmail
	The colored labels, which were introduced a couple of weeks ago, kind of revolutionized the approach to inbox and made it all of a sudden a friendly place with a means to quickly find whatever was needed, without having to use the internal search engine built into the client. If red means family, then just click it in order to find all the mails from your siblings or whoever wrote you and have access to the information you sought ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 14:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Voice to Text Message with Alltel
	For those who are not familiar with the name of Alltel, even if you should, the company is America's largest network, with a coverage that goes for the whole nation. Their goal is to provide the most reliable network and "it’s a nationwide network that somebody ... [read more >>]
	18 December 2007, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

“Undo” Gmail?
	I've often heard others just start swearing out of the blue while working on their computers. They just jump up from their chairs and start cursing, as if they've just got out of a fight and they’re all black and blue. And it always is the same reason, not one of them reacts like that unless they have sent a very important email without the attachment that was absolutely necessary. Bummer, I know, and there’s not much ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 15:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mail Security Not so Secure
	A highly critical vulnerability has been discovered in Symantec Mail Security, which may allow an attacker who manages to exploit it to compromise the affected system, Secunia wrote in a security notification rolled out today. The flaw exists in Symantec Mail Security for SMTP version 5.0.1 with Patch 187, but other versions might be affected as well. Symantec Mail Security is a technology powered by the Cupertino company, being ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Debuts New Security Site
	The old and not so good looking Yahoo Mail Security website is dead. But, another eye-candy and more useful website was released today, being supposed to help the Yahoo Mail registered users to keep their accounts clean of spam and unsolicited messages. In the recent few months, the Sunnyvale company Yahoo has worked a lot on Yahoo Mail and h ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 09:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Get Your Children to Sleep to Gmail Stories
	Once upon a time and they lived happily ever after exchanging emails and sharing photographs of themselves and their children, The End. That might be in short a Gmail story of Prince Charming and his beautiful Princess had it been written in modern times and there’d be no Pegasus or whatever means of transportation Prince of the Charming lineage might have used. Oh, and if love didn’t always win the day, like it invariably does i ... [read more >>]
	11 December 2007, 15:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

On GMail and Google Talk Privacy
	The privacy of ones email is, among others, one of the most important features by which you choose your @company.com mail address. As such, it is very important for you to trust the provider of the mail service to not snoop into any of your messages, be them work related or emotional and intimate. And then came Google with its GMail that all of a sudden arose a lot of interest, because of the fact that it was new and most important, consta ... [read more >>]
	10 December 2007, 15:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Not a Day without a GMail Update
	The one subject that I’m always asked about, every morning, by my co-workers is what happened with GMail overnight, what features it was added and when some new things will be brought for everybody to play with. I find myself explaining things quite often as of late, the release of GMail 2.0 looking at the moment like an ongoing rolling out. They are tweaking and patching like crazy, over at the Mountain View based company, so w ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

“We Have Reached the Altitude of 20 Thousand Feet, Please Check Your Email”
	How can this be? Inflight email service and instant messaging? Free? What has the world come to? Are there no more terrorist threats out there? Just imagine the way a conversation would go via Yahoo!’s IM between any random Arab terrorist (I’m not racially profiling, it’s just that this is how they are portrayed in nowadays’ shows): me Abdul: I am in position, next to a very nice lady with child Osama: commence phase one of ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GMail Acting Up? Try Waiting It Out
	I've just praised earlier in the week the GMail team for doing such a good job with the updates that would catch up soon with Yahoo!’s Mail at the rates things were going. Well, what do you know, they've just started goofing up on the PR side of it. Reasons for the accounts being suspended have not been given to the respective account "owners", so they don’t know what it is they have done wrong in case they ... [read more >>]
	06 December 2007, 13:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chatty GMail Out and About
	The day must be really long for the people in charge with working at Google’s mail service. "Get up, work, work, work, lunch, work, work, cup of tea, work, work, work, quick shower, work, dinner at the office, work, falling asleep on the keyboard." And the second day all over again. As foreshadowed by Ionut Alex. Chitu on his blog and related ... [read more >>]
	05 December 2007, 03:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Happy GMail Out of the Works
	The one thing I can see Google is striving to beat Yahoo! at is the mail services and client options. They have a lot of ground to cover, over at the Mountain View Headquarters, and they don’t waste one moment of their time on trivial things. It looks like their main point of concern is user happiness and everything they can do achieve it. On the receiving side I say "bring it!" I’m not sure whether the built-in IM of Yahoo! i ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 14:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Big Day for GMail
	The one field that Google still trails Yahoo! by far is that of the email services, where of the two, Yahoo! is king and Google isn’t even close to being a serious runner up, when it comes to the numbers of users. That’s nothing, says Google, I’ll just add some features and work my way up to the top. But by doing this, besides the latest update that added rich emoticons and group chat, the question that burns a hole through al ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Is Gmail The Real Antispam Warrior?
	Spam. Oh, the incredible annoying email messages coming into my email account and advertising all kinds of things? They must be stopped, somehow. But Google, the owner of Gmail, one of the top technologies when it comes to web-based email, says the next years will come with less spam messages. Hope so. According to Wired, Brad Taylor, software engineer at Google, believes the number of the unsolicited messages coming into our acc ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 08:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

iPhone OK With Gmail, Windows Mobile Blanked and Users Can’t Take It Any More
	"Greetings from Planet Earth! We come in peace, we are friends!" is what the people complaining about the infamous issue of GMail not showing anything except a blank page instead of the regular messages on Windows Mobile could have said to Google and they would have probably been granted more attention. It looks like the customer support service is slacking but that’s not new. After rolling out the GMail IMAP support ... [read more >>]
	28 November 2007, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia