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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. Bu...

29 November 2007
13:56 GMT

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...

28 November 2007
05:36 GMT

Have You Seen Anita's Egyptian Vacation Photos?

A new spam campaign is currently in progress attempting to install several infected files on users' computer by tricking them to download and access attached imagery. But this new unsolicited email is quite different from other spam campaigns because the attached archive really contains several photos including ...

26 November 2007
10:40 GMT

Funny Story About Hacked Google Account

Another title could have been "Why you NEVER expect much for free" or better yet "Never answer email that asks about passwords" but I chose to go with that one because it's a little more straightforward.To break it down, there's this guy, Philipp Lenssen of blogoscoped.com, who calls himself E., and which o...

23 November 2007
05:25 GMT

GMail Storage Passes the 5 GB Mark

With Monday morning's update that had me all fired up over the many interesting features that I just had to check extensively as a part of my extreme optimization effort I have going on, I completely missed the big news with the 5 GB mark being skipped over.I just realized it this morning when I was actually rea...

21 November 2007
07:07 GMT

The Revenge of The GMail - This Time It's Prepared

The new features continue to dazzle everyone that's on the receiving end and to make proud those who know they did their part and did it well on the delivering end.It's rather hectic to come to the office early Monday morning with the will and desire to work like a mule and be greeted with something like "D...

19 November 2007
03:45 GMT

GMail Links Allover the Place

I don't know for how long you've been an internet user, but if your experience goes way back to the '90's, you're in for a flashback, the sepia nuanced type. Google has brought back the feature that allows you to copy the address on top of your page as a sort of a permalink to it, whether it ...

19 November 2007
02:56 GMT

Google Email Migration Tool No Longer Needs IMAP

As the careful company that it is, Google is always trying to attract more and more clients to its warm, soft and appealing bazoom. A while ago, it gave the world the means to migrate email from old IMAP mail systems to Google Apps, for those who were reluctant to step into the future without bringing along the email...

16 November 2007
04:58 GMT

Hold on to Your Inbox, GMail Losing Messages

If you're a Gmail user, listen up closely, this might come in handy: users all over are starting to complain on the respective support forums that they have lost all or part of their mail "one pretty morning". The moment they entered their Gmail account they were less than happy to see that the inbox was empty a...

15 November 2007
10:59 GMT

Bet'cha You Didn't Know About GMail's Language Detection

Picture this: you start receiving tons of spam from a lot of foreign countries and it takes so much of your inbox that you can't really find your regular email conversations even if you go to the third page or so. And if you're looking back to the third page you must be either really anxious about reading t...

15 November 2007
10:10 GMT

Yahoo Mail under Attack?

It was said that the new Yahoo Mail comes with improved security features, better anti-spam filters and several other utilities which are supposed to make the email communication safer than any time before. I even believed that... until today, when several spam messages invaded my inbox, trying to convince me to buy ...

14 November 2007
14:00 GMT

Gmail's Speed Is Fantastic! Yeah, on Occasion….

Do you remember the much advertised speed that the new version of Gmail was said to be capable of unleashing into our unsuspecting midst? Flash! Thunder! Lightning! Actually something more in the terms of… Bogus! The pre-fetching of emails is there and is a very useful option if you don't mind the prolonged wait...

12 November 2007
11:01 GMT

Gmail and Yahoo Mail Expecting New Features

No less than 20 companies joined their forces to form an alliance to work on the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) technology, an email authentication standard, which is meant to support the fight against malicious emails sent to the users. As you know, most of us receive phishing messages every day, the email fraud ...

7 November 2007
04:27 GMT

Windows Live Downloads Wave 2

Microsoft is but hours away from the official launch of the next wave of products and services reunited under the Windows Live brand umbrella. The Redmond company has even placed an official countdown webpage associated with Windows Live. At the time of this article, there were still a little over five hours to "bett...

6 November 2007
11:48 GMT

A Not-So-Safe-Email with Symantec Mail Security

Symantec Mail Security is a suite of utilities designed to protect your inbox from all kinds of threats no matter if you're based on Microsoft Exchange, SMTP or Domino. Although the products are designed to defend your email, the Symantec Mail Security solutions are unable to reach their goal due to multiple vul...

5 November 2007
03:07 GMT

Gmail IMAP for All Users?

A few days ago, Google rolled out what seems to be the most important Gmail feature launched this year: the IMAP access which enables the consumers to control all the features of the Google technology straight from their desktop. Yesterday, I was reading some articles sustaining that Gmail's function is currentl...

1 November 2007
04:27 GMT

Hot Screenshots of The New Gmail Now Available

These days, one of the most popular pieces of news is surely represented by the new Gmail which seems to be in the labs although the Mountain View company didn't say much about it. Besides loading time improvements and some other features, we don't know too many details about the new Gmail. But Philipp Lens...

30 October 2007
07:03 GMT

Google: Gmail Blocks Spam! OK, Just Wait to See My Account!

Gmail is surely one of the most popular email technologies on the web but this doesn't necessarily mean that it is also very powerful and efficient in all its features. For example, Google sustains Gmail manages to block most spam messages coming into its inboxes but I must say I'm pretty disappointed with ...

30 October 2007
06:32 GMT

Hi, IE7 and Firefox 2 Fans! Here Are Some Hot Details About The New Gmail!

Yesterday, lots of Internet reports were talking about a new Gmail, most of them being based on some statements made by the Google officials at the Analyst Day on October 24. Because of that, the fans of the technology where pretty excited so here are some new details coming straight from the Gmail team. Dan Pupius, ...

30 October 2007
05:05 GMT

Faster Gmail In The Labs

The super giant Google is currently working on an improved version of Gmail, which is supposed to be faster than the one available at this time. As blogger Ionut Alex Chitu wrote, Google's officials who spoke at the Analyst Day event on October 24 gave several signs of a new Gmail version that includes several g...

29 October 2007
03:52 GMT

Symantec Mail Security Not So Secure

Symantec Mail Security for SMTP is a technology designed by the famous company Symantec which is supposed to protect users' accounts from several types of web threats. Although the application has this clear goal, it seems like it might fail in its attempt to defend the users due to several vulnerabilities repor...

26 October 2007
09:32 GMT

Gmail Notifier - The Gmail Account in Your Tray

Since Gmail is one of the most popular email technologies on the web, numerous consumers are looking for alternative ways to check their accounts for new messages as the old fashioned browser login takes too much time. Besides POP3, the consumers are now able to read and send messages using the IMAP support implement...

25 October 2007
10:32 GMT

Gmail Now with IMAP Support!

If you're one of the users who prefer to access their Gmail account from a mail client and not from the web-based interface then I have some great news for you: the Mountain View company implements IMAP support in Gmail! Now, you're able to control the messages in your account straight from your desktop. I...

24 October 2007
04:49 GMT

Gmail vs. Yahoo Mail on Storage Size

Gmail and Yahoo Mail are two of the most popular technologies on the web as the parent companies Google and Yahoo are often implementing lots of new goodies. But the most important aspect of the two services seems to be the storage capacity because the two providers are challenging each other with more and more attra...

15 October 2007
10:33 GMT

Yahoo Mail Survey! Participate Now and Win...

It's pretty important to know what aspects of your mail technology must be improved in order to make it more useful for its customers. Also, you have to know which sides are most attractive and which are not because a web-based technology must be built in relation with users' demands in order to satisfy the...

9 October 2007
16:31 GMT

Yahoo Mail Celebrates Its 10th Birthday!

Yahoo Mail today celebrates the 10th birthday as the Sunnyvale super giant Yahoo acquired Four 11, the developers of RocketMail, ten years ago in October 1997. Since then, Yahoo Mail has grown up a lot and it has become one of the top solutions on the market due to its continuously increasing popularity among the Int...

9 October 2007
06:12 GMT

Yahoo Mail Showing Funny Liam Animations

In case you're still using the classic version of Yahoo Mail, switch now. You have to see this. The new Yahoo Mail comes with lots of Liam animations which can improve your mail reading experience but some of the users find them really annoying. Maybe you don't know what Liam is. Well, Liam is actually Mail...

3 October 2007
04:40 GMT

Microsoft Wants to Handle Your Mail Personally, Say Goodbye to Privacy

While the email has become a circadian aspect of the Internet era, traditional, postal mail is also still a very mundane presence. But with the increasing need for classic documents to evolve and become digitized, the postal mail industry is also affected, and Microsoft is prepared to offer a solution designed to tak...

1 October 2007
08:15 GMT

New and More Powerful Mail for Exchange from Nokia

Nokia announced the new version of its mobile email software client, Mail for Exchange, ready for consumers who use Microsoft Exchange Server and Nokia Eseries phones or selected Nokia Nseries handsets. Mail for Exchange 2.0 comes to boost the user experience and enables mobile access to the high-class features of M...

28 September 2007
09:27 GMT

Yahoo Mail Becomes More Secure

Yahoo Mail has always been one of the most criticized email technologies because the users considered it has weak spam filters which are not able to protect and defend the consumers. Since the new version of Yahoo Mail was officially rolled out as a final release, the Sunnyvale super giant presented new or improved f...

26 September 2007
04:32 GMT

Yahoo Mail Evolving Slowly... Maybe Too Slowly...

The Sunnyvale super giant Yahoo released the final version of Yahoo Mail, the mail technology which is supposed to represent the best solution for a web-based mail service. Since it rolled out the final product, all the accounts were included in the upgrade process but some of us are still using a beta mail solution ...

21 September 2007
09:17 GMT

Yahoo Mail - Almost a POP3 Client

Yahoo Mail received lots of features in the recent period but it seems like the parent company doesn't want to stop. In fact, today's feature was introduced some time ago but many of the users are not actually using it. The Signature option is one of the functions which take Yahoo Mail to another level and ...

19 September 2007
05:42 GMT

Yahoo Mail to Get Stunning Features

The super giant Yahoo agreed to pay $350 million for Zimbra, a company that would support the firm's efforts to improve the email solution and make it very competitive for the other technologies on the market. Although Yahoo improved Mail a lot, it seems like it wants even more and Zimbra is the one which can st...

18 September 2007
03:07 GMT

Gmail vs. Yahoo Mail - The Battle Reloaded

Some time ago, I wrote a similar article and, after I compared the two mail solutions, I concluded that Google's technology is better and provides multiple useful functions for the users. But now, after the Sunnyvale super giant Yahoo released the final version of Yahoo Mail, I'm asking you again: which one...

5 September 2007
10:45 GMT

How to Use Yahoo Mail's Free SMS Feature

Yahoo recently rolled out the new version of Yahoo Mail, a special flavor of the technology which was first released in September 2005. Since then, all the users were able to test it but the Sunnyvale company was finally prepared to officially publish the final version. Because it is built in AJAX, the new Yahoo Mail...

5 September 2007
03:09 GMT

Teens Surfing the Internet for Music

A new UK study conducted by the Internet service provider Pipex revealed that most of the web users with ages over 60 connect to the Internet only with a single goal: to check their email account. The survey was conducted only in the United Kingdom and included 500 Internet users. What's more interesting is that...

4 September 2007
09:37 GMT

More Gmail Invitations to Come Soon

Since it was first released, Gmail was available as a private beta and every user who was interesting in obtaining a new account could do it using an invitation provided by Google. At this time, even if Gmail is available for free for all the users, we are all able to send no less than 100 invites to other Internet c...

3 September 2007
14:46 GMT

Five Gmail Secrets Revealed by Google

Gmail is surely one of the top mail technologies currently available on the Internet because it offers large storage capacity, powerful spam filters and several other features that attract a considerable number of consumers. Obviously, all the users of the service customize it by their own needs using all kinds of tr...

3 September 2007
02:16 GMT

Yahoo's Comment on the Lottery Contest: FAKE!

Some time ago, I wrote an article about a new spam campaign affecting the Yahoo accounts that informed the users about a special Yahoo Lottery involving some very attractive prizes. Obviously, it was only a fake message although some of the users might believe that they are very lucky because they won such big prizes...

31 August 2007
10:08 GMT

Yahoo Mail - A Threat for Your Computer?

Following the recent release of Yahoo Mail final version, numerous users migrated to the giant portal's technology. But some of them were surprised to see that Yahoo Mail is not actually working while sometimes, its main page is not even loading. Well, there can be numerous causes for this problem but one of the...

31 August 2007
09:03 GMT

Yahoo Mail Unavailable for Mobile Users

The recently upgraded Yahoo Mail is currently unavailable for the Blackberry users who want to access the service from their device. At this time, there is no official reason for the outage but the Sunnyvale company is working with Sprint Nextel to resolve the problem. The Chicago Tribune informs that the customers o...

31 August 2007
06:39 GMT

Yahoo Mail: 'Still A Beta? Wait A Second!'

The Sunnyvale company Yahoo recently released the final version of Yahoo Mail with lots of new improvements and functions that might convince people to migrate from the classic edition. Although they were introduced in beta version of Yahoo Mail, the web-based Yahoo Messenger and the unlimited storage come as two fun...

31 August 2007
03:15 GMT

Here's Your Special Gmail Gift!

Back in July, the Mountain View giant Google invited the Gmail fans to create a collaborative video to show the world how the mail solution manages to connect the users. After one month of recordings and submissions, the folks working at the Googleplex created the final movie that now all of you can access. If you do...

29 August 2007
03:15 GMT

Yahoo Mail + Yahoo Messenger + Mobile Phones

Yesterday, the entire web was talking about the new Yahoo Mail, (the beta one as we all know it) which was now upgraded to the final product level. Yahoo Mail, the technology that competes with Gmail, comes with several new goodies that are meant to improve the email experience. First of all, the interface is complet...

28 August 2007
04:35 GMT

Yahoo Mail Out Of Beta! Finally!

The Sunnyvale company Yahoo prepares to upgrade Yahoo Mail from the beta stage to a final product, introducing several new goodies that might increase the number of consumers. Yahoo Mail has been a beta technology for a very long time, all the users having the possibility to use the new interface instead of the class...

27 August 2007
06:25 GMT

Yahoo Mail Unlimited Storage - Somehow Useless Capacity

Some time ago, the Sunnyvale company Yahoo announced that its mail solution will provide unlimited storage size for all the users starting May 2007. At this time, we have even more than infinite capacity: Yahoo Messenger was also introduced into the mail interface allowing the users to communicate straight from Yahoo...

23 August 2007
16:46 GMT

How to Set Up Yahoo Mail as The Default Email Client

Yahoo Mail is a very popular email technology that has millions of users in every corner of the world. That's why numerous consumers are looking for simple solutions to access and control their accounts as well as send and receive messages. As you probably know, Yahoo provides POP3 support only for the premium m...

22 August 2007
05:51 GMT

More on Storm

Some people are curious and sometimes click on dubious links they receive in their e-mails, then they get infected with viruses. There has been a lot of recent talk about the Storm virus that sends a lot of spam with links to different websites, all containing malware. So, now you will get to know what such messages ...

21 August 2007
06:47 GMT

Gmail - Today's Web-Based POP3 Client

Gmail is surely one of the top mail services currently on the market, being developed by the famous company Google. Since it was officially rolled out on the Internet, Gmail grew up a lot and recorded a considerable amount of users hungry for a powerful mail solution. In 2004, Gmail was described as the technology th...

20 August 2007
10:36 GMT

Yahoo Mail? Messenger? Search Engine? All You Need on a Single Page!

Many of the Yahoo products were dramatically improved but the giant portal didn't also modify the help manuals created for them. So, here we are, using Yahoo Mail Beta but there is no help menu that would describe the latest features and how we can use them. Well, this thing was recently changed when the Sunnyva...

17 August 2007
14:51 GMT




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