I recently chatted with Alex Gawley, the service’s product manager, about Gmail’s first nine years — and a little bit about …
Making the Move from Hotmail to Outlook.com
Outlook offers huge advantages over the old Hotmail. It even does a couple of things better than Gmail. Let’s take a look.
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Handle Tries a Task-Based Approach to Taming E-Mail Chaos
A new web service aims to complement Gmail with one-click tools for dealing with the messages — important or otherwise — which fill your inbox to the bursting point.
Barely Legal Teens: Apple iCloud E-mails with Naughty Phrases Deleted
According to several reports, Apple is silently filtering and deleting e-mails that contain certain phrases.
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The Great Hotmail-to-Outlook.com Transition Begins
Microsoft is getting ready to move 300 million people from Hotmail to its much-improved e-mail service.
Stop the Insanity: Inbox Pause Lets You Quiet Gmail Down for a Bit
You can’t stop the mighty deluge of e-mail. You can only hope to contain it. In that spirit, Google Chrome add-on Inbox Pause lets you add a big blue PAUSE button to your Gmail inbox.
It works pretty much like you’d expect: …
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Microsoft’s Fresh New Outlook on Webmail
And the startling news from Microsoft just keeps coming. It’s not just ripping up Windows, selling its own PCs and trying to get consumers to pay for Office as a service. The company is also launching an ambitious new web-based …
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Mozilla Tells Thunderbird Users ‘Our Work Here Is Done’
The Mozilla Foundation may be synonymous with Firefox, but its e-mail client, Thunderbird, is just as venerable. However, the developer of open-source software has concluded that Thunderbird is as good as it’s going to get–or at …
Unroll.me Removes You from Pesky E-mail Lists, Summarizes the Ones You Still Want
If you’re an active participant on the Internet, chances are you’ve been added to all sorts of e-mail lists and newsletters over the years–either unwillingly or on purpose. Maybe you’ve tried to unsubscribe from the worst …
Why Your Inbox May Seem a Little Less Crowded These Days
Sometimes one industry’s bad news is cause to celebrate for… almost everybody else in the world. Return Path, one of the world’s biggest email certification companies, says the number of emails getting through to inboxes …
Internet Supergroup Formed to Defeat Email Scams
Sick of dealing with — or worse, falling for — spam emails that claim to come from companies like Facebook, Yahoo, Google or the like? Hope is at hand, as those companies (and many others) have joined together to create a new …
The Man Who Invented Email
If you’re reading this, you’re online and, as such, you probably have an email account. But have you ever wondered about the origins of email? It’s not exactly a cut-and-dried case, as various forms of electronic messaging have …
