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DMARC: Facebook, Google, Microsoft & more team on anti-phishing

Chris Davies, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Facebook and other big names have announced a new anti-spam and phishing project, DMARC.org, creating a new system for email authentication that promises to learn from past attacks. "Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance" will use "a feedback loop between legitimate email senders and receivers to make impersonation more difficult" and, the companies hope, will eventually be adopted by the IETF as a standard. Read The Full Story

Gmail for iOS gets first major update with Scribbles, signatures, and more

Rue Liu, Dec 14th 2011 Discuss [1]

Google has released a major update today for its Gmail app on iOS. When the app was first launched back in November, it was quite a mess and although Google fixed the bugs, not much made it more compelling to use than the native email client in iOS or even accessing Gmail directly via Safari. But this latest update brings more to the table, adding several new features that are both useful and fun. Read The Full Story

Blackberry PlayBook’s long-awaited email client spotted in new screenshots

Michael Crider, Nov 22nd 2011 Discuss [11]

To the bafflement of many, the Blackberry Playbook launched without a native email, calender or contact manager, leaving long-time Blackberry users who depended upon the phones' famous email features puzzled. It's been a long time coming, but it appears that the built-in email client will finally appear soon. At the latest Blackberry Innovation forum, RIM showed off screenshots of the apps, due in an update to the Playbook's software in February of 2012. Read The Full Story

Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch released

Chris Davies, Nov 2nd 2011 Discuss [25]

Google has released its official Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, promising faster access to messages, better visibility of important emails, and a UI that’s designed from the ground up for a touch interface. As expected, the app supports push notifications and sounds, along with full inbox search, and on the iPad there’s a split-pane view which shows both inbox and message preview.

Update: First impressions aren’t so hot… read on for more details

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Gmail update released today, web-based upgrade live

Chris Burns, Nov 1st 2011 Discuss [6]

Today Google has begun rolling out their newest look at Gmail, and below we’ve got an in-depth look at the newest version of the web-based version of the platform, it including both the design and the method for updating your interface to this newest edition. Google aims here to make Gmail as “clean, simple, and intuitive as possible.” See if you agree through the description below and see how you like the integration with Google’s other systems as well.

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Google leaks upcoming Gmail redesign

Rue Liu, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [5]

Google posted a video to its YouTube account today revealing some of the changes to its upcoming revamp of the Gmail interface. The redesigned UI unsurprisingly carries over the new theme introduced with the Google+ social network and focuses on making Gmail as clean, simple, and intuitive as possible. Overall, the interface is a lot sleeker and more customizable. Read The Full Story

RIM insists BlackBerry outage not due to hacking, users won’t lose messages

Rue Liu, Oct 12th 2011 Discuss [3]

Earlier this morning, it was reported that the BlackBerry service outage, which has afflicted users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina for the past three days, has now hit the US and Canada. In response, RIM held an ad hoc press conference today to answer some questions and to reassure that the problem at hand is not a security breach. Read The Full Story

RIM details BlackBerry service failures

Rue Liu, Oct 11th 2011 Discuss [2]

Earlier today, we reported that RIM apologized for the BlackBerry service outage experienced by users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and other parts of the world. And now, although many are still without service, the company has issued a statement with a more detailed response as to what caused the issue. Read The Full Story

Android, iOS 5 to get native Hotmail app

Rue Liu, Oct 3rd 2011 Discuss [4]

For many of us, Hotmail may sound like something from the distant past that haunted us with spam, but Microsoft is aiming to bring it back to life with a slew of new improvements and the release of an official Android app today for the free email service. The company also revealed that Hotmail will get native support in the upcoming iOS 5. Read The Full Story

Gmail web app updated: Pull-to-Refresh and Retina Display icons

Chris Davies, Aug 4th 2011 Discuss [2]

Google's legal team might be busy blaming Apple for all that is wrong in the patent world, but the Gmail team is far more interested in giving iPhone 4 users a better email experience. In the latest update to the Gmail web-app, the company has added two of the most-requested features: pull-to-refresh support and high-res icons to suit the iPhone's Retina Display. Read The Full Story

Disclaimer: Facebook Email Addresses Aren’t “Awesome”

Chris Burns, Jul 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

There a message being thrown around today that the "Awesome" announcement made by Facebook this week will be about Facebook-based emails. We'd like to set the record straight in saying that not only are Facebook emails NOT going to be the announcement, they're also not new at all. They've been around for weeks, and lower in this post we'd just love to show you how you can grab one. Read The Full Story