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Mail Improvements Detailed for iOS 5

Chris Burns, Jun 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

On June the 6th, 2011 in California at WWDC's first keynote, amongst giant announcements of undeniable fortitude and the letting loose of prices for newness so low that the competition can't possible compete, Apple revealed a tiny bit that might have a giant impact on iPhone and iPad users worldwide: improvements to Mail. Rich-text formatting, indentation control, and draggable addresses were amongst the simple changes that'll make a whole world of difference for those who use Mail primarily for their email. Read The Full Story

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Apple Reveals All New Mail App for OS X Lion

Chris Burns, Jun 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

Adding to the stack of featured items for the new OS X Lion revealed at WWDC 2011, the crew on stage at the event’s first keynote revealed a whole new Mail app. This new version was shown to be completely re-vamped in many ways, offering you two or three column view, snippets on the left, and a favorites bar for you to be grabbing your hottest folders in a snap. Searching has been smartened up inside Mail as well.

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Hackers access Epsilon email database exposing email addresses

Shane McGlaun, Apr 4th 2011 Discuss [13]

Spam really, really sucks. None of us likes to get an email box full of ads from online pharmacies and other junk that no one really wants. One of the largest email marketing companies around that handle email lists for major companies like JPMorgan Chase & Co, Kroger, Capital One Financial, and TiVo has notified the companies that its email database has been breached. Read The Full Story

How Tablets Can Connect the Disconnected

Samia Perkins, Mar 29th 2011 Discuss [13]

Many of us have heard stories about tablets being more accessible for those who have trouble dealing with PCs. Grandmothers, for example, who have never used a computer, get hold of an iPad and start tapping away like an old pro. What is it about tablets that make them so engaging, and make them so much more appealing than using a PC for some people? Let's face it, PCs can be complicated. If you know nothing about using one, setting up a PC could be an insurmountable task. You have software to install, inexplicable error messages, antivirus notifications always popping up... Read The Full Story

Gmail Labs launches Smart Labels

Kevin Fubar, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [2]

This morning the duders down at Google Labs released a neat little ditty. I don't know if you use labels already, but you should check out the smart label system. Labels gave you the ability to sort your e-mail into different tags based on regular expressions. It is implemented with some really simple pattern matching. Though with a little bit of computer wizardry you could sort your mail pretty well, it's not really all that useful with today's internet. Luckily, Google has our collective backs. These labels are actually pretty smart. I navigated myself to this link to turn on the service. Read The Full Story

Gmail: Google finds missing emails eaten by bug

Samia Perkins, Mar 1st 2011 Discuss [3]

We reported yesterday on a service interruption on Gmail. It turned out that due to a software bug, about 40,000 Gmail accounts were wiped clean, leaving inboxes empty. But thanks to Google will soon have all 40,000 Gmail accounts that were wiped out back in action. Google will soon restore the "misplaced" data (it was never really lost, thanks to Google's data storage redundancy). Read The Full Story

Gmail in the midst of service interruption

Shane McGlaun, Feb 28th 2011 Discuss [1]

If you are a Gmail user today may not be starting smoothly for you. Gmail is having a service disruption right now and according to some reports, the problem is going well beyond simply not being able to log into Gmail. Read The Full Story

Hotmail disposable email: Would you throw away Gmail for this?

Chris Davies, Feb 4th 2011 Discuss [10]

Hotmail is launching a new temporary email system, which will allow existing users of the free Microsoft mail service to create disposable emails linked to their own account. Intended to offer a throwaway contact method for use with contacts you believe might subsequently sell your details or spam you, initially up to five alias addresses can be created - and replaced at any time - and routed to your core Hotmail account, while Microsoft expects to eventually increase that to fifteen. Read The Full Story

Yahoo! IMAP issue affects iPhone too reveals email sniffing

Chris Davies, Feb 3rd 2011 Discuss [3]

Yahoo! wasn't happy with Microsoft blaming their email systems for the Windows Phone 7 "phantom data" bug; the company pulled out a long list of rival OSes and suggested since none of them issues it was actually Microsoft's flaky IMAP support to blame. Unfortunately it seems they can't shake responsibility quite that easily; Within Windows' Rafael - who actually figured out the original Yahoo! issue hours before Microsoft announced it - has discovered that a similar problem occurs on the iPhone, too. Read The Full Story

Gmail Delegation Introduced: One Account, Multiple Users

Chris Burns, Dec 15th 2010 Discuss [1]

Now when you've got more than one account, you can view them all in one window. Now when you've got more than one person who's accessing your one account, you don't need to give them your password. Email delegation is now in full effect over at Gmail. This functionality has been in place for Google Apps accounts before, now it's available to anyone using Gmail. This news comes right on top of another update to Gmail: Restoring Deleted Entries. This one's more for the multitasker. Read The Full Story

Google VS the US Government

Chris Burns, Nov 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

The lawsuits continue! Of course there's lawsuits being thrown around all the time in the electronics and interactive software business, but every once in a while, a few pop up as extra noteworthy. In just the past day we've covered Apple VS Motorola, Apple VS HyperJuice (aka HyperMac), and now it's Google VS the United States Government. Why, you might ask? Apparently the Department of the Interior didn't let them play in all their reindeer games, and they HATE when that happens. Read The Full Story

Google’s Gmail Now Lets You Turn Off Conversation View

Evan Selleck, Sep 29th 2010 Discuss [3]

Today, Google made it official: you can now turn off conversation view. While there's some people out there that might say that the conversation view is one of the reasons that Gmail became so widely adopted, so quickly, it looks like there were also plenty of people out there that didn't care for the feature all that much. And so, while Google isn't taking it away entirely, they are giving you the option to turn it off and on. Read The Full Story