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Google's 20 percent time undergoes rehab

Google's 20 percent time corporate philosophy has undergone some tightening. Is Google being mean or just reacting to the fact that you can't trust everyone with a liberal company policy? by Toni Bowers

Tags: Google Inc., Employee, Blog, Blogging, E-mail Providers, Internet, Toni Bowers

Blog posts 2008-06-11

How do I... Add my existing Gmail account to Windows Mail?

If you have a Gmail account, you know how convenient it is to be able to access your e-mail from any computer connected to the Internet -- including your home computer. You just point your browser to the Gmail server, sign in, and you're sending and receiving e-mail messages in...

Tags: Box, Google Gmail, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Greg Shultz

Blog posts 2008-04-23

April Fool's Day pranks prove some corporations have a sense of humor

If you let this April Fool's Day pass without pulling some kind of gags, then shame on you. Some industry giants yesterday proved that they actually had a sense of humor with the hijinks they took part in. Qualcomm "announced" a new wireless phone it called HandSolo....

Tags: Humor, Robots, E-mail Providers, Telecom & Utilities, Digital Music, Cellular Phones, Digital Media, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Toni Bowers

Blog posts 2008-04-02

How do I configure support for GMAIL (IMAP) in Windows Vista Mail?

Do you want to migrate your email from another email client to Gmail? If so, you can now take advantage of IMAP support in Gmail. Here is how to configure Windows Mail to connect to Gmail. Once you have it configured, it is easy to migrate emails from Outlook. Simply...

Tags: Google Gmail, Microsoft Windows Vista, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Steven Warren

Blog posts 2008-03-27

How private is your Web-based service?

As I have said many times before, the two major components of security are privacy and control over your resources. Each of these plays a part in the other. Remote Web-based service providers are generally concerned about controlling their resources. Using such a Web-based service means that...

Tags: Web, MSN Hotmail, Privacy, Service Provider, Service, Business Services, E-mail, Channel Management, E-mail Providers, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Internet, Chad Perrin

Blog posts 2008-02-15

Gmail IMAP now works with Windows Mobile

Google has fixed a problem that Windows Mobile users had with its IMAP implementation for Gmail, which was rolled out in October of 2007. The fix is on the server side and requires no additional configuration, according to a Google spokeswoman. The previous problem materialized in...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, E-mail Providers, Software, Hardware, Internet, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Use AIM from Gmail

Google has integrated AIM messenger into its Gmail Web mail service, making it possible for users to chat with their AIM colleagues alongside their GTalk buddies. An excerpt from the GmailBlog: Today we are happy to tell you about a new feature we've started to roll...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, AOL Instant Messenger, E-mail Providers, Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Boxbe's E-mail by Invitation

Boxbe is a free service that allows you to manage the messages that you receive in your inbox. Boxbe now works with Outlook, Yahoo Mail, and Gmail. by Sonja Thompson

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Boxbe, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, Microsoft Office, Internet, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Sonja Thompson, news, email, filtering

Image galleries 2007-11-29

Say good-bye to spam for good with Boxbe

About a month ago, I discovered Boxbe... by accident. It was one of those rare "wow" moments that happens when you run across something that you haven't seen before and that you think has unlimited potential. What is Boxbe? The Web site, http://boxbe.com/ says that you can...

Tags: Message, Boxbe, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Podcasts, Security, Online Communications, Internet, Sonja Thompson

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Hotmail users unable to send e-mail?

Forums are abuzz with Hotmail users unable to send e-mails from their accounts. What miffs users more is that they are unable to find a direct contact at Microsoft to report the problem. An excerpt from iTwire: According to a consultant who contacted iTWire, the...

Tags: MSN Hotmail, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Online Communications, Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Is "Live Documents" a new service or something new to sell to Microsoft?

The term "Microsoft Killer" is thrown about a lot, and at various times it has been used to describe everything from $199 Linux-based PCs at Wal-Mart to open-file formats. With a company as big as Microsoft, I really don't think that there is anything on the horizon that could...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Live Documents Site, Microsoft Office, Blogging, E-mail Providers, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Andy Moon

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Hotmail founder announces online offline productivity suite, Live Documents

Sabeer Bhatia, the founder of Hotmail (which he sold to Microsoft for $400 million in 1998), announced his new company, Live Documents, an online offline productivity suite that also supports integration with Microsoft office. An excerpt from PC Pro: Like Google Docs and Microsoft's Office Live...

Tags: MSN Hotmail, Microsoft Corp., Productivity Suite, Instacoll, Live Documents Web Site, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Office, Internet, Office Suites, Software, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-11-26

What if Microsoft designed Gmail

I came across something light-hearted today and thought I'd share it with you folks. Simply put: Google Blogoscoped seems to think they have Microsoft all figured out. Excerpt from Google Blogoscoped: Another security measurement we’ll add is that you won’t be able to log-in with...

Tags: Security, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Providers, Internet, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-11-24

Gmail 2.0 gets the thumbs down

Google's Gmail upgrade is being ridiculed in an increasing number of forums due to various problems. According to users whose accounts have been upgraded to Gmail 2.0, the new Gmail downloads e-mail slowly, fails to load pages, and also crashes browsers. According to Network World:...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Gmail 2.0, E-mail Providers, Internet, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-11-19

Gmail gets IMAP: Not quite worldwide?

After years of using Gmail my one wish has come true; IMAP mailbox access.I never quite understood why Google decided to give POP3 access to their mailboxes but held back on IMAP. Maybe it was because the labeling system proved difficult to translate in to folders? A more...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, IMAP, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Internet, Office Suites, Software, Justin Fielding

Blog posts 2007-11-06

IMAP coming to Gmail

There's no word yet on the official schedule or road map for IMAP support in Gmail. Google appears to be doing a silent rollout of this feature. Some users already have it, but others don't. You can check if your account is IMAP-enabled by looking...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, IMAP, E-mail Providers, Internet, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Google announces more Gmail storage

Google is giving out more free storage by speeding up the speed of the Gmail counter. The announcement was made by Rob Siemborski, an engineer on Google's Webmail services, on the official Gmail blog. Excerpt from the blog entry: In April 2005, we...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, E-mail Providers, Storage, Internet, Hardware, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-10-12

Yahoo teams up with eBay and PayPal to fight phishing attacks

Yahoo is teaming up with eBay and its PayPal unit to block fake e-mails that are targeted towards Yahoo Mail users. Yahoo's own technology called DomainKeys is being used to authenticate the senders of e-mails. A quote from the article at Reuters: The technology upgrade will...

Tags: Team, DomainKeys, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Mail, PayPal, eBay Inc., E-mail Providers, E-mail, Phishing, Spam, Internet, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-10-04

New features may be coming to Gmail

Rumors have surfaced that new features in Gmail are in the works, and they may be a face-lift to the popular Web mail since its arrival in 2004. Two posts at Wired point to the new features that are expected to arrive in Gmail. ...

Tags: Google Gmail, E-mail Providers, Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-09-27

Vulnerabilities in Gmail, Picasa, and Google Search Appliance

The Webosphere is buzzing with news of vulnerabilities in Gmail, Google's immensely popular Web mail service. The new vulnerabilities let hackers set up a kind of back-door entry into a user's account that could lead to the forwarding of e-mails to another e-mail address. More vulnerabilities have also surfaced in...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Google Gmail, Search Appliance, Vulnerability, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Google Picasa, Flaw, Webosphere, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Security, Internet, Online Communications, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-09-27