Email and other communications technologies are supposed to make us more productive. But has the pendulum swung so far that these tools are now a productivity drain?
Many large tech companies are worried that it has. That’s why IBM, Intel, Google, Microsoft and more than a dozen other companies and academic institutions have come together to […]
Modern nomads carry almost no paper because they access their documents on their laptop computers, mobile phones or online. Increasingly, they don’t even bring laptops. Many engineers at Google, the leading internet company and a magnet for nomads, travel with only a BlackBerry, iPhone or other “smart phone”. If ever the need arises for a […]
RED BANK, N. J., April 16, 2008 — BigString Corporation (OTCBB: BSGC)
today unveiled a new self-destructing instant messaging technology that
enables users to send instant messages (IMs) that self-destruct after
being sent. Additionally, IMs sent via BigString’s service cannot be
copied, logged or screen-printed. BigString IM is a free advertising
supported service available at http://www.bigstring.com. It is
available as a […]
“…one mistaken click of the mouse began an ordeal that would overtake Petersen’s in-box for several minutes—thrusting the history major into an HTML-formatted world she “never intended to see.”
E-Mail From Aunt Accidentally Opened | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
If you’re using dialup or a slow DSL connection, you might be happier using Gmail’s older version, as it’s much faster on a slow connection. Click the link to “Older version” on the upper right of the Gmail toolbar.
After that page has loaded, you can drag the icon from your Firefox address bar onto the […]
E-mail is a good target for developing a semantic search engine because users frequently repeat certain phrasings and words and repeatedly exchange the same type of information.
PC World - IBM Offers Free E-Mail Search Tool
Google is rolling out a centralized profile system that will provide personalized information to each Google product you use. The unimaginatively named Google Profile will share information across all Google products, unifying often disparate Google systems that logins aside haven’t previously shared data with each other.
Google Starts Rolling Out Centralized Profiles
Logical step. I’m sure the […]
The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle. It is likely to shape the prosperity and progress of both companies, and also inform how consumers and corporations work, shop, communicate and go about their digital lives. Google sees all of this happening on remote servers in faraway data centers, […]
What would be the differences in that web mail client for users today? What if we apply some of the same design rules that brought us Hotmail, for instance? … What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
I keep seeing references to the various sites where you can get a one-time-only email address to use for sign-ups that you suspect may spam you after the fact.
The only problem with those sorts of solutions is the possibility that you may miss a site that’s a baddie, thus revealing your “real” address to the […]
From the Gmail blog comes info on why Gmail has been a bit odd for the past few days. (It’s a good thing.)
Code changes to prepare Gmail for the future
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Like its namesake, the Great Firewall consists of hundreds of individual fortifications spread out along a vulnerable frontier. At its core is a giant bank of computers and servers. Traffic generated by China’s 162 million Internet users is routed through the shield, which checks all requested URLs against a blacklist of tens of thousands of […]
Google finally does it:
I’ve seen countless blog posts, requests, chats, and just about everything else asking, “Are you guys ever going to do IMAP?” Well now I can say: Yes. Yes, we are doing IMAP. In fact, we are doing it for you for free on all devices and platforms.
Official Gmail Blog: Sync your inbox […]
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