Posts Tagged with ‘email’

I'm a texter.  I'm addicted.  I actually prefer texting to phone calls; you can talk to seven people at once as opposed to just one, and SMS messages tend to cut down on conversational fluff that saps your precious time.  Because most people aren't addicted like me, they don't care to shoot the breeze with their fingers.  In fact, that tends to mean they don't text me at all, but leave me voicemail after voicemail, in spite of the fact [...]

I have been using Twitter for a while now, and it is quite a useful tool. I don't know that it is an indispensable utility that I depend on, but it does help generate short conversations and has many other helpful uses.
With any new communication tool that pops up on the web nowadays, there are sure to be spammers and others who exploit the good intentions of others, which is why today's story at TechCrunch concerning spam on Twitter [...]

I got the opportunity to speak with Peter Adams -CEO of Matchpoint on Thursday of last week. Matchpoint is a fairly revolutionary startup aimed at improving both ends of the Internet advertising spectrum. Matchpoint allows consumers to search for businesses that are radically more relevant to their needs. With some modification, this type of search/suggestion innovation could very well rival Adsense and especially banner ads for certain businesses. Essentially, Matchpoint provides a win-win solution for advertisers and customers.
Peter [...]

The LeWeb 3 conference is underway, and since we highlighted yesterday a couple of startups slated to walk the stage at the event, we figure, why not another?
The next company we profile, dubbed eXo Platform, is a company with a diverse number of holdings in the Web software space. From developments in the realm of cloud-based operating systems, to specially-designed applications and utilities (email, client management, etc.), to those nifty little things we call widgets.
Having taken several glances at [...]

You know, you really want to root for the underdog. You think, okay, Google’s basking in its record profits and empirical glory, so you’ll take a little time to cheer it’s Sunnyvale-based foe, Yahoo!, regardless of whether it’s really got anything in its arsenal to rejoice over.
But it’s getting so effin’ hard to throw a good word out for Number Two these days. First there was the China debacle it got slapped by a US congressional panel for a [...]

Google has announced today that users of its free email service will now have the option of enabling IMAP support to access their email from more places.
For those of you who may not know, IMAP is an internet protocol that allows a local client to access email on a remote server. Perhaps the most beneficial feature is the ability to access one email inbox from multiple clients.
For Gmail users, this means now being able to sync your inbox [...]

AOL is the latest company that has jumped on the mobile bandwagon, with new services targeted at users of the mobile web being launched at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment event taking place this week in San Francisco.
In today's press release, AOL announced several new mobile services which are “designed to create rich mobile experiences that take customization, ease-of-use and experience-sharing to a new level.” [...]

From June 2004 to May 2005, an estimated 73 million US adults said they definitely, or think, received an average of more than 50 phishing e-mails in the past year. According to the FTC, email has quickly become the number one method of contact for scams. In August 2007 alone, PhishTank verified almost 9,000 phishing scams out of 12,490 submitted.
For these reasons and more three major websites have announced a "collaborative effort to better protect consumers against fraudulent e-mails and [...]

A fantastic new communications interface called Pronto! just emerged from the secret vault of CommuniGate. Pronto! is being unveiled today in Chicago at Adobe Max - the premier experience for Adobe users worldwide. Pronto is a RIA net communications dashboard that quite honestly blew me away. A good friend (Brian Blank of Future-Works) sent us a sneak peek at this refreshing tool that combines email, calendaring, IM, media player and even web/blog editing software in a tight package. Before you [...]