Posts Tagged with ‘free-email’

It looks like Google is absolutely positive that Gmail users are very lazy and not exactly intelligent as the Gmail team seems to be determined to help us do everything related to every single email correctly. It looks like the team has been particularly active making sure no one will even be able to make any common emailing mistakes when using the free email system by Google. There were a few examples of this activity recently with a few new [...]

Do you have any special feelings about your very first email account? I myself remember mine perfectly well: I had to go to an internet café to register my first account as I did not have any internet connection at home at the time. This was back in 2002 and I remember that day very well though I don’t remember why exactly I had a need in an email account.
But if there is one thing I am sure of it [...]

Today there’s a very interesting story on The New Your Times blog that grabbed my attention because of its title - “Rumor Control: Why I Can’t Put “Tibet” in My Hotmail Address”. In the article David Gallagher references a reader who attempted to register an email address containing the word “Tibet” in it (it has something to do with his book about Tibet) on Hotmail but failed because the ID chosen contained “a word or phrase that is not allowed”.
The [...]

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 [...]

Multinational media holding Naspers Limited has acquired 30% stake in Port.ru for $ 165 million. Port.ru owns one of the largest Internet portals - Mail.ru. Mail.ru is definitely the best-known and one of the most visited Russian portals: it receives 3 million unique visitors daily and about two billion monthly page views. Mail.ru is also ranked as the number one e-mail provider for Russian-speaking community.
You could definitely tell that email has almost nothing to do with Web 2.0. Sure, I can [...]