Posts Tagged with ‘Hotmail’

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 [...]

Gmail has been both savior and demon for me. As the person who regularly gets the “you are over your email quota” emails on the free email account provided by my ISP, Gmail lets me go months without ever having to think about cleaning out my inbox. Of course, that means I go months without ever weeding through all the emails in there, and whether I hit a storage ceiling or not, it leads to one huge mess.
Gmail has an [...]

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 [...]

Ziggs announced yesterday that the Ziggs People HubTM would allow online users a free utility for organizing the Internet around their people, their work and their lives. The people hub allows users to customize their own hub for organizing and communicating with people and assisting with managing a variety of online activities central to professional life.
Tim DeMello, founder and CEO of Ziggs, said, “The Internet has proven to be a great way for people to connect. Web 2.0 capabilities [...]