Email

Email extinction predicted in 10 years

Email extinction could be a reality in the next 10 years, says TalkTalk, proclaiming the younger generation has no need for such long-winded communication.

No doubt echoing similar studies from 10 years ago that predicted the absolute death of snail mail, this...

iTunes still most popular music service by far

A survey of 2000 internet users in the UK from GfK NOP has found that iTunes still remains by far the most popular music service, but that new entrant Spotify is shooting rapidly up the charts, despite having only just celebrated its 1st birthday.

The survey asked...

MailTones iPhone app launches

Electric Pocket’s new MailTones iPhone app offers the ability to set a different email alert for each friend, family member or colleague in their address book.

In the words of the developer: "MailTones helps to distinguish high priority emails your boss...

Gmail gets updated for iPhone and Android

Google has unveiled a new version of the Gmail web interface for the iPhone and Android handsets. The last edition was released back in April, but since then the company has made a whole host of improvements, making the mobile version nearly as feature-complete as its...

Mozilla announces Raindrop communcations project

Mozilla has announced an interesting project called Raindrop, which appears massively complicated on the surface but is actually quite a simple idea when you strip it free of buzzwords.

Mozilla (like Google, with its Wave platform) says that "email isn't fun any...

VIDEO: Google explains "Going Google"

Google has released a preview of its next phase of the "Going Google" campaign that will launch across six new countries.

The campaign, to get businesses to switch over to Google's corporate solutions, has seen bill-board ads across the States.

As...

Xobni coming to more mobile platforms

Xobni is a plugin for Outlook which allows you to make more of your connections with people. Building on the theory that you're likely to email - at some point - almost everyone you know, it builds up an address book for you - tying that address book in with services...

Gmail intros "Got the wrong Bob?" Labs feature

Gmail has added a new Labs feature that users of the webmail service can opt in to, and is designed to save from the potential embarrassment of sending an email to the wrong contact.

"When's the last time you got an email from a stranger asking, 'Are you sure...

Gmail, AOL, Yahoo Mail also targeted in phishing scam

Google has confirmed that a large number of passwords to its email accounts have been stolen in an "industry-wide phishing scheme" which affects Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and a number of other service providers.

Following the news that 10,000 Hotmail...

Hotmail passwords leaked out online?

It's being reported that passwords for "thousands" of Hotmail accounts have leaked out online. An anonymous user posted details of over 10,000 accounts with user names running from A to B on a site called PasteBin, which is used by developers to share small chunks of...

Google Wave invites now available

If things at Google HQ are running according to plan, then invites for Google Wave should be going out around now. The company told the BBC that it plans to open the service to 100,000 beta testers from 1600BST on 30 September.

Each of those invited will get...

Google Wave approaches public beta

Google Wave - the company's attempt to combine IM, email, and sharing functionality into an open-source communications platform - will be rolling out to the first lot of beta testers on 30 September. If you'd like to know more, hit play on the video above for a 10-minute...

Yahoo Mail gets a revamp

Yahoo has unveiled "enhancements" to its webmail service which it says will allow its 11 million mail users in the UK "to more easily communicate with the people they really care about, share updates, and send high-quality photos".

From next month, users will...

Gmail opens mail and contact import to everyone

A couple of months back, Google added the option to import email accounts to your Gmail address - all messages and contacts. However, because it was a tool for switching to the service, it was limited to new accounts.

Now, Google's opened the functionality up...

Deleted iPhone emails findable in search

A bug has been found in the iPhone 3.0 software that means that deleted emails are still easily discoverable using the handset's search function.

To replicate the bug, pick a message with a subject line that's fairly unique and delete it. The remove it from...

Push Gmail app approved by Apple

Though you might find it hard to believe given recent media coverage, not every App sent to Apple gets denied. The vast majority are allowed through without let or hindrance. Today, you can add GPush from Tiverias Apps to that list.

The application, as previously...

Email replacement Shareflow launches

A new software service called Shareflow has launched, the creation of NYC-based company Zenbe. Until recently, Zenbe worked on little productivity tools, but this is its most impressive project so far.

Shareflow aims to let users ditch IM, email, wikis and other...

Facebook adds option to email photos and video

A new Facebook blog post is talking up a recently added option that gives users of the social networking site more ways to share images and video.

Facebook says: "We've been working on providing more ways to publish those photos and videos whether you're on...

Google Wave gets beta launch date

Google's new "Wave" service, announced in May, is to open to the public in a controlled beta program in September of this year, it's been announced.

Wave combines instant messaging, email and sharing functionality to create a potentially powerful open-source...

MySpace launching email service

Despite research, reported on Pocket-lint, that claims that young people are abandoning email in favour of social network messaging functionality, MySpace is launching a webmail service.

The launch is planned to be slow, with a full rollout taking place towards...

iPhone to get push Gmail, via an app?

MobileMe, Yahoo Mail and Exchange have had push email on the iPhone for some time, but until now, Gmail users were left out of the party. However, a developer has coded an application that could rectify that.

Push email is where emails are "pushed" to your device,...

Emails can "predict impending doom" at companies

Research into emails sent by Enron staff before the company's collapse in 2001 has yielded some intriguing results. About a month before key events happened in the history of Enron, like the resignation of the CEO, email patterns drastically changed.

Normally,...

Facebook offers "streamlined" inbox

Facebook has announced changes to the social networking site's email service, with a new, "streamlined" inbox.

Although the changes won't go far enough for some (the solution remains basic) it may help those that are members of lots of groups, or pages, with...

A quick guide to Google Wave

What is it?
It is the next possible stage in the evolution of email from Google, which has also been said to be the next biggest thing in an communication and collaboration tool for today and it runs from inside a web browser much like Gmail....

Gmail offers inbox preview

...Or on a really slow connection. Peter Balsiger, a software engineer at Google, says in a post on the Gmail blog that when he checks his personal Gmail account, "sometimes I end up checking my mail only to find nothing new there".

Balsiger's lack of personal...