The "Let's Talk iPhone" Apple press conference is imminent, so the team turns its immediate attention to the iPhone 5, no, hang on, er, the iPhone 4S, nope, bugger, Tim Cook's possible catchphrase. Oh, you get the picture.

Also on the agenda...

Microsoft has released an official Hotmail application for Android, and Pocket-lint was invited to the company's London headquarters to check it out in advance of its public unveiling.

Demonstrated by Bryan Saftler, Hotmail product manager,...

While the Hotmail application for Android handsets and tablets is now available, it's only a matter of time before Apple iPhone and iPad owners will be able to integrate Hotmail email accounts with their devices too. However, it won't be released in...

Microsoft is in the process of relaunching its Hotmail email service with the bold and intriguing mission statement: "Hotmail Starts the War on Graymail". After having successfully reduced the amount of spam messages that you will receive in your inbox...

Passwords that even a cat could hack are set to be banned from Hotmail after users continue to use weak letter combinations to protect their accounts.

Things like 'password' and 'ilovecats' are out, with new users having to use properly complex...

Microsoft has announced that Hotmail is in for a major overhaul with an array of new features that it hopes will put pressure on its webmail rivals such as Gmail.

The best new feature, by far, is the Active View function. What this means for...

Microsoft currently hosts around 1.3 billion Hotmail inboxes, according to statistics just released from the software giant, that make fascinating reading for anyone interested in an at-a-glance look at the once-seminal webmail service.

In...

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...

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...

Microsoft has announced new Windows Phone applications, partners for future launches and new designer wallpaper themes for its mobile platform at the CTIA Wireless event in the States.

Headlining the news, the company has revealed that EA...

Microsoft has announced that free POP3 technology has now been rolled out to Hotmail accounts worldwide.

The process of launching POP3 technology for free for the online email program kicked off in January with nine countries including the...

Emoze is using the Mobile World Congress event to promote its service that pushes Windows Live Hotmail to your mobile device.

Said to be simple, once users have downloaded Emoze to their mobile, they will get mobile access to Windows Live...

As part of its Nokia World announcements, Nokia has announced the launch of Nokia Messaging, which will give consumers access to email and IM accounts from Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail, Google Talk, and AOL Mail as well...

Sony Ericsson has launched two new "panels" for the Xperia X1, teaming up with Facebook and Microsoft Windows Live.

The new Facebook application built for Sony Ericsson uses the panel-based interface of the Xperia X1 to deliver an "intuitive"...

Microsoft has realised that it is unable to take on the combined force of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and instead decided to become an aggregator of content with its latest update to its Windows Live service.

"It's...