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Sony Ericsson warns of hoax
"Please be wary" 12 May 2009 13:20 GMT
Sony Ericsson has contacted Pocket-lint to warn our readers of a hoax that's currently doing the rounds on email.

The phone manufacturer says it's been made aware of the email "campaign" claiming that Ericsson will give away a free laptop computer to users...
AOL offers new homepage
With email and social networking built in 12 May 2009 11:38 GMT
AOL UK has announced the beta launch of its new homepage that, similar to its recent AOL Mail revamp, will let users access multiple email accounts and social networking services from a single online destination.

Open to third-party services and content, the...
WeROK free mobile phone Wi-Fi portal announced
From ROK and WeFi 27 April 2009 15:14 GMT
WeROK, a Wi-Fi powered mobile portal including "low-cost" texting and free mobile phone services, has been announced.

Coming at Symbian S60 3rd Edition phone owners, the service, from ROK and WeFi offers the afore-mentioned low-cost SMSing, mobile email services,...
T-Mobile intros one-off payment for BlackBerry email
Can students be tempted to adopt the Pearl with this latest email deal? 23 April 2009 10:30 GMT
Whilst RIM's BlackBerry Pearl handset brought push email to a market away from merely corporate business users, T-Mobile are hoping their latest package will remove the pricing barriers which have previously made some people think twice before committing.

"Pay...
Nokia Messaging by Orange announced
E75 to get push email this summer 16 April 2009 15:09 GMT
Orange and Nokia have announced they are to offer a new, "simple-to-use" email service for consumers.

The co-branded "Nokia Messaging by Orange" will be available on a range of around 30 of Orange's "Signature" devices.

Launching first in the UK...
Virgin Media offers own-brand Gmail
@virginmedia.com email address available now 15 April 2009 9:36 GMT
Virgin Media has announced it is to offer "enhanced email services" to its 4 million home broadband customers in partnership with Google.

The broadband, phone and cable company says the new Google-powered @virginmedia.com email service will be one of the largest...
VIDEO: New Gmail for iPhone and Android-powered devices
Improved service 8 April 2009 9:39 GMT
Google has made some improvements to Gmail for mobile - for those with iPhones or Android-based devices.

As well as tweaks to make using the service easier on a mobile screen, Google says this version of Gmail will be a lot faster for opening an email, navigating,...
Gmail offers "search autocomplete"
Google makes its webmail search "lazier" 3 April 2009 14:49 GMT
Google is offering a new experimental Gmail feature via its Gmail Labs called "Search Autocomplete".

Turning on Search Autocomplete from the Labs tab under Gmail settings will mean users get suggestions as they type in the search box.

With one...
Sky offers "Never Miss" reminder service
You can forget to remember 26 March 2009 11:10 GMT
Sky has announced the launch of "Never Miss", an online reminder service which sends email notifications to viewers when their favourite movies or TV series will be on.

By registering with the service, viewers can select and track their fave shows or movies...
iLane reads your email to you on the go
Connects to your BlackBerry to keep you up to date 23 March 2009 17:02 GMT
A new device has been developed by Intelligent Mechatronic Systems that will help you keep in touch with your email while you're on the go.

The iLane, designed for use in the car, will alert you when you receive a new email and even read it out to you as well...
Gmail intros "undo send" option
Get 5 seconds grace 20 March 2009 9:27 GMT
Google has introduced a Labs feature for Gmail that gives you 5 seconds grace if you change your mind about sending an email.

Gmail users who enable the feature will be able to "undo" sending an email up to 5 seconds after they've hit the fateful "send" icon,...
T-Mobile launches Instant Email service
Get your email direct to your phone for £3.50 a month 16 March 2009 12:57 GMT
T-Mobile has launched Instant Email, a new way for customers to access email directly from their mobile phone.

The service will cost £3.50 a month, and will see personal emails being delivered straight to your phone, with no need to log on to the Internet or...
Hotmail rolls out POP3 technology worldwide
Get Hotmail directly to your desktop and phone 13 March 2009 13:56 GMT
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 UK being the first...
Social networking overtakes email use
With Facebook unsurprisingly leader of the pack 10 March 2009 12:01 GMT
A survey by Nielsen has found that social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are now proving more popular with web users than personal email.

In the UK alone, Nielsen found that 1 in every 6 minutes a web user is online, is spent on a social networking...
Gmail suffers another glitch in service
Gfail 2.0? 10 March 2009 9:43 GMT
Google's Gmail has experienced a break in service once again, just weeks after the email service crashed leaving its users stranded without email.

Following the service's 2 hour outage in late February, more issues are being reported this morning, Tuesday 10...
Twe2 brings Twitter SMS alerts back to UK
Get @Replies and DMs to your inbox for free 6 March 2009 10:14 GMT
UK users of micro-blogging site Twitter will now once again be able to receive free Twitter SMS alerts informing them of @Replies and direct messages free of charge.

Twitter users in the US, Canada and India have had this functionality for a while, but it was...
Vodafone to offer Microsoft's "Online Services"
Bundled with voice and data plans 26 February 2009 12:33 GMT
Microsoft and Vodafone have announced that Vodafone will offer businesses a "single communications and collaboration solution composed of fixed and mobile voice and data, customer equipment and handsets, and Microsoft Online Services".

This team-up will mean...
Google explains Gmail glitch
Data centre issues caused outage 25 February 2009 13:07 GMT
Further to the company's official apology for the Gmail outage that left users of the free webmail service without access to their accounts for around 2 hours on Tuesday, Google has updated the community on what went wrong.

Updating a blog post on the topic,...
Gmail users hit by phishing chat attack
Hackers target Google Chat 25 February 2009 12:25 GMT
It's been a bad 24 hours for Google's Gmail.

First there was Tuesday's outage that left both businesses and individuals with no access to emails for a number of hours. Now IT security firm Sophos is warning Gmail users about phishing attacks targeting them,...
Gmail back up, Google "sorry"
"We apologize for the inconvenience" 24 February 2009 14:18 GMT
Google has apologised after its Gmail email service went down for a number of hours on Tuesday.

Although the Search Engine has failed to give a reason, as yet, to what caused thousands of Gmail users to be without the free beta service it has said the problem...
Five ways to communicate without email
There are other ways to talk 24 February 2009 12:00 GMT
Panic! That's right your email has gone down so now what do you do? Well, thanks to the wonders of the Internet there are plenty of ways you can stay in touch with the world if you're not up for actually leaving your computer for 10 minutes while the problem is fixed.
Google Gmail service down
Time to make a cup of tea? 24 February 2009 10:33 GMT
Email users opting to use Google's Gmail email service were thrown into a panic as the service went down on Tuesday.

"Gmail down, PANIC STATIONS, PANIC STATIONS. Or I could go and make a cuppa, I suppose", summed up the cries on Twitter as users looked at communicating...
Emoze pushes Windows Live Hotmail
MWC 2009: "For everyman" 18 February 2009 14:39 GMT
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 Hotmail, other web-based...
Lenovo ThinkPads to offer BlackBerry email sync
"Constant Connect" updates email via Bluetooth 16 February 2009 14:22 GMT
Lenovo and Research In Motion have announced that the two companies will work together to offer a "tighter integration" of Lenovo's ThinkPads and RIM's BlackBerrys.

The companies plan to promote new Lenovo mobile solutions that they say will help on-the-go business...
Gmail adds location option
Tell people where you're at 11 February 2009 10:45 GMT
Gmail has added a Labs feature that lets you add your location to your email signature.

Developed by Marco Bonechi, a Google software engineer in his "20% time", the feature detects your location and appends the city region and country names to your signature.