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...

Old-school users of Google's free webmail service in the UK might remember that in the first half of the 00s, the service shared a "Gmail" name with the rest of the world.

However, a trademark dispute meant that from 19 October, 2005, Gmail...

At the SxSWi festival in Austin, Texas, Google has admitted that Gmail can be too slow, but promised to fix that, as well as throwing a bone to people who get irritated switching between a regular Google account and a Google Apps account.

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Perhaps you love Xobni, the plugin for Outlook which pulls in data and statistics about your contacts and displays them in a handy toolbar. Perhaps you also love Gmail, Google's webmail client that offers a boatload of storage and access from anywhere...

Google has taken inventory of the features present in the Labs section of its Gmail product and graduated a selection to full-time use, while removing others. The reasoning is that the Labs portion of Gmail had started to get a bit crowded - with more...

It's being suggested that Facebook is planning to take on the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in launching a webmail service to replace its increasingly-dilapidated messaging interface.

According to sources quoted by TechCrunch, the social...

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.

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Yahoo Mail has announced the global availability of the new version of Yahoo Mail.

This latest version provides consumers with the ability to chat in real time with users of Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger, via an...