Tag: E MAIL

Gmail is actually still the new kid on the block when it comes to e-mail. It launched in 2004, but has only been open to the public since 2007. By comparison Yahoo! and Hotmail have been offering electronic communication since 1997, and non-Web mail services predate that by almost two decades, so its safe to assume that you probably have e-mail sitting around in some other account that predates ...

Apparently this year, the e-card business, those obnoxious animated things sent by distant family members and formerly tech-savvy friends who stopped learning about new technology in 1997, is taking a massive financial beating. Apparently no one is sending them (someone should tell our inbox, we're still getting quite a few), no one is reading them (guilty as charged), and no one is willing to ...

Here's one that's bound to get your tinfoil hats in bunch. Mike Connell, a former senior White House IT worker, and key witness in an investigation surrounding an alternate (read: secret) White House communication system and an election fraud case in Ohio, has died after his private single engine plane went down on his way to DC last week on Friday night (December 19). Connell was responsible ...

As if you didn't feel bad enough about yourself after being taken in by that e-mail from the Nigerian prince enlisting your help to gain access to nonexistent millions, now you've got to worry about guarding yourself against a scam targeted at those who have already fallen victim to Internet con-men. Those infinitely malleable 419 scams that harvest personal info from the less cautious among ...

Listen closely, we don't want to have to repeat this again: Revenge-hacking your employer's servers is not a good idea. Whether it's a crappy desk location or an unpleasant termination, hacking is never an appropriate method of recourse. Steven Barnes has been arrested and sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to hacking an Exchange Server run by his former employer, Akimbo ...

If you've been getting most of your information this election cycle via the Internet and e-mail, chances are you've come across a series of rumors about the candidates that are just flatly false. The nature of the Web spreads the flames of these lies like the Santa Ana Winds during the dry season. The candidates are fighting back as quickly as possible by using the Web themselves. Obama has a ...

The wily, if careless, hacker who weaseled his way into Governor Palin's private Yahoo! e-mail account may now be in the cross-hairs of the FBI. According to witnesses on the scene, the apartment of David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee who is suspected of the hack, was raided by the FBI after the agency obtained a search warrant. The agents broke up a party to search the ...

Remember all those e-mails that went missing at the White House? The Bush administration is hoping you don't. According to an internal memo leaked to the Associate Press (AP) the government is pushing forward with its recovery "effort" the only way it knows how -- completely half-assed. According to the memo, the White House is missing as much as 225 days worth of e-mail that just so happen to ...

Yahoo! Mail has been around a long time. As a consequence, getting yourself an e-mail address that isn't a non-sequitur followed by 17 digits (we hear that H0r53D1aper374689@Yahoo.com is still available!) is darn near impossible. So to better serve its customers, Yahoo! is opening up two new domains for registering e-mails: @YMail.com and @RocketMail.com. Rocket Mail was actually snapped up by ...

For a society so obsessed with productivity, we're pretty bad at actually being productive. Sure, services such as Google and Wikipedia have been described as being time hogs, but apparently the real killer is multitasking. 2008 is being dubbed the "year of information overload" by Basex Inc., a research firm. The human brain is not hardwired for paying attention to several things at once or ...

Facebook's status updates are fun and interesting, but the inclusion of the word 'is' rubs some people the wrong way. Trying to form proper English sentences with the phrase "so-and-so is" is limiting and sometimes difficult. Regardless, some have simply chosen to ignore it, leading to clunkers like "Devika is what me worry" that make us shudder... Others have taken a more proactive approach, ...

You've probably seen it -- it's an e-mail going around that claims all cell phone numbers are about to be released to telemarketers. According to the e-mail, the only way to avoid getting cold calls about switching your long distance carrier on your mobile is to register your phone number with the federal government's Do Not Call Registry. The FCC has been quick to point out, however, that this ...

Staying on top of the latest delays and service changes related to your daily commute is almost impossible, but not being in the know can often have serious negative consequences on your schedule. Many local transportation systems send out their own alerts, but they tend to be overly general, often late, and usually only sent out under the most extreme of circumstances. That's where Joshua ...

Mobile, instant, always-on access to everyone you know is the new obnoxious forefront in communications technology. A new start-up calling itself Trumpia, has decided to take the obsession with constant communication to its absurd illogical extreme. Sign up with Trumpia, then betray your own sense of decency by inputting all of your friends' contact info ... and we mean all of it. Input, e-mail, ...

If you received an e-mail today from a deposed Nigerian prince offering you millions of dollars in exchange for just a few thousand up front, would you immediately recognize this as one of the oldest e-mail scams in the book? (So old, in fact, that it led 'Dateline' and Chris Hanson to franchise 'To Catch a Predator' into 'To Catch a Con Man.') If you didn't catch the scam, you're not alone. ...