Tag: E-MAIL

As CBS reports, Ronald Reagan's son Michael has launched his very own @Reagan e-mail service in an attempt to provide a safe haven for "people who believe in true Reagan Conservative Values." Why, what ever do you mean, Michael Reagan? "What do I mean? Well, every time you use your e-mail from companies like Google, AOL, Yahoo!, Hotmail, Apple and others, you are helping the liberals," he ...

As mobile technology grows, it seems, so do the dangers of driving. First, we got talking while driving, which, though irritating, rarely results in more than an exceptionally slow driver. Then, we started seeing the evidence of texting while driving -- the swerving, the stoplight-running, etc. Well, now, with the smartphone, we have to deal with those bewildering types who have the gall to ...

As if folks on the Gulf Coast don't have enough worries already, phishing (and, sadly, not fishing) is now plaguing Florida. According to a Reuters report, many Floridians have received an e-mail from scam artists posing as BP CEO Tony Hayward. In the e-mail, the fake Hayward claims the recipient is eligible for a $500,000 grant from BP in exchange for personal information. To spread the ...

Forget its tumbling currency and stagnant labor market. Europe has another issue far more important: spam. Lots and lots of spam. According to a recently released report from security firm Sophos, the Old World has just surpassed Asia as the world's leading spam continent, accounting for more than a third of all junk e-mail sent during the second quarter of 2010. Among individual European ...

For those who miss (and can still remember) the quaint thrill of receiving honest-to-goodness snail mail in their mailbox, manufacturer Brando, known for what may be the world's smallest mouse, has made the USB Mailbox Friends Alert. The miniaturized plastic mailbox connects via USB to a user's computer, syncing via software to a variety of common e-mail programs (Yahoo, Gmail, Outlook and POP3 ...

Supreme Court nominees have always been subjected to perhaps the most intense vetting process of any political official. But arguably no other candidate has been under the kind of microscopic scrutiny that Elena Kagan now faces, thanks to an organization that has opened up her inbox for all the world to explore. Created by the watchdog group Sunlight Foundation, 'Elena's Inbox' is an online ...

The iPad has only been in circulation for a couple of months, but the device has already fallen prey to a major cyber attack, thanks to a gap in AT&T's security system. According to Gawker, a group of hackers recently succeeded in exploiting a security hole in AT&T's website, and walked away with the e-mails and ID numbers of over 114,000 iPad users. The list of those targeted by the ...

Hewlett-Packard announced yesterday a new line of printers that have their own e-mail addresses in an attempt to breathe new life into printing. Rather than connect a device to the printer, you can simply e-mail a document, photo or PDF to one of HP's new machines, and it will be waiting in the printer's tray when you get home. The company hopes these new printers, which will be released over the ...

Share One of Gmail's most polarizing features is its 'Conversations' format, which groups long e-mail exchanges under the same, single subject line. Some users prefer the format to traditional e-mail displays, and even point to it as Gmail's defining feature. Others, meanwhile, have long insisted that the message grouping only makes it easier to miss new e-mails [Ed. Note: Those people are ...

We're sure Al Gore is drafting his thank-you letter to CNN right now as we speak. The 24-hour news channel carelessly revealed the former Vice President's e-mail address to the entire Web-viewing public. In an article covering the announcement of Al and Tipper Gore's separation, the network linked to a PDF copy of the e-mail announcing the break up. While CNN took care to black out the text of Al ...

Share Although Gmail has only been around since 2004, it's gathered enough steam in recent years to come within arm's length of Hotmail as the world's top e-mail service. With Google hot on its trail, then, Microsoft has decided to unveil a new version of its mail provider, and, according to early reports, it's aiming straight for Gmail's jugular. On Wednesday, Microsoft revealed its response ...

Share Not many people enjoy lying, and even fewer people enjoy admitting to it. But try as we might, most of us have had to do it at one point or another. There are several complex explanations for why humans fib, but a group of researchers recently found that our weapon of choice may play a role in altering the truth. A study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology finds that people ...

Share The Internet is insecure by its very nature. As our recent interview subject Jeff Moss pointed out, the Net wasn't designed with security in mind, so we're still playing catch-up more than a decade later. Still, there are a lot of -- okay, we'll say it -- needlessly stupid things we do (on and off the Internet) that put our most prized data at risk. That includes e-mails, chats, ...

From now on, Gmail users won't have to go digging around their hard drives to manually attach files to e-mails, nor will they be forced to twiddle their thumbs while waiting for the attachments to upload. That's because Google has introduced a new "drag and drop" attachment feature for those Gmail users who employ either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox 3.6. It means pretty much what it says: all ...

There are geek t-shirts and ridiculous wearable gadgets, and then there is this, occupying some weird middle ground. This t-shirt boasts an embedded micro-controller that communicates with an Android smartphone via Bluetooth in order to alert you of incoming e-mails. The shirt has LEDs that light up, telling you exactly how many messages are currently waiting for your discerning delete finger -- ...