Cooperation is a rare thing in the cut-throat world of technology, but some of the world’s biggest email providers are teaming up to help cut the incidence of phishing scams. More »
What happens when you reply to an email in which the entire German parliament is looped in? You send that mail server into complete and utter chaos, which, I would assume, brings der legislative machine to a screeching halt. More »
In a radical privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users across all services — email, search, YouTube and more — sharing information with no option to opt out. More »
The alarm goes off. You roll over, bleary eyed and turn it off. You sigh — it’s another day of work. You pick up your smartphone — it’s 6am, but you decide you should probably check what important emails have come through overnight. You respond to a couple of urgent requests before stumbling out of bed and hopping in the shower. And if you were in Brazil, you’ve just earned yourself a nice little bit of overtime… More »
Marketers. Exes. Bosses who somehow got ahold of your personal email address. Sure, you could make a filter or click ‘report spam’ (as if that actually does anything…), but wouldn’t it be better if they just stopped emailing you altogether? More »
Anybody who’s worked in a cubicle is familiar the Outlook Request Read Receipt — that horrid popup that demands you confirm you have indeed read (and summarily deleted) the TSP report Ted from accounting had sent out. Now, Tout, a new email tracking app, does the same. Huzzah? More »
Everybody hates spam. Everybody hates HIV. So the fact that Microsoft is sharing its knowledge of spam filter design to help scientists fight the virus is all kinds of good. More »
This week is International Fraud Awareness Week, and there’s no better time to brush up on your skills to make sure you don’t fall for online trickery designed to fleece you or convince you to give up sensitive personal information. Here are some tips to stay safe. More »
I know. Just let me finish. It sounds crazy — Hotmail is the leper colony of email, right? The running joke, the email potato famine we all fled for Gmail a decade ago — yeah. But that was then. Hotmail is changing. More »
