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Yahoo Mail is down for a sizable chunk of users and the company is working to fix the outage. This is another black mark against the company, which has seen its revenue slide, is selling off beloved web properties and is generally struggling to remain relevant. Read more »

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Hotmail, known as Windows Live Hotmail these days, has a long history as a free, web-based email service. Many people have abandoned Hotmail for Gmail and Yahoo Mail, but it’s still more of a focal point at Microsoft than you may think. Read more »

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As announced on the Gmail Blog, the folks at Google have added an important update to Gmail: mail and contact import features for everyone. Somewhat annoyingly, these features were previously available for newly created Gmail accounts, but were not available for the many of us who […] Read more »

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Yahoo, I’ve learned, is planning to launch a new program that essentially turns its email offering into a platform on which to run applications — much in the same way Facebook does. Users’ address books would act as a social graph, essentially turning Yahoo Mail into the basis of a whole new social networking experience. Leveraging email infrastructure, as I’ve noted before, is the best hope a company like Yahoo has to challenge the social networking incumbents. Read more »

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Although I prefer and primarily use Gmail for the majority of my email needs, I do connect it via IMAP to Microsoft Outlook as well. And while there are many options available to extend the functionality of Microsoft Outlook including taglocity and Clear Context, Xobni is […] Read more »

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A little over a year ago, I made a big mistake. I moved from Gmail to Yahoo Mail. As a web worker, a large part of my day is spent in my inbox, so it wasn’t a decision I made willy-nilly. When the new version of […] Read more »

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How much do you rely upon services that are out of your control?  If you’re like most web workers it’s probably quite a bit.  We covered this topic in January, but the recent failures of Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft Live Hotmail have resurfaced the call to […] Read more »

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Nope, Starbucks isn’t dumping T-Mobile out with the old coffee grinds. According to an AT&T press release, Starbucks is adding AT&T wireless service to their java locations, but a separate Starbucks release indicates that T-Mobile customers won’t be left in the cold.For AT&T folks, here’s the […] Read more »

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The world has a better glimpse into the bloody skirmishes between pro-democracy protesters and the military government in Myanmar, thanks to video sharing sites like YouTube. Despite a reported government block on Internet access, people are getting pictures and video taken with mobile phones past the […] Read more »

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The new issue of Business 2.0 has started shipping, and I am frankly quite excited about this one. Many reasons – the first being that I wrote the cover story, The New Road To Riches (See Cover), which is about how tiny start-ups are shunning venture […] Read more »