Yahoo is rolling out an upgraded version of its e-mail service to its 284 million users.
Barnes & Noble has released a major update to its e-reader, Nook Color, which pushes the device far into tablet territory.
All signs point to a job market that is very slowly improving. The latest labor market figures show gains in health care, temporary work, leisure and hospitality. Headhunters say competition is heating up for talent in science, technology, engineering and math.
Twitter is testing a new People tab, positioned next to the Home, Profile and Messages tabs on the home page.
At the Web 2.0 conference, Google's CEO describes a new technology that could revolutionize the way you shop.
Google disclosed recently that its Street View project had inadvertently collected personal data, and the company has faced an onslaught of investigations from two U.S. federal agencies and several European governments.
There's a lot of talk lately about e-mail.
Facebook is launching a new product barrage aimed at capturing the heart of its 500 million users' digital lives: their inboxes.
Unless you're one of those internet hermits still jammin' around with a Hotmail address (How's 1997? Can you bring me back a slap bracelet?), you likely have a few of what you might teasingly call "stalkers."
Hotmail, the world's most widely used e-mail service, is getting a major overhaul from Microsoft in a bid to fend off competitors like Google's Gmail.
Thursday marks the sixth birthday of Google's pioneering e-mail service: Gmail.
Google said Tuesday's widespread Gmail outage occurred when the company took some servers offline to perform routine maintenance, causing its remaining routers to become overloaded with traffic.
Starting today, many "robocalls" from telemarketers will be illegal. But there are lots of other ways that telemarketers can get to you. Here is how you can tune out and reduce the solicitations.
Trisha Marcy wasn't looking for anything in particular when she decided to rummage through her mother's nightstand drawer in 1986.
Today's Internet-driven world has changed the way we look for and apply to jobs. Gone are the days of handwritten cover letters, typewriter-printed résumés and hand-delivered job applications.
Like a good citizen of the Internet, I've been carefully building and maintaining my digital address books for years. Work e-mail addresses, nonwork e-mail addresses, cellphone numbers - the whole shebang. My electronic Rolodex now holds a few hundred names - a treasure trove of people, data, and memories good and bad.
As MySpace hooks up with MTV (whose parent Viacom once tried to buy it) and Facebook makes the cover of Newsweek, it's clear that social networking is only getting hotter. (But couldn't Newsweek find Mark Zuckerberg anecdotes that hadn't already appeared in Fortune?)
Besides leaving the hospital with a birth certificate and a clean bill of health, baby Mila Belle Howells got something she won't likely use herself for several years: her very own Internet domain name.
All five of the Delaware County Community College campuses in Pennsylvania remain closed on Monday, four days after an e-mail threatening unspecified violence was received by college faculty, college officials said.
Business 2.0: E-mail rebels at workupdated: Wed Nov 15 2006 12:50:00
For years, I had a colleague who adamantly refused to use our corporate e-mail. His coworkers didn't like the nuisance of having to remember to send messages to his personal account.
Cutting out the banking middleman has long been touted as the next big thing for consumer lending.
A tiny software company called meebo Wednesday opened a new channel of communication on the Web. Now, if you have a Web page your visitors can talk to you using instant messaging, even if you're away from your home computer. (That includes all you MySpace users.)
Last fall, Google sales chief Omid Kordestani speculated on the possibility of putting Google's lucrative contextual ads on television. Now the company is moving to make Google TV a reality by listing a job opening for a product manager to oversee the effort. The company is also hiring engineers in Mountain View, Calif. and London for the project. One feature we hope they'll add: Google search that finds your remote control when it gets lost between the sofa cushions.
"If you make the product cool and people love it, it will spread like crazy and you can monetize it later." Talk like that is often ridiculed, especially by those shaken when the dotcom bubble burst.
Former Apple CEO John Sculley, Nextel and AT&T Wireless founder Craig McCaw, VOIP pioneer Jeff Pulver, and telecom banker Michael Price are backing a startup, Tello, which plans to merge instant messaging, VOIP, and cellphones.
The search engine Google is the most significant development in the 15-year history of the World Wide Web, according to a poll of CNN.com users.
Since CNN.com launched its poll to find the most significant development of the World Wide Web in the past 15 years, readers have been quick to point out their own views.
Spark looks at the top 10 "Web moments" since the World Wide Web was born 15 years ago, and asks viewers to vote for the one they think had the most impact in the Web's history.
The chairman of Microsoft is predicting a "sea change" for his industry and is urging his managers to act decisively to stay ahead of the competition, according to a leaked company e-mail.
An FBI intelligence analyst and a former official with the Philippines National Police were ordered Monday to remain jailed on charges they passed classified U.S. information to current and former members of the Filipino government.
Money Magazine: Eyes on Youupdated: Fri Jul 01 2005 00:01:00
Uh-oh, the boss is onto you. That's the message from a recent survey on workplace monitoring by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute. The key findings:
MSN's Hotmail service, which has almost 200 million users worldwide, will use Trend Micro as its antivirus software, dumping longtime partner McAfee, Trend Micro said in a statement Monday.
Search engine Google's new free e-mail service, "Gmail," is under fire from privacy groups even before it has been officially launched.
CNNMoney: You've got Gmail!updated: Thu Apr 01 2004 12:43:00
Google has already changed the world of online search. And now it looks like it's about to revolutionize e-mail too.
Planning to e-mail a Valentine to your beloved? Here's some free advice: don't do it at work.
Joichi Ito, a venture capitalist in Tokyo, knows just about everybody in tech. That's good for business, but it also means others are constantly approaching him to broker connections around the wor...
It's impossible for me to live without a computer. But it shouldn't be impossible for me to live without my computer.
In a darkened room on the 18th floor of a downtown San Francisco high-rise, Wilson Cheng scans his e-mail. "Cheapest Viagra Guaranteed." "Affordable Mortgages NOW!!!" "Toilet Cams JUQYZJIV." He get...
Karen Krause was just doing what good entrepreneurs are supposed to do: staying flexible. When the war on terrorism began, she scrapped her business--producing ergonomic computer accessories--and g...
Spam, the unsolicited e-mail pitches that clog your mailbox, is an annoyance that's only getting worse. I have four separate e-mail addresses (at AOL, Earthlink and Yahoo), and on average I get at ...
I'm not fond of business aphorisms. Bigger is better, content is king, own the customer, cannibalize yourself--these are just a few of the cliches that trivialize complex business issues. Another i...
When you first look at Emanuel Rosen, he seems like an ordinary Silicon Valley marketing geek: a man totally consumed by his pet passion, collecting reams of data on word-of-mouth advertising. You ...
Viral marketing: It sounds like a disease, but FORTUNE 500 companies are beginning to believe this Internet strategy could be the cure for their banner-ad woes. It's inexpensive and potent, and mar...
Meet Tom Sawyer, the latest marketing guru for the new economy. Remember how he got his friends to whitewash that picket fence for him? Well, that's every business' dream today: Get customers to to...
Want to know why I'm skeptical? Look no further than the letters about last issue's incubator story (page 14). "Those incubators you wrote about sound horrible. We do the exact same thing, but we'r...
In Silicon Valley, starting a company and selling it before it went public used to be a last resort. It meant admitting that you wouldn't get to be the next Bill Gates or Larry Ellison. Most of the...
One value investor who won't say uncle
So you have an idea for an Internet startup. It's a big idea. Well, not earth-shatteringly big, but of sufficient mass to justify, say, a blowout billion-dollar IPO. You put up a Website to prove y...
Mainstream business magazines may obsess about technology, but their focus is still a lot different from that of the high-tech pubs. More often than not, they focus on business celebrities and IPOs...
The happy resolution of a tech logjam recently prompted this Peter Lynch-like quandary: I'd found a product I loved; should I also love the stock behind it? It's a conundrum that technology stock p...
In the beginning (of this current e-volution) was the Internet. And a day later, or so it seemed, there was e-mail. Everywhere. It was part of the deal when you signed up with an Internet service p...
How do you write a column that says what everybody else has been saying for years and make it sound like a revelation? I'm not sure, but I'm going to give it a try. See, I'm a little slow. But I th...
For the past eight months, ever since Bill Gates named him Microsoft's first president in seven years, Steve Ballmer has been the software giant's invisible man. He hasn't been part of the antitrus...
Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your business model obsolete. Bill Gates knows that. When h...
When you sign up for Internet service, you get an e-mail address and e-mail software such as Eudora Light, Netscape Messenger or Microsoft Outlook Express bundled with your browser. So why bother c...
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