Friday, July 17, 2009
Twelve Percent of Email Users Have Actually Tried to Buy Stuff From Spam
Be honest: have you ever responded to a spam e-mail? Do you know anyone who has?
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Email Patterns Can Predict Impending Doom
Email logs can provide advance warning of an organisation reaching crisis point. That’s the tantalising suggestion to emerge from the pattern of messages exchanged by Enron employees.
Monday, June 1, 2009
The Beatles’ Surprise E3 Appearance
Every year, the annual E3 videogame expo kicks off with media briefings by the three console makers: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. The trio vie to get the most buzz for their games and products by trying to one-up each other with the most entertaining, star-studded show they can muster up.
Friday, May 15, 2009
The Real-Time Local News
Impending hurricanes and missing children make the local news, but what about smaller incidents–like senior citizens who wander from their care facility or nearby traffic accidents–that residents still want to know about?
Monday, April 27, 2009
Why Email Clients Need to Change
My inbox is broken. Not in an I-can’t-check-my-messages kind of way, but in a fundamental, inboxes-will-never-be-the-same-again kind of way.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Spam’s Noxious Carbon Footprint
Email users may already hate spam, but perhaps they’ll be gratified to know that it’s also bad for the environment.
Calculating one’s carbon footprint may be all the rage, but in the case of spam, it’s serious, according to a study released Wednesday by computer security company McAfee Avert Labs.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Why Is Gmail Still in Beta?
Gmail turned five on Wednesday, April 1. Launched in 2004 as an invitation-only email service, the Google product now has more than 100 million users.
Monday, April 6, 2009
On URL Shorteners
URL shortening services have been around for a number of years. Their original purpose was to prevent cumbersome URLs from getting fragmented by broken email clients that felt the need to wrap everything to an 80 column screen. But it’s 2009 now, and this problem no longer exists. Instead it’s been replaced by the SMS-oriented 140 character constraints of sites like Twitter.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Why Bit.ly Will Upstage Digg
Yesterday, New York-based start-up incubator Betaworks raised $2 million in funding for its URL-shortener project, Bit.ly, and spun it out as an independent company.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Guy Kawasaki Can Handle Being Called a Spammer
To kick off his keynote speech at SES, a marketing conference in New York, Guy Kawasaki asked how many people in the audience were on Twitter at that moment. Hands shot up across the packed ballroom.
“Yeah, that’s what I was afraid of,” he said.
Jennifer Aniston Ended Relationship With John Mayer Because of His Twitter “Obsession”
People claiming to be friends of the actress have told Star magazine that she finished the affair after discovering Mayer, 31, spent hours on the networking Web site, despite telling her he was too busy to get in touch with her.
The pair started dating in April 2008, but have broken up several times. However, they appeared inseparable at the Oscars last month.
A source claimed Aniston decided Mayer was not committed enough to her and called time on their romance having found hourly updates on his Twitter page.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Gmail’s New “Undo Send” Feature Saves You From Outbox Regret
A new feature for Gmail aims to rid your life of that classic “Oh Sh*t” email moment.
“Undo Send” puts a five-to-ten-second hold on all outgoing messages. If you addressed an email to the wrong person, let slip with an embarrassing typo or simply said something you really, really shouldn’t have, Undo Send can be a lifesaver. Or, more accurately, a job-saver.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Survey Finds Consumers Chop Cellphone Use to Cut Costs
Consumers have begun reducing their cellphone use to save money in the face of the sharp economic downturn, according to a new survey.
Conducted by Opinion Research Corp. for the New Millennium Research Council, the survey of 2,005 Americans found that 39 percent of those with contract-based cellphones are likely to cut back their service to save money if the economy gets worse over the next six months.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
How Do Morals Translate Offline to Online?
How does a 12-year-old’s sense of right and wrong play out when he or she is online? A recent Michigan State University study, published in the academic journal, Sex Roles, isn’t answering the question but attempting to get the conversation going.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Google’s Schmidt Speaks Up About Twitter
For those wondering what Eric Schmidt thinks of Twitter, the Google chief executive made his views clear on Tuesday. It’s “a poor man’s email system,” said Schmidt at an investor conference in San Francisco.
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