Will a spotless inbox really supercharge your productivity?
Inbox Zero forces you to deal with every email immediately in the quest for peace of mind and productivity. But does it work? I put it to use to find out.
Dropbox acquires startup app Mailbox
Cloud storage company Dropbox recently acquired startup e-mail company Mailbox. As of now, Dropbox intends to help improve Mailbox's services, but a full-on integration could come down the road.
How to check if someone clicked the link you sent
How many of those links you share with friends actually get seen? WasItViewed helps you keep track.
The Listserve is like Chatroulette meets PostSecret
An online social experiment wants to know what you'd share with the world if you had the chance for it to be seen by millions of people.
Law enforcement agencies vacuum up data online, lack reporting procedures
Police and other agencies are deferring to the Internet for investigation purposes - and a new paper points out is no required report for this activity.
Security breach spills customer names, e-mail addresses for hackers
Prepare your spam filter: A security breach has some very notable businesses worried about customers' information.
Hotmail extends Active View to Netflix, LinkedIn, Posterous, and LivingSocial
Hotmail's new move is an upgrade for users and its new business partners.
Texts will replace postage stamps in Sweden and Denmark
Your stamp collection could become much more valuable: Denmark and Sweden will be introducing technology allowed consumers to text for postal codes.
Polls show e-mail popularity waning, Facebook Messages ready to fill in
As e-mail popularity declines, Facebook Messages seems ready to swoop and officially takeover online communication.
Google begins testing display ads in Gmail
You might start to see image content in your Gmail account, as Google starts branching out with its e-mail advertising with display ads.
Microsoft apologizes after Hotmail bug wipes accounts of e-mail
Over the weekend, thousands of Hotmail users found their inboxes wiped clean, with some accounts containing a decade worth of saved e-mails - a lesson in the downside of computing in the cloud.
California man supports himself by suing spammers
We all hate spam, but maybe not as much as Dan Balsam, who began a new career to take on purveyors of the annoying e-mails.
Man in legal trouble for reading wife’s email
In the first case of its kind, a man is being charged with reading his ex-wife's e-mail.
Man behind a third of the world’s spam heading to court
Oleg Nikolaenko will head to court in the near future for running malware that has been linked to extraordinary amounts of the world's spam.
Facebook Messages will have Office integration; should Gmail start getting worried?
Microsoft has revealed it collaboration with Facebook's new messaging service, allowing users to send, receive, and view Office files. So much for being "not an e-mail killer."