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Sony Ericsson Announces P910 Smartphone

From Sony Ericcson’s press release:

The P910 makes handling e-mails and web browsing easy with a wide choice of input methods. For example, the new thumb keyboard on the inside of the flip is particularly useful for writing longer e-mails and the five-way Jog Dial is ideal for navigating the phone’s functions or browsing the web. Additionally handwriting recognition using the stylus on the large color touch screen and virtual keyboard are valuable tools for SMS messages, taking notes, or adding a new contact or meeting.  Read more...

California Senate Approved Anti-Gmail Bill

The bill passed after revisions that removed a key provision that would have required e-mail providers to win the consent of anyone sending messages to their service before scanning messages.

“My legislation guarantees that our most private communications will remain just that–private,” said Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Fremont, the bill’s author, according to a statement.

In a statement, Google said that it is taking a neutral position on the bill as it continues to work with Figueroa on the measure.

Read more at CNET News.com.

Google Developing E-mail Ad Service

Privately held Google, which is expected to go public later this year, faces rising competition in its core search business from e-mail providers including Yahoo Inc. and MSN, Microsoft Corp.’s Internet unit.

Adding an e-mail service would provide a potential boost to Google as its technology lead in the search market seems destined to narrow and it prepares to answer to growth-hungry shareholders, analysts said.

The Mountain View, California, company, which has recently made several e-mail related acquisitions, is working on a way to serve advertising to an e-mail at the moment it is opened, people close to the company said.  Read more...

Yahoo launches anti-spam e-mail decoys

Yahoo, which has marketed itself as a successful spam fighter for e-mail users, said most of the new functions are available only to subscribers of its Mail Plus service, which costs $29.99 a year.

The battle against spam has drawn the attention of e-mail providers and legislators, amid growing concern about the cost of junk e-mail to companies and consumers.

Yahoo said it has seen a 40 percent jump in spam from January to August and now averages 700,000 spam reports a day. Some analysts estimate that spam totals one-third of all e-mail, costing corporations billions of dollars a year.  Read more...

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