Tag archive: yahoo mail

According to a recent study conducted by Nielsen and published on the official company blog, Facebook is the most popular application on Android-powered smartphones besides the Android Market. The social networking app beat out Google applications such as Gmail, Google Search, YouTube and Google Maps. The Facebook application is most popular with people between the ages of 25 to 34 and over 75 percent of people between the ages of 35 to 44 use… Read More

Hot on the heels of the overnight success that is Google+, Facebook has been shutting down exporting tools left and right. The site’s taken a beaten for this, and been labeled as trying to keep a iron-clad grip on your data – which it definitely is and probably should. But that doesn’t make it any less frustrating as a user to know that for the most part, you aren’t able to quickly and easily transfer the data you’ve accrued from one social… Read More

A new service called Shortmail launched recently and it’s being heralded as the answer to our supposed email nightmares. It’s been likened to a Twitter for email and requires users to keep their messages to 500-characters and does not allow you to use attachments. As gimmicky as it might initially sound, the idea is clearly taking off and just secured itself $750,000 in Series A fundraising. Shortmail argues that email as we know it is poorly… Read More

Some say email is a dying technology, shunned to the corners of the Internet only trafficked by geriatrics from a time long gone; replaced by social networks, like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. But that's just not true. In fact, according to a new study by Swedish uptime monitoring service Pingdom, email remains a massively important business for the providers of the world's largest free email services: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.… Read More

Internet giant Yahoo is rolling out a new version of Yahoo Mail to its 284 million users in the next few weeks, hoping to make Yahoo Mail the central hub of their online and social lives by integrating a raft of new social features, improved security, and mobile access, along with cloud-based technology that Yahoo says makes the service up to two times faster. The changes include a major facelift for the familiar service, and the company hopes… Read More

Even though Hotmail has had some trouble holding its ground as an e-mail client to the likes of growing Gmail and ring leader Yahoo, the Microsoft product has recently been busy bringing some formidable new features. Recently, it integrated Facebook chat and even offered a “throwaway” account feature. Now it’s stepping up its integrated options with new Active Views for LinkedIn, Posterous, LivingSocial, and Netflix. Active View was introduced… Read More

Users of Google's Gmail are thinner, younger, better-educated, more well-traveled and more likely to be male than AOL or Yahoo! email users, according to a new report from Hunch.com. This potentially-offensive blanket statement is based on a newly-published study from Hunch, a site that makes a wide variety of recommendations to its users based on answers to survey questions. Hunch analyzed 75 million answers from its approximately 700,000… Read More

Yesterday, Yahoo issued a statement acknowledging that its Yahoo Mail service was at fault for the so called “phantom data” glitch that has led to scores of Windows Phone 7 users burning through their monthly data allotments at alarming rates. Yahoo cited an “inefficiency” in the “synchronization of email between Windows Phone Mail clients and Yahoo! Mail” as the root cause behind the data gorging.… Read More

Microsoft has identified Yahoo Mail as the culprit behind the mysterious data usage reported by scores of Windows Phone 7 owners. The “phantom data” issue was first brought to light earlier in the year when users began noticing that they were burning through their monthly data allowances at unusually high rates. On January 20, Microsoft issued a vague statement addressing the problem:”we have determined that a third-party… Read More

In an effort to keep up with competing Web-based e-mail services – like Google’s constantly evolving Gmail – as well as the growing reliance on social networks, Yahoo this morning launched a redesigned beta version of its own e-mail service. The aesthetic changes to the site are subtle and appear mainly to involve a new emphasis on the color purple, but Yahoo is claiming some significant performance improvements and new features that just might… Read More

Days after reports of Bing displacing Yahoo in the number 2 slot came out, Yahoo attempts to reassert its relevancy by previewing updates to several of its site products, including email and search. The updates are expect to roll out to users sometime this fall. The changes are aimed towards reversing the decline in the amount of time people spend on Yahoo sites. The company changed the appearance of its search interface so that users can get… Read More

Google's Gmail Web-based email service has always occupied something of an odd niche: although for years it has been a favorite of tech-heads and the digitally savvy, it didn't boast the kind of user base that Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and the ever-more-venerable AOL managed to bring in. But now that Google has finally brought Gmail out of its five-year beta, Gmail seems to be moving up in the world: according to media metrics firm… Read More

The new Yahoo Mail will roll out in phases this summer, said Jim Brock, Yahoo's senior vice president for consumer services. “Our objective has been to make storage limits a non-issue for users,” Brock said. Yahoo announced the improved mail service at its annual analysts meeting in San Francisco. The Sunnyvale company used the daylong event to tout its status as the top Internet Web site and to lay out a road map for… Read More

From the Yahoo! press release: Yahoo! Inc.today announced that it has created a more comprehensive and relevant search experience for users through the deployment of its own algorithmic search technology on Yahoo! Search (http://search.yahoo.com/). Starting today, the company will begin rolling out the new Yahoo! Search Technology (YST) and expects to continue the process on a worldwide basis over the next several weeks. With the… Read More