Email

Why I Write Like a Pre-teen Girl in Emails, lol ;-) !!!

Those individuals who know me only through emails must think that my parents are Mr. Rogers and a double-espresso. Recently, my correspondences have had more winks, lol’s, and exclamation points than a Twilight chatroom. As ...READ»

Postal Strike Returns Brits to Old-School Tech

For old-fashioned letter writers like me, the past few months have been pretty horrid, what with the U.K.'s postal strike. Despite yesterday's news that the unions and management of Royal Mail have decided to suspend the strike until ...READ»

iPhone Poised to Snap Up More Business Users?

The iPhone may or may not be a success in China, but some analysis just out suggests it's actually doing pretty well in the enterprise environment. It may even more than triple its market share compared to last year. When you think ...READ»

Most People Use the Web to Talk to People Nearby

Ever use email to talk to the person sitting one office down? You're not alone. Most people use the Web to talking to people within their own city, not far-flung contacts, according to a new study by the Hebrew University in ...READ»

Why Twitter and Facebook Will Never Kill E-mail

Twitter's on every tech-fan's lips, half the World's teens seem permanently plugged into MSN or Facebook, and seemingly every gadget's getting wired to a social network. With these big changes afoot, is email slipping into ...READ»

Gmail Records Show Bear Stearns Anticipated "Blow-Up Risk" to Investors

If you're planning to mediate on the collapse of your publicly held company, you'd better think twice about doing it on Gmail. Google's email service promises that you'll "never need to delete another message," and in fact it keeps ...READ»

Broadcast Your Heart Rate on Twitter? You Could, With This iPhone App From Corventis

When you think of body computing--monitoring physical health using technology--it generally conjures images of middle-aged or elderly folks in sterile settings. But the future of body computing is in the teen market, especially if ...READ»

Want an iPhone for Work? New "Push" Gmail is Your Excuse

The Blackberry used to be the email weapon of choice for its instantaneous "push" email capability. Now Google is bringing that same rapid delivery to iPhone and Windows Mobile devices with its Gmail service, putting Blackberry's ...READ»

Silentale Will Archive Your Every Word, but Is a Searchable Life a Liability?

The perpetually declining cost of data storage has made our lives, especially the online versions of them, more savable and searchable than ever before. Server farms are growing faster than strawberries on FarmVille, with demand for ...READ»

Developers Start to Surf Google Wave, And Love It

Weeks ago, when Google Wave was first announced, we explained why you should be terrified of it. Now Google's opened Wave up to developers, and their first impressions are being published. Wave, it seems, is a wild ride. If you've ...READ»

Five Reasons to Be Terrified of Google Wave

Google Wave, announced today at Google's I/O Developer conference in San Francisco, is a hybridized email system that will fundamentally change the way we think about electronic messaging. This is foreboding ...READ»

Five Brilliant Ways to Use Google Voice

The public launch of Google's new Voice service is imminent, and it's going to change the way you use the Web (to sign up for an invitation, click here). If you're currently a beta user, you already know how flexible and robust the ...READ»

Hey, Zen Master: Email Is Not a Forum for Philosophy

That inspirational quote in your email signature file? Maybe that’s not always such a good idea.READ»

Life Lesson for College: Your Major Doesn't Matter

Have fun, kids, because employers don’t care what you studied.READ»

What's the Carbon Footprint of Spam? Enough to Power 2.4 Million Homes

The carbon footprint of a single email is negligible, but new research from ICF International and McAfee shows that the 62 trillion spam emails sent each year waste 33 billion kilowatt hours of power, or enough to power 2.4 million ...READ»

When ROI Measurement And Actual Effectiveness Are Mutually Exclusive

In the 2009 Social Media Marketing and PR Benchmark Guide, MarketingSherpa explains a conundrum marketers are facing in a web 2.0 world: What do you do when the ability to measure your return on investment (ROI) is mutually exclusive to the effectiveness of a particular campaign? In other words, how do you sell a tactic up the chain of command that you know will work but can't provide definite numbers? Or conversely, how do you dissuade a course of action that has proven ineffective, but which your executives embrace because they understand the number of impressions or "hits" or lives interrupted by the campaign?READ»

Chi.mp Site Launches to Simplify Your Online Identity and Socializing

An interesting new site on the interwebs aims to simplify and centralize your online life by giving you more control over your online identity. Fresh out of private beta, Chi.mp is now open to the public and will enable users to ...READ»

Peek Launches Business Emailer Handheld: The Pronto

Peek's tiny handheld wireless email gizmo has had a fascinating success story, and its modeled on a "simplicity versus complexity" ethic that sets it against the increasingly sophisticated Blackberry. Now, in an effort to ...READ»

Shortn.me: Smartest URL Clipper Yet

One side benefit of working with Crisp Wireless for the launch of our new mobile site, m.fastcompany.com, is that we also get to introduce you to Shortn.me. It's a new service that lets you shorten a website URL for sharing on ...READ»

Aghreni delivers 1.5 million emails for Indian Marketers in less than 2 months of its operations

Aghreni Technologies, leader in interactive email and mobile marketing recently published the numbers to the Industry. It sent about 1,450,000 emails through its email marketing platform in just less than 2 months of its operations in india.READ»

End to End Email and Mobile Marketing automation Solutions and Services for Marketers

Aghreni Technologies, that is part of a global email marketing giant is offering e-messenger, email and mobile marketing automation platform that can send high volume emails and mobile messages with high deliverability to Indian Marketers.READ»

Surfing the Web with Voice

An Indian startup named TringMe announced a new platform this week that it says will allow developers to easily write voice-enabled apps and widgets for the Web. But to date, voice-over-IP is a technological underachiever. Could ...READ»

What BlackBerry Addiction says About Obama's Brain

Giving up the CrackBerry will make the president-elect more productive, but neuroscientist Sam Wang says that he shouldn’t give it up completely. Here’s why…READ»

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• The Brand Called Obama

Google Saves You From Your Drunk Self

It’s the scourge of the new generation of computer-users. The ubiquity of electronic communications is so pervasive that sometimes you have access to the world when your brain has lost access to your fingers. Under those ...READ»

Nokia Expands Email Abilities; Buys OZ Communications

Around the smartphone industry, RIM [RIMM] is traditionally known as the email specialist. Now it appears that Nokia [NOK] might be trying to gin up a little competition for the Canadian Blackberry-maker by purchasing OZ ...READ»