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Meet the Biggest Threat to Google, AOL, and Microsoft: Ronald Reagan

In the world of email, a short list of companies dominate--Google, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft--but there's a new player in the game that's ready to tear down their firewalls: Ronald Reagan.READ»

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Facebook's Platform Coup D'Etat of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo

One Inbox To Rule Them All: Gmail, Yahoo, and Microsoft can keep their @ extensions and domain names. Facebook just wants to swallow them up into a single destination. READ»

Ronald Reagan's Son Launches @Reagan Email Alternative to Lefty Gmail, AOL, Hotmail

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Ronald Reagan's famous challenge to the Russian leader became a rallying-cry to end the Cold War. Now, decades later, Reagan's son is taking up the torch, albeit for a more important cause: ...READ»

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Windows Live Hotmail: Completely Re-Invented (Read: It Actually Looks Good Now)

Microsoft announced their new version of Hotmail today, and it's the biggest change for the service I can remember. It takes lots of cues from Gmail, and in a few ways manages to one-up it--it's classic New Microsoft. In other words, it's legit.READ»

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How Microsoft is Going to Compete with Google

Brian Hall, General Manager of Windows Live, which includes Hotmail, Live Spaces, Live Messenger, tells me how Microsoft will compete with Google, Yahoo, and Facebook. These services have hundreds of millions of users and therefore is ...READ»

Forget Everything You've Heard About Book Publishing

Most people have a vision of publishing that ceased to exist years ago: writers of yore traipsing bookstore to bookstore across America to offer readings and scrawl inscriptions to the handful of strangers who bothered to show up. It sounds so quaint. Alas, today's publishers have little patience for such low-yield marketing efforts. [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 1]READ»

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Microsoft Brings Bing Feature to Hotmail, Urges 350 Million Users to Forget Google

Just as Google levels its sights on Microsoft's OS dominance, Microsoft is quietly adding some Bing to email provider Hotmail, nudging hundreds of millions of users toward Microsoft's Bing decision engine. The primary change to ...READ»