Email

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

Gregory Ferenstein — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:06:54 -0500

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 unrepresentative as this is of my low-key, Birkenstock-wearing mannerisms, I learned long ago that if my words could misconstrued in an email, they would be misconstrued. Brief, efficient emails were taken as aggressive or pretentious. Or worse, an attempt at sarcasm would go completely unnoticed, and I’d appear downright mean.

Postal Strike Returns Brits to Old-School Tech

Addy Dugdale — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:14:29 -0500

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 the New Year, a couple of pay checks have gone missing, not to mention a credit card payment--which resulted in my card being suspended. Many of you will no doubt be wondering why a tech writer doesn't pay all her bills online. Answer: because I'm an awkward bugger.

iPhone Poised to Snap Up More Business Users?

Kit Eaton — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:35:57 -0500

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.

Most People Use the Web to Talk to People Nearby

Chris Dannen — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:53:58 -0400

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 Jerusalem.

The study says that while the Web has developed a reputation as a tool for geo-commerce and penpalling, the main utility has been to increase communications hyper-locally. In fact, the abstract says, "the volume of electronic communications is inversely proportional to geographic distance."

Why Twitter and Facebook Will Never Kill E-mail

Kit Eaton — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:15:28 -0400

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 history?

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

Chris Dannen — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:08:39 -0400

If you're planning to mediate on the collapse of your publicly held company, you'd better think twice about doing it on Gmail.

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

Kate Rockwood — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:34:24 -0400

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 the iPhone heart rate monitor prototype introduced today at the third Body Computing Conference ever goes to market.

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

Chris Dannen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:34:42 -0400

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 enterprise rule in potential jeopardy. If you've ever harassed your IT department to swap your Blackberry for an iPhone, this should give you more ammunition.

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

Clay Dillow — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:08:50 -0400

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 data storage doubling every 18 to 24 months. But exactly what are we saving?

Developers Start to Surf Google Wave, And Love It

Kit Eaton — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:23:35 -0400

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.

Five Reasons to Be Terrified of Google Wave

Chris Dannen — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:34:01 -0400

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.

Five Brilliant Ways to Use Google Voice

Chris Dannen — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:38:44 -0400

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 service is. And while Google Voice's feature set is intuitive, here are five ways to mash up the service with other tasks and services you use every day, to get the most productivity out of your GV account.

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

Rooftop Comedy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:59:39 -0400

Life Lesson for College: Your Major Doesn't Matter

Rooftop Comedy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:57:32 -0400

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

Ariel Schwartz — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:17:57 -0400

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 homes. The majority of energy is wasted at the end user's computer in sifting through messages to find and delete spam.

When ROI Measurement And Actual Effectiveness Are Mutually Exclusive

DJ Francis — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:24:52 -0400

In the 2009 Social Media Marketing and PR Benchmark Guide (http://www.sherpastore.com/socialmediabmg09.html?9780), 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?

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

Kit Eaton — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:01:08 -0400

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 create their own domain and Web site to aggregate all of their content from social networks and media sites they visit.

Peek Launches Business Emailer Handheld: The Pronto

Kit Eaton — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:27:49 -0400

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 capitalize on its fame, Peek has come out with a new version that's mainly aimed at business users.

Shortn.me: Smartest URL Clipper Yet

Noah Robischon — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:35:44 -0400

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 Twitter, Facebook or in an e-mail in a smarter way than before.

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

Aghreni Technologies — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:36:20 -0400

Aghreni Technologies, leader in interactive email and mobile marketing recently published the numbers to the Industry.

It sent about 1,450,000 emails on behalf of its clients through its
leading email and mobile marketing platform in just less than 2 months
of its operations in india.

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

Aghreni Technologies — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:34:04 -0400

Aghreni Technologies, that is part of a global email marketing giant
whose competitors include the best names in the business is offering
e-messenger, email and mobile marketing automation platform that can
send high volume emails and mobile messages with high deliverability.

Team Aghreni has over 4 years of experience in email marketing
working with some of the world's largest brands. Aghreni's email and
mobile messaging platform called e-messenger services over a 900clients
in Europe, Asia and the USA.

Surfing the Web with Voice

Chris Dannen — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:56:30 -0500

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 easier development change all that?

What BlackBerry Addiction says About Obama's Brain

Kermit Pattison — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:00:06 -0500

Obama may have won the election, but he’s about to lose his BlackBerry. During the campaign, Obama’s device was at his side more often than Joe Biden. Alas, change is coming: many expect that Obama will have to surrender his BlackBerry when he enters the Oval Office. We feel your pain, Barack. For many of us, going offline feels like cold turkey. Can email be addictive? Princeton University neuroscientist Sam Wang, co-author of Welcome to Your Brain, weighs in.

Google Saves You From Your Drunk Self

Chris Dannen — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:25:11 -0400

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 circumstances -- drunk as hell, or perhaps just high on life after seeing The Eagles -- you open up your laptop and scratch out an idiotic email that you invariably regret the next morning.

Nokia Expands Email Abilities; Buys OZ Communications

Chris Dannen — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:38:49 -0400

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 Communications, a company that specializes in mobile messaging technologies.

The absorption of OZ, which, like RIM, is based in Canada, will allow Nokia's phones to achieve quicker access to instant messaging connectivity and Web-based email like Yahoo, GMail, AOL and Hotmail.