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  • 4 reasons to use GroupMe for work

    Skype, which Microsoft bought in May, said Monday it will buy the group messaging service GroupMe. GroupMe, created last year at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon, went for a rumored $85 million, according to AllthingsD. For now, GroupMe will remain a standalone application, according to the company, but expect changes.

    Written by Ilie Mitaru24 Aug. 11 05:17
  • Twitter and TweetDeck: What it means for businesses

    Twitter is finally acquiring the third-party Tweet organizer TweetDeck, for the neat (rumored) sum of $40 million. But what does this mean for small businesses that use Twitter?

    Written by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal26 May 11 03:14
  • Mozilla brings Thunderbird back in-house

    Signaling a shift in its approach to online communication, Mozilla on Monday announced that it is bringing its Messaging subsidiary back within the fold of the main organization, where it will be absorbed into its Mozilla Labs group instead.

    Written by Katherine Noyes06 April 11 05:01
  • Cloud email crawls to RMIT students, staff

    Though self-admittedly lagging on a trend most universities completed in the past few years, RMIT in Melbourne has committed to migrating its student and staff email accounts to a hosted solution.

    Written by James Hutchinson21 March 11 23:43
  • Google Docs gets Wave-like chat features

    Remember Google Wave, the innovative although sadly unloved e-mail and chat hybrid that was retired last year? Well, it sounds like Google couldn't stand to turn it out into the cold, and several of its features have made their way into Google Docs.

    Written by Keir Thomas17 March 11 05:59
  • Five tools to protect you from e-mail slip-ups

    It's a rare e-mail user indeed who hasn't experienced the awful moment that can come right after hitting "send." It's the moment when you realize that you just said something you shouldn't have in the e-mail, and there's no way to get it back.

    Written by Katherine Noyes12 March 11 05:43
  • Master your e-mail (so it doesn’t master you)

    I've seen a few reports that say kids these days think e-mail is passé. Heh. That may be, but for people who have actual work to do, the inbox remains the center of the universe. And I have some tricks to help you take that universe in the palm of your hand and utterly dominate it -- you know, just in case e-mail doesn't go the way of the telegraph anytime soon.

    Written by Robert Strohmeyer04 Dec. 10 02:15
  • CSIRO experiments with 'no email' day

    The CSIRO is undertaking an experiment few commercial organisations would dare to consider — switching off email for an entire day.

    Written by Tim Lohman25 Nov. 10 16:47
  • Google Wave gets a second life from Apache

    Rumors of the death of Google Wave are perhaps somewhat exaggerated. Google may have pulled the plug on the short-lived Google Wave, but the concept lives on in an open source project being embraced by the Apache Software Foundation.

    Written by Tony Bradley25 Nov. 10 04:16
  • Facebook e-mail is the missing piece of the puzzle

    Facebook has an invitation-only media event planned for Monday, and most of the media and tech blogosphere are speculating that the social network plans to unveil its own Web-based e-mail service. If those predictions are accurate, Facebook e-mail will provide a critical missing element for Facebook as a business marketing and communications platform.

    Written by Tony Bradley13 Nov. 10 06:21
  • The pros and cons of Google Apps

    Considering a move to Google Apps in your enterprise? Some things to consider.

    Written by Darren Horrigan03 Sept. 10 14:46
  • Gmail Facelift Makes Contacts Less Pretty

    Google decided to revamp Gmail to make its contacts easier to use and more business-friendly, but I already hate it. If you're like me, using Google's Web-based e-mail since 2004, maybe you've watched Muzzle, random signature, and Google Buzz come and go used the automatic vacation responder and may even have integrated Gmail with Microsoft Outlook.

    Written by Barbara E. Hernandez12 Aug. 10 10:12
  • Google's Postini has performance issues

    Postini, Google's suite of e-mail security, management and archiving services, encountered service disruptions on Tuesday afternoon and evening.

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez10 June 10 00:59
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