Amazon is launching a new email and calendar service, dubbed WorkMail, to compete with Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps and other behind-the-scenes corporate email services, according to reports by Forbes and the… Read More
A new update for the Tipbit mobile email app for iPhone promises better social integration, an improved interface and faster search results for messages and other information even when not stored locally on the device,… Read More
Microsoft announced today that it has purchased Acompli, a company that makes professional-grade email apps for iOS and Android. The Acompli team will be working with Microsoft’s Outlook team on email… Read More
WeMail, a Mercer Island-based startup, has raised $1 million in funding to change the way people use email on their mobile devices. The company’s app, which bears the same name,… Read More
Sorting through hundreds of emails and picking out what’s important can be a real pain, and now Google has built a tool to help fix that problem. The company today unveiled… Read More
It’s the build-up to the long Labor Day weekend, so how can someone reach key decision-makers from Washington, D.C.? Take out ads in local newspapers in some of the most popular… Read More
We’ve all been there: once upon a time, some company or organization asked for an email address, and now, several months later, their email messages are still pouring in, even… Read More
Microsoft will not be shutting off its security notification mailing list for systems administrators and other security professionals today, despite informing them late last week that the service would be coming… Read More
Let’s face it. Managing email on a mobile device kind of sucks. It’s nearly impossible to find archived messages, let alone seamlessly connecting to one’s calendar, contacts or other third-party… Read More
Gmail went down for a brief moment today, and Yahoo decided to take advantage of problems that its biggest email competitor was having. The outage, which was a temporary 500 code… Read More
Google announced a key change to Gmail Thursday: users can now email people who are on Google+, without needing to know their email address. Now, when Gmail users start typing… Read More
Email is that thing we all have to worry about, but managing it can be a real pain. So what’s an Apple user to do? While I use the Mailbox app… Read More
Let’s face it. Managing email on a smartphone is a real pain. Not a day goes by that I don’t stumble over some glitch, losing an email or failing to… Read More
If Microsoft thought Google was “Scroogling” people with the way the search giant uses the contents of Gmail messages to deliver ads, it may have a field day with a new… Read More
My inbox is a horribly inefficient way to manage the requests that come into me. On any given day, I receive all sorts of different emails — all of which… Read More
Microsoft today announced that the migration from Hotmail to the new Outlook.com is officially complete and that there are now more than 400 million active Outlook accounts. The Redmond software giant also… Read More
Just days before his resignation and candid goodbye letter, former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason sent out a Tweet a few months ago asking if it was possible to write a Gmail script… Read More
A firmware upgrade failure at one of Microsoft’s datacenters caused the facility to overheat and shut down access to Outlook.com and Hotmail for some users earlier this week, Microsoft said… Read More
I just gave myself a wonderful Christmas gift, one that I never thought I’d ever achieve. As of 9 a.m. today, I officially got my GeekWire email account — john@geekwire.com —… Read More
The blog Dad Hoc brings us the story of a custom-developed Kinect-powered email system, which was built for a stroke victim who suffers from aphasia, a disorder caused by damage to the… Read More
Legislatures, state and federal, are starting to react to the trend of employers — at least the creepy employers — requiring job applicants and employees to turn over usernames and… Read More
A federal judge in California has dismissed a pair of cases that were filed last year against Microsoft and Yahoo by a bulk emailing firm that argued the companies violated… Read More
Marketfish, a Seattle startup which operates an online marketplace for email marketing lists, has reeled in $4.5 million in new financing from Rustic Canyon and Javelin Ventures, GeekWire has learned.… Read More
Guest Commentary: On a rainy afternoon earlier this month, my stuffed-to-the-gills University of Washington e-mail storage finally burst. I had gone well over the 1,000 megabyte mark, mostly by e-mailing… Read More
Bob Thordarson manually tried to update his online contacts list on several occasions, but each time the Seattle entrepreneur seemed to run out of steam by the time he hit… Read More
A couple weeks ago I cleared more than 10,000 emails from my primary personal webmail inbox, dating back almost three years. It’s already back up into the hundreds. It’s not… Read More
While researching this morning’s story about the latest interactive features from Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail, I realized it had been a while since I checked the market-share statistics for the… Read More
Microsoft’s Hotmail team today will show how more companies plan to use its “Active Views” technology — interactive email messages that can be updated in the recipient’s inbox, even after… Read More
Keeping an online address book up-to-date can be a serious chore. After all, with the frequency that people change locations or jobs, duplicate contacts often arise. WhitePages is looking to… Read More
