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Tired of pesky email newsletters? Gmail adds unsubscribe button to ditch unwanted messages

by Blair Hanley Frank on August 6, 2014September 1, 2014 at 9:40 am 4 Comments

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 won’t be ending its security emails after all

by Blair Hanley Frank on July 1, 2014July 1, 2014 at 2:22 pmComment

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

This Microsoft vet just scored $4 million to radically change the way you use email on mobile devices

by John Cook on March 12, 2014December 23, 2014 at 6:51 am 2 Comments

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 15 minutes and Yahoo made sure to let everyone know

by Taylor Soper on January 24, 2014January 24, 2014 at 1:55 pm1 Comment

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

Here’s how to keep random people from emailing you through Google+

by Blair Hanley Frank on January 9, 2014January 9, 2014 at 8:48 pmComment

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

Living with Apple’s iOS 7: 5 tips to get the most out of Mail

by Blair Hanley Frank on October 6, 2013October 5, 2013 at 8:42 am 4 Comments

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

Startup Spotlight: These former Microsofties want to change the way you access email on your smartphone

by John Cook on August 14, 2013August 14, 2013 at 7:39 am1 Comment

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

Google is now delivering ads that appear as emails to your Gmail inbox

by Taylor Soper on July 22, 2013July 22, 2013 at 10:47 am 2 Comments

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

The future of the inbox

by Drew Meyers on May 4, 2013May 3, 2013 at 9:41 pm 15 Comments

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

Hotmail is officially toast, but Microsoft says Outlook.com is on fire

by Taylor Soper on May 2, 2013May 5, 2013 at 8:45 am 3 Comments

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

Startup Weekend Seattle winner TLDR helps you write and read shorter emails

by Taylor Soper on April 8, 2013April 8, 2013 at 1:40 pm 13 Comments

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

Microsoft: Overheating datacenter caused Outlook.com outage

by Todd Bishop on March 14, 2013March 14, 2013 at 8:34 am 6 Comments

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

Merry Christmas to me: I just got to inbox zero!

by John Cook on December 25, 2012January 11, 2015 at 6:35 pm 6 Comments

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

Son develops visual-based, Kinect-powered email system for stroke-stricken mother

by Grant Brissey on September 10, 2012September 10, 2012 at 3:28 pmComment

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

Boss signing in to your Facebook account? There’s a law for that

by William Carleton on June 4, 2012June 4, 2012 at 9:51 am 2 Comments

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

Judge tosses antitrust claims over Microsoft, Yahoo spam filters

by Todd Bishop on August 25, 2011August 25, 2011 at 1:08 pmComment

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 nabs $4.5 million, names chief privacy officer

by John Cook on May 16, 2011May 16, 2011 at 8:08 am 6 Comments

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

An e-mail exodus: How a frazzled UW grad student made the jump to Gmail

by Will Mari on May 2, 2011October 1, 2011 at 2:20 am 5 Comments

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

Scrubly looks to clean up ‘messy’ contact lists and address books

by John Cook on April 26, 2011April 26, 2011 at 5:04 am 5 Comments

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

‘Hoarders’ psychologist helps me stop being a digital packrat

by Todd Bishop on April 7, 2011April 7, 2011 at 9:20 pm 4 Comments

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

Stats: Hotmail still on top worldwide; Gmail gets bigger

by Todd Bishop on March 29, 2011March 29, 2011 at 12:34 pm 5 Comments

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

Hotmail gets interactive with Netflix, Posterous, LivingSocial

by Todd Bishop on March 29, 2011March 29, 2011 at 9:00 amComment

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

WhitePages unveils Hiya to help eliminate email contact clutter

by John Cook on March 10, 2011March 10, 2011 at 7:00 amComment

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

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