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Yahoo blocks emails about Wall Street protest

Posted September 21, 2011 - 10:28 am

Ready for conspiracy theories? Folks emailing information about the Wall Street protests on Monday using Yahoo discovered their emails failed, and received a message from Yahoo claiming "suspicious activity." Does that sound suspicious?
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Google Gmail snafu lesson: Backup, backup, backup

Posted March 1, 2011 - 1:49 pm

Gmail is hard at work restoring service to about 40,000 Gmail users after a software bug deleted their e-mail messages, folders, labels and filters. So, while things are looking good for those users affected by the bug, this episode proves, once again, that while Web-based services may be robust, you still have to take responsibility for your own data.
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6 tips: How cloud e-mail helps Sonesta Hotels sleep

Posted February 22, 2011 - 6:10 pm

In the hotel business, IT people are used to having to create standardized technology services to share with parts of the company that they don't necessarily own.
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Microsoft adds phony e-mail to your Hotmail account

Posted February 4, 2011 - 1:10 pm

Microsoft recently announced a new feature that lets you create and maintain multiple phony Hotmail addresses from your main Hotmail account.
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The MIME guys: How two Internet gurus changed e-mail forever

Posted February 1, 2011 - 10:11 am

Two decades ago, Nathaniel Borenstein and Ned Freed wrote MIME, the Internet protocol for sending multimedia e-mail messages. Here’s how they did it.
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How Amazon's new bulk e-mail service works

Posted January 26, 2011 - 4:09 pm

Amazon has launched Simple Email Service (SES), a new component of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform designed to help businesses send bulk e-mails. No, not spam. They aren't too keen on the "S" word over at Amazon and, in fact, many safeguards are in place to prevent abuse.
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Hackers, spammers will target Facebook Messages, say experts

Posted November 17, 2010 - 10:33 am

Facebook's revamped Messages will be a very attractive target for spammers, scammers and malware makers, security experts said today.
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Google CEO not worried about Facebook

Posted November 16, 2010 - 1:46 pm

The CEO of Google says he's not worried at all about Facebook's new messaging system.
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Facebook bets on e-mail/IM/SMS mashup

Posted November 15, 2010 - 4:52 pm

Killing recent rumors that it's launching an e-mail killer, Facebook today unveiled a new messaging system that will envelope e-mail, instant messages, Facebook messages and SMS.
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AOL's got (updated) mail: Project Phoenix streamlines venerable email service

Posted November 15, 2010 - 2:13 pm

AOL is in the process of overhauling its email service and the new offering will be made available in the UK during Q1.
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Social networking slowly taking over e-mail, says Gartner

Posted November 11, 2010 - 5:36 pm

If you find yourself using Facebook to send out work-related emails to coworkers, you're not alone.
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New service follows up (so you don't have to)

Posted September 28, 2010 - 1:00 pm

I've whined and complained in this space several times about Gmail's limited features for time-delaying e-mails. I've told you about two third-party services that help a lot: Hit Me Later and Boomerang. Now I'm going to tell you about an ingenious third service called FollowUpThen.
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The Rise of Personalized Spam

Posted April 6, 2010 - 5:44 pm

We've all seen spam that promises us a million dollars or Euros, but now spam is beginning to show up that's designed just for us.
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Don't trust that Web Address!

Posted March 18, 2010 - 3:46 pm

In the last 24-hours, I received e-mails about March Madness, Sandra Bullock's hubby, and Michael Jackson's estate and each contained a link to Windows malware.
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Three Things Not to Print

Posted January 14, 2010 - 1:08 pm

Once companies start counting their pennies spent printing, they often overreact to what they find. Goodness, they say to themselves, printing costs money, so let's stop printing completely. Oops. A reaction like that will cost you much more than you spend printing. The trick is to figure out what not to print, like e-mail, reports, and memos.
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Users don't buy Microsoft's Exchange 2010 savings claims

Posted November 30, 2009 - 5:10 pm

Microsoft partners say that users are in no hurry to upgrade to Exchange 2010; research says adoption will lag until late 2011.
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Google Apps Trump IBM / Lotus iNotes Lame Offering

Posted October 23, 2009 - 10:50 am

Did you notice Google Apps has a new competitor? Didn't think so. You'd think IBM and Lotus could come up with 1) a better product to compete on Google's turf and 2) figure out a way to make a bigger splash. All we have here are lame offerings created by idiot vice presidents and marketed by other idiot vice presidents.
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Three Ways to Improve Focus and Work Smarter

Posted October 7, 2009 - 4:10 pm

They tell us to “work smarter, not harder” but working harder is, oddly, easier than working smarter. Why? Because no one gives full attention to anything anymore. My slogan is “always connected, always distracted.”
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5 Reasons To Use SharePoint Instead Of Emailing Excel Files

Posted August 6, 2009 - 5:37 pm

SharePoint acts as a basic replacement for shared folders on file servers.
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Lisa, TechnoPhobe, Loves New Netbook

Posted July 13, 2009 - 1:09 pm

When hardcore technophobes start to tell me about their new computer, I usually hear complaints. Last weekend, my friend Lisa told me she was happy with a computer for the first time in her life. Her new system? A netbook, which fulfilled her goals of portability and providing just what she needed finally made her happy about computers.
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Link QuickBooks Contacts to VerticalResponse E-Mail Marketing

Posted June 5, 2009 - 10:28 am

One of the chores people hate most when using computers? Reentering information from one system into another system. After all, you're typing on the same computer, right? And data should be shared right? So why have to virtually schlep things like contact information from one system to another to another to another to get your work done? This week, at least two companies upgraded virtual schlepping to automated contact sharing.
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What the Dallas ITEC Crowd Wanted to Know

Posted May 28, 2009 - 11:46 am

I had a good time meeting and speaking to folks at the Dallas ITEC show yesterday. I mentioned I was going to give the audience at my keynote address a chance to vote on which topics were of highest importance for them. I put this list on the screen:
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Technology Planning For Small Business Growth

Posted April 28, 2009 - 10:52 am

A reply to my post from last week “Is Your Small Business Goal to Grow or Not?” asks an interesting question: if growth is the goal of a small business owner, how do you include technology planning in your development? ArcherTC reported giving little thought beyond what tools to use today. And as software and hardware keep jumping forward, including the scary thought (at least to ArcherTC) of ever-increasing cloud computing options, how does one pick the right technology to support growth?
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Short Straw 1

Posted December 29, 2008 - 11:14 am

If you're reading this at work, it means you're a â€œshort strawâ€ person who picked the short straw to work during a holiday. Welcome to the club. If you're reading this at home because you're in the habit, then I'll try to entertain you a bit.
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E-mail Archiving Stupidity

Posted December 2, 2008 - 1:19 pm

I live in the Dallas area, but not in the city of Dallas. That means my children were outside the horribly mis-managed Dallas schools, but we're still under the thumbs of idiotic Dallas County officials. How idiotic? How about this recent story, â€œE-mail Deletion Plan Criticized,â€ about officials wanting to delete e-mail after 90 days. Have none of them heard of all the new regulations about e-mail archiving?
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