Notify makes it easier to keep an eye on Gmail
If you use Gmail for your primary e-mail account, but don’t access it using a dedicated email client (or a dedicated Gmail app such as Mailplane), you know how much of a hassle it can be to periodically check the Gmail site for new messages. Thankfully, there are a good number of third-party programs and utilities that can alert you to new Gmail e-mail.
How to extract your LinkedIn contacts
A new service from Open Xchange allows you to both import and export your contacts and collaborate on calendars and documents across the Internet, all using open source.
Researcher refutes Microsoft's account of hijacked Hotmail passwords
A security researcher at ScanSafe isn't buying Microsoft's and Google's explanation that hijacked Hotmail and Gmail passwords were obtained in a massive phishing attack. She blames botnets and keylogging.
Google, bank end dispute over Gmail account
A federal judge in California has vacated a temporary restraining order that directed Google Inc. to deactivate a Gmail account in response to a complaint filed by the Rocky Mountain Bank of Wyoming.
Is Criticism Of Google's Outages Unfair?
Give Google a break: Statistics show its reliability to actually be very good. It's the media that makes a big deal of Gmail and Gnews outages, not users.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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