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Is Gmail Rejecting Your POP Password? You’re Not Crazy and You’re Not Alone  2,577 Views (This article has 4 comments)
If you retrieve your email via POP from Gmail, you may on occasion find that Gmail completely rejects your password. Now, having Gmail rejecting your POP password can be very disconcerting, not to mention frustrating! Your mail client keeps prompting you for your Gmail password, you keep entering the password that you know is the right password, and Gmail keeps rejecting it. It's enough to drive you crazy.

“Gmail” Outlawed in Germany - To Access Google Gmail in Germany Requires Go-Around  2,143 Views (comments)
Google had its Gmail tail handed to it on a platter when a German court held - not once, but twice (in preliminary and final orders) - that it could not use the name "Gmail" in Germany, as it infringed on a prior user of that name. As a result, Google is banned from using the Gmail name in Germany, and German Gmail users and others in Germany who wish to access the Google email service are banned from accessing the service via the Gmail name.

Gmail Available in Many Different Languages  3,370 Views (This article has 1 comment)
Did you know that people from all over the world use Google Gmail, and not all people want to (or can) use Gmail in English? Welcome to Gmail for the global community, because Gmail . com is now distinctly international. Why have your Gmail sign in greet you in English when your Gmail .com account can be set up for any one of dozens of languages? Quiere correo Gmail? No problema! In fact, the top searches relating to Gmail these days are in foreign languages! Speaking of which, can anybody tell us what these mean?: gmail ustvari nov naslov, gmail geslo, gmail prijava geslo, gmail raziskovalec, gmail sprememba gesla, pozabljeno geslo za gmail, zamenjati geslo gmail, sprememba gesla gmail, gmail prijava, gesla gmail, prijava v gmail, or ustvari gmail?

Federal Court Ruling Boosts Laws About Email Privacy  8,904 Views (This article has 2 comments)
In a Federal ruling this week, personal email privacy laws received a shot in the arm, as the Court ruled that laws about email privacy preclude the government from demanding access to an individual's email from their ISP without notice to the individual, unless they have a warrant based on probable cause.

ICANN Overpayment Refunded to Users by Registrars  1,546 Views (comments)
Recently ICANN agreed to lower a particular fee which they were charging to domain registrars from 25 cents to 22 cents per transaction. That means that for every domain you registered, your registrar has to pay ICANN 3 cents less. Registrars are now rebating that 3 cents, retroactive to July of 2006, back to their customers. So check it out!

Blackberry Network Suffers Major Outage (Updated April 18, 2007)  3,180 Views (This article has 2 comments)
If your Blackberry isn't working, you're not alone. Neither is anybody else's. In fact, Research in Motion (RIM) is experiencing what may be their largest network outage ever, affecting users of their (overly)popular Blackberry device around the world. Reports from the U.S., Canada, and the UK abound.

Hotmail Servers Down - Again  32,244 Views (This article has 87 comments)
Can't get into your Hotmail email? Not getting that expected email from a Hotmail user? That's because the Hotmail servers are down, again.

Did Yahoo Groups Glitch Leads to Overloaded Inboxes  2,253 Views (This article has 8 comments)
The Internet Patrol has started receiving reports that something has gone amiss over at Yahoo Groups, with as many as a dozen or more of each message being delivered, causing user's inboxes to be overloaded, and group moderators to receive several copies of even administrative requests.

Yahoo Offers Unlimited Email Storage  2,227 Views (This article has 5 comments)
Yahoo has just announced that all of their users will have unlimited email storage capacity available to them by May. And that it will be free!

Has Your Gmail Email Disappeared? You’re Not Alone  5,416 Views (This article has 9 comments)
Over the holidays, many people logged in to their Gmail accounts only to find that their email had vanished. Gone. Nowhere to be found. Their Gmail email had completely disappeared.

Boxbe: Yet Another “Sender Pays to Get Into Your Inbox” Email Model  2,868 Views (This article has 2 comments)
Ho hum. It looks like yet another company has decided to try to make the "sender pays to get into your inbox" model work. Last time it was Affini, this time it's Boxbe, and there have probably been countless others in between. But it all boils down to one thing: It ain't gonna work.

The Perfect Way to Send Email Newsletters! Christmas Newsletters, Ezine Publishing, and Blog to Newsletter, All Right Here!  4,479 Views (comments)
Our new email newsletter publishing service is the perfect way to send out Christmas newsletters for the holidays, and email newsletters all year round! Whether you are an individual, a small or non-profit organization, or a big corporation, our pre-accredited email newsletter service provides you with premium services at a budget price! Perfect whether you want to send family newsletters or corporate email newsletters, or try your hand at ezine publishing! And with our unique automatic "blog-to-newsletter" service you can publish an article on your blog and have it automatically sent as a newsletter at the same time!

An Open Letter to ISPs re: Net Neutrality  1,453 Views (This article has 1 comment)
Net neutrality is a hot topic right now. Here's what one Internet business owner and customer has to say about it.

Verizon Blocking Email: Couldn’t Get Email to Verizon? Couldn’t Receive Email at Verizon? Here’s Why!  6,898 Views (This article has 8 comments)
Verizon was blocking email to Verizon customers and bouncing email from ISPs the world over, as millions of Verizon email customers and those sending email to them were affected over the weekend and beyond when Verizon's anti-spam spam blocking technology went astray.

Verizon Wireless Agrees to Compensate Customers for Lost Email to Settle Verizon Lawsuit  2,840 Views (This article has 2 comments)
Resolution in the Verizon lawsuit! Verizon Wireless has reached a settlement agreement in a lawsuit which pitted Verizon Wireless customers against Verizon Wireless and its policy of blocking all incoming email from outside of the United States.

Free Email Worth a Lot to Yahoo and Gmail  1,785 Views (This article has 2 comments)
Free email providers get far more out of free email services than do the users of the free email services.

Cingular Email Brings Email to Subscribers’ Cell Phones  2,026 Views (comments)
Cingular Wireless is providing customers with Cingular email access to their AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts through their existing cell phones.

Military Blocking Access to Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and Gmail for Overseas Troops  6,544 Views (This article has 15 comments)
Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and Gmail access is being denied to military personnel in the Navy and the Marines who are stationed overseas. The military has blocked access from all government-owned computers, citing concerns about computer security and viruses.

Free Email Comes with a Price - Hotmail, Yahoo Email, Gmail - Worth It?  6,325 Views (This article has 9 comments)
Hotmail, Yahoo email, Gmail, and other free email services may be free, but they come with a price. Is it worth it?

ISPs Oppose Verizon - MCI Merger and SBC - ATT Aquisition, Claim “Secret Agenda”  1,823 Views (comments)
Many people and organizations are opposed to the proposed merger of Verizon and MCI, believeing that it would create a monopoly of unprecedented proportions and power. One of the largest state associations of ISPs, the California ISP Association (CISPA) testified before the ...

Know Thy Host (Before You Buy Webhosting)  1,882 Views (This article has 1 comment)
According to a site with the rather unlikely and cumbersome name of "dating-webhosting.com", as many as 60% of all webhosting sites do not deliver what they promise. Indeed, according to dating-webhosting.com, they may take your money and not deliver at all. Says a note ...

Ready..AIM….Fight! Or It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Has You In Their Buddy List  3,923 Views (This article has 3 comments)
With apologies to John "Bluto" Blutarsky, "AIM Fight!" What the heck is "AIM Fight?", Aunty can already hear her readers scratching their collective heads. Well, you know all of those 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon friend-of-a-friend sites which have become so popular (or ...

AOL AIM Mail - 2Gig and a Chance at a Mini Cooper  1,956 Views (This article has 2 comments)
Remember how last month Aunty told you about AOL's new AIM Mail free web mail service? Well, AOL has not only made it official that they are providing 2gig of email storage, putting them squarely in competition with both Gmail and Yahoo, but they ...

Biggest ISPs? The Answer May Surprise You.  2,202 Views (This article has 2 comments)
Every year Security Space puts out a report on the top ISPs, measured by number of web servers hosted on the ISP's networks. Who do you think that the top three ISPs are? Well, if you said MSN, AOL and/or Earthlink, well, you'd ...

Is MSN Discriminating Against FireFox’s Right-Click on the MSN Website?  2,013 Views (This article has 3 comments)
The conspiracy theorists are out in force, this time accusing Microsoft's MSN of intentionally disabling the right click function in FireFox, while not doing the same for Internet Explorer (IE). Now,mind you, just because Microsoft engenders its share of conspiracy theorists doesn't ...

Is the T-Mobile Sidekick About to Become the MCI Sidekick?  1,714 Views (comments)
Is the T-Mobile Sidekick About to Become the MCI Sidekick? This news release just came across Aunty's desk, and inquiring minds want to know!: ASHBURN, Va., June 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MCI, Inc. today announced a four-year agreement with Danger, Inc., provider ...

.eu Applications Can Now be Accepted by Officially Accredited Registrars (News Release)  1,407 Views (comments)
.EU Domain name applications can now be officially submitted. EuroDNS, the leading Luxembourg-based European Domain Name Registrar, is now an Official Accredited .EU Registrar, and is accepting applications for ‘.eu’ Domain Names. Bearing in mind that the ‘First Come First Served’ rule always ...

EarthLink Wins Prestigious CNET Editors’ Choice Award for Web Hosting (News Release)  1,425 Views (comments)
Congratulations, Earthlink! A leader in legal action against spammers, in the PC World "Best ISP" survey, and now a leader in web hosting! ATLANTA, June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), the nation's next generation Internet service provider, today announced that ...

Survey Says! Best ISP Is…  2,338 Views (This article has 1 comment)
PC World has just released a survey they took of more than 6,000 Internet users, in order to determine who the best ISP was. And the answers may surprise you. The 6,000 survey participants, all PC World subscribers, were asked to rate their ...

Hotmail Users: Wondering Where Your Email Has Gone? Look in Your Junkfolder - Hotmail Requiring Sender ID  3,414 Views (This article has 6 comments)
Microsoft has just announced that they are now requiring that email sent to Hotmail accounts must use Microsoft Sender I.D. or the email will be marked with a big yellow box and put in the junk folder or maybe even deleted. That ...

Feds Set Sights on ISP Records, Vote to Protect Libraries and Book Stores from Patriot Act  1,828 Views (This article has 6 comments)
The United States House of Representatives has voted to restrict the Patriot Act so that it cannot be used to pry into the library borrowing and book purchasing of U.S. citizens. You would think that this would be a no-brainer - ...

Microsoft Admits to Censoring in China  1,483 Views (comments)
Earlier this week Aunty reported to you that Microsoft was censoring Chinese users of its new Chinese-based web and blogging portal. Today Silicon.com is reporting that Microsoft has confirmed this in an email to Silicon.com, in which Microsoft admits that it does maintain a ...

ISP Not Responsible for Policing Zombies Says Jury of ITs Peers  1,766 Views (comments)
A mock trial, in which ISPs were sued for damage done by a zombie network to a few fictitious companies' business and financial interests, found that a jury of IT professionals overwhelmingly held the opinion that the ISPs were not responsible for the ...

ISP RoadRunner Must Give Up Identity of User Claimed to Slander Public Relations Society of America’s Bolton  2,301 Views (This article has 2 comments)
A New York judge has ruled that Internet service provider RoadRunner must reveal the identity of a customer who sent email to the Public Relations Society of America's board of directors, claiming that the Public Relations Society of America's executive director, Catherine A. ...

Earthlink Announces First Market Trial of Innovative Bundle of Phone Services and High Speed Internet (News Release)  1,769 Views (This article has 1 comment)
Commercial Trials Set for Dallas, San Francisco, San Jose and Seattle San Jose, Calif and Atlanta (June 6, 2005) — Covad and EarthLink, the nation’s next generation Internet Service Provider, today announced a new Voice over IP (VoIP) joint market trial that will give ...

AOL Instant Messenger Mail Now Available - Taking AIM at a New Market  2,768 Views (comments)
AOL's previously announced Instant Messenger-based AIM Mail email system is now a reality. Windows users who upgrade to the new AIM version 5.9 will have access to the new web-mail service, which is one of the first of its kind to integrate instant messenger ...

Yahoo Sued for Failure to Remove Dirty Pictures of User  4,103 Views (This article has 13 comments)
According to Cecilia Barnes, men have shown up at her place of employment in Oregon expecting to be able to have sex with her. Which is odd, because she's not a sex therapist or a prostitute. Perhaps less odd, though, ...

Free Hosting Industry Targets more Advanced Internet User  1,422 Views (This article has 1 comment)
WebsiteAllies.com caters to a more tech-savvy audience by offering features beyond the standard free hosting services. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) May 14, 2005 -- Free Web site hosting is no longer just for the novice internet user on a budget. Free hosting companies are ...

AIM Mail: AOL Jumps on the 2Gig Webmail Bandwagon with AOL Instant Messenger Mail  2,628 Views (This article has 4 comments)
With the introduction of its new AIM Mail service, Internet giant America Online (AOL) has jumped on the "free webmail with 2 gigabytes of storage" bandwagon, but with an added twist: the new service is tied in to your AOL Instant Messenger ...

Yahoo Matches Gmail’s 1 Gig of Storage, But is it Too Little Too Late?  1,725 Views (This article has 3 comments)
Yep, they've finally done it. Yahoo has matched Gmail's watershed 1GB (gigabyte) of email storage. According to the splash screen at http://whatsnew.mail.yahoo.com, "By early May, all free Yahoo! Mail users will receive an email storage increase to a whopping 1GB. That's enough ...

Do You Suffer from Email Domain Shame? Many AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo and Other Users Do  5,251 Views (This article has 13 comments)
Have you heard about "domain shame"? Do you, perhaps, even suffer from domain shame? Or maybe you are one of the legion of users who identify those who should suffer from domain shame? The term "domain shame", recently coined by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Don Fernandez, refers to how you feel about and how others perceive that bit to the right of the "@" symbol in your email address.

Goowy Mail: It’s webmail! It’s a desktop client! It’s two, two, two look-and-feels in one!  2,079 Views (This article has 3 comments)
From the fine people who first brought you Geocities comes Goowy mail. Goowy mail is, so far as Aunty knows, the first commercial scale web-based email application built on Flash. This allows Goowy to offer a free webmail ...

Comcast Experiences Widespread Outage, Again, and Again, and Again  20,515 Views (This article has 27 comments)
Internet provider ComCast experienced a widespread outage today, knocking countless Comcast customers off the Internet for the duration. The notice on the Comcast website is short and to the point, acknowledging the outage by saying "Connection to the Internet is currently unavailable. ...

The End of MSN for Mac  1,971 Views (This article has 4 comments)
MSN for Mac OS X will soon be a thing of the past. Microsoft has announced that they will no longer be offering or supporting their MSN service for Mac OS X, effective May 31st of this year. Said a Microsoft ...

Will Read Your Spam for Money  1,501 Views (comments)
Scott "I'm going straight" Richter wants you to know that he has a sense of humour, and so he sent Aunty this story from the Onion to share with you all: Immigrant Laborers Hired to Delete Spam SAN DIEGO—Executives at Gortman Consulting are hiring immigrant ...

Verizon Sued for Blocking Email from Around the World  2,595 Views (This article has 2 comments)
Verizon Online is being sued by their subscribers for blocking incoming email from entire countries.

Microsoft Offers Outlook Bundled with Paid Email Service  2,250 Views (This article has 5 comments)
Microsoft announced today that it is about to start offering a stand-alone version of Outlook, separate from Office, which includes both a copy of Outlook and a subscription to either a Hotmail or MSN email account. In September Microsoft discontinued its service ...

Panix in a Panic as Entire ISP Domain Gets Hijacked  1,259 Views (comments)
Internet service provider Panix.com found that their entire domain was hijacked over the weekend. The ISP, which serves the greater New York City area, found that the domain had been moved from their own registrar to one in Australia, that their DNS ...

Inside Source: “Verizon is Blocking Inbound Email from non-U.S. Sites”  4,738 Views (This article has 23 comments)
Word on the street was that Verizon for some reason known only to them had decided to block all (or at least nearly all) email which was not sent from inside of the good old USA.

Is Verizon Blocking Incoming Email from Non-U.S. Internet Domains?  3,279 Views (This article has 8 comments)
Rumours abound that Verizon.net, the ISP branch of telecommunications company Verizon, Inc., is blocking inbound email communications originating from outside of the United States

AOL Users See Sharp Decrease in Spam  2,039 Views (This article has 6 comments)
ISP giant America Online (AOL) has announced that their users have seen a dramatic decrease in spam over the course of the past year. According to AOL, spam messages reported by members for this past month, November 2004, numbered about 2.2 million per day, ...

AOL Enters Free WebMail Arena  2,834 Views (This article has 1 comment)
Internet giant America Online (AOL) has said that they are in beta testing with a new free webmail service, along the lines of Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail. Dubbed "AOL Mail on the Web" (AMW? AOLMW?), it is already available to existing AOL ...

Yahoo Refuses Family Access to Slain Son’s Email  2,270 Views (This article has 2 comments)
There are just so many facets and angles to this story, it's almost impossible to determine if there is a right and a wrong, let alone who is which. Justin Ellsworth, of Wixom, Michigan, was killed last month while on foot patrol in Iraq. John ...

Digital PhishNet Initiative Announced by ISPs, Federal Agencies  1,616 Views (comments)
Microsoft, AOL, Earthlink, and several other industry giants, along with the FBI, the FTC, the U.S. Secret Service, and the USPS announced today the formation of Digital PhishNet, a collaborative initiative designed to take phishers down by arresting and convicting them. "The key to ...

Gmail for Outlook and Other POP Clients  3,359 Views (This article has 6 comments)
Google has announced that their Gmail service is going to start offering POP access to users' email accounts, meaning that rather than having to log in through Gmail's web interface, users will be able to download their Gmail to their own computer using ...

Apache and Debian Tell Microsoft that Sender I.D. is Still Deficient  1,727 Views (This article has 2 comments)
As Aunty reported back in October, Microsoft reintroduced its roundly rejected Sender I.D. proposal, after, it says, reworking it a bit to meet some of the objections which did it in the first time. And true, to their credit, they did address ...

Microsoft Breathes New Life Into Sender I.D. - AOL on Resuscitatation Team  1,451 Views (This article has 2 comments)
There is a new chapter in the debacle which started with Microsoft's extending and embracing of SPF and its advocate, Meng Weng Wong, and which culiminated in the collapse of an empire (well, ok, of the IETF working group tasked with evaluating Sender ...

No More Free Outlook Connection for Hotmail - Spammers to Blame  5,688 Views (This article has 15 comments)
Microsoft has announced that it will no longer be offering for free its service which allows users to connect to their Hotmail and MSN accounts using Outlook and Outlook Express. Citing exploitation by spammers, Microsoft will begin charging those who want to use the ...

Dmail: Alternative to Email Promises to End Spam  2,352 Views (This article has 4 comments)
Dear Gentle Readers, Remember before everybody had email, and people logged in to private bulletin board systems ("BBS")? If you long for the days when internal correspondence at the office was hand-delivered in those yellow 8x11 envelopes with 172 names scratched out and yours ...

Court Rules that ISPs May Read Customers’ Email Without Their Knowledge  2,180 Views (This article has 14 comments)
Gentle Readers, This week a United States Court of Appeals in Massachusetts held that an ISP may read a customer's email without the customer's knowledge or permission. Yes, you read that right. It is not illegal for an ISP to read its customer's email, ...

California Senate Sends Gmail a Message  1,724 Views (This article has 1 comment)
The BBC reports today that the California Senate has passed SB 1822, aimed at limiting Google's ability to scan email coming in to the users of their Gmail system, and also limiting Google's ability to archive and sell the resulting information. Now, Aunty is ...

Gmail’s Spam Filter Isn’t So Hot, But We Can Get You to Zimbabwe Cheap!  2,293 Views (This article has 2 comments)
I've been testing Google's Gmail for 5 days now, since April 18th. Woohoo. In addition to openly soliciting email to the account, and even posting the address on the web (shedevil@gmail.com), I've forwarded all of my email coming to my other accounts to ...

Stalking the Wild Gmail Account: First Impressions  1,529 Views (comments)
Somehow, I lucked into having a Gmail beta account (who knew I had friends in those high places?) Here are my first impressions: First, Gmail doesn't work with Safari; very annoying. It does, however, work with Firefox. I also found it frustrating ...

Gmail: email Gspot or Gmen?  10,093 Views (This article has 17 comments)
Much has been made in the past dozen days about Google's announcement of their new service, Gmail. First, the press release was leaked on April 1st, leading to wide speculation: was it an April Fool's gag, or was it not? (It wasn't.) Then ...
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