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Is Gmail Rejecting Your POP Password? You’re Not Crazy and You’re Not Alone

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.

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“Gmail” Outlawed in Germany – To Access Google Gmail in Germany Requires Go-Around

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.

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Gmail Available in Many Different Languages

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?

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Federal Court Ruling Boosts Laws About Email Privacy

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.

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ICANN Overpayment Refunded to Users by Registrars

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!

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Blackberry Network Suffers Major Outage (Updated April 18, 2007)

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.

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Hotmail Servers Down – Again

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.

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Did Yahoo Groups Glitch Leads to Overloaded Inboxes

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.

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Yahoo Offers Unlimited Email Storage

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!

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Has Your Gmail Email Disappeared? You’re Not Alone

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.

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Boxbe: Yet Another “Sender Pays to Get Into Your Inbox” Email Model

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.

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The Perfect Way to Send Email Newsletters! Christmas Newsletters, Ezine Publishing, and Blog to Newsletter, All Right Here!

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!

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An Open Letter to ISPs re: Net Neutrality

Net neutrality is a hot topic right now. Here’s what one Internet business owner and customer has to say about it.

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Verizon Blocking Email: Couldn’t Get Email to Verizon? Couldn’t Receive Email at Verizon? Here’s Why!

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.

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Verizon Wireless Agrees to Compensate Customers for Lost Email to Settle Verizon Lawsuit

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.