Free email providers get far more out of free email services than do the users of the free email services.

Cingular Wireless is providing customers with Cingular email access to their AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts through their existing cell phones.

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.

Hotmail, Yahoo email, Gmail, and other free email services may be free, but they come with a price. Is it worth it?

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 from the company, dating-webhosting.com “signed up…

With apologies to John “Bluto” Blutarsky, “AIM Fight!” What the heck is “AIM Fight?”, we can already hear our 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 reviled, depending on where you stand) over…

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 are giving away cool prizes, to…

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 be wrong. In fact, AOL and MSN…

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 mean that they aren’t out to get you….

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 of the hiptop(R) mobile Internet platform, the software and…

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 ISPs on a scale of 1 to…

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 big yellow box across the top of the…

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 – nobody I know wants to live in a state…

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 list of forbidden words and phrases,…

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 damage flowing from their networks via the…