So Microsoft launched a new email service today -- not a redesigned version of Hotmail, but a completely new, built-from-the-ground-up service.
Not only do you have to think about calling the utility company, you have worry about getting a new email address and Twitter handle.
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Monday Facebook launched a new email client.
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For example, Inky.com, which is working on a new email client, bought up in.ky to prevent squatters from taking it (and perhaps to use as an actual domain should they ever have enough money to move some of it to the Cayman Islands as an offshore tax haven).
Skype staff: We send a welcome email to the registered email address whenever a new account is set up using that email.
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More interesting than that, the mail team is working on a new version of email that rethinks the inbox as a kind of Twitter-like stream.
Seven days later, the BMW dealership where the couple was shopping for a new car sent an email apologizing, calling it a misunderstanding.
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While deploying profiles is common at the enterprise level, encouraging users to click a link in an email to download a new profile for their phone may be educating users to perform risky behaviors.
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About two weeks ago, I reported that a new version of bogus IRS email was making the rounds with a notice about EINs and Home-care Service Recipients.
But even better is that every day, he sends out a daily email with a new cartoon.
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Google has devised a great new way to organize your email: Google inspects your stuff and decides what is important to you.
The Mountain View company is not the first to do this -- Apple did it with the iPhone and iPad back in 2010 -- but email is a relatively new frontier.
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We just received a "save the date" email from a Samsung US representative that revealed a new Galaxy device will be seeing the light of day on August 15th.
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Ron Villejo commented on the post and sent a follow-up email, taking this part of the discussion to a new level.
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Popup Browser launches a new browser window when a user clicks on a link embedded in an email.
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"We start early so that we can identify and upgrade sites where we know there is going to be high usage as a result of large gatherings of people celebrating the New Year, " a spokesman told the BBC in an email.
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According to the HR email, this is a new policy across the board for all employees.
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New technology like email, cell phones and, especially, personal computers, fueled a new era in workplace productivity.
Email is far too new a tool for most people to fully recognize the stranglehold it has on productivity.
Chris Kaye is Editorial Director of The Rundown ( www.rundown.com), a Los Angeles-based email newsletter with New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and USA editions.
Because Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola did not embrace convergence so readily, disregarding information technology as forever secondary to voice, they allowed a new product to enter the market, mobile email, without giving it much consideration.
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Astonishingly, Abrams sent his email just days after a blockbuster New York Times story about the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and other bad behavior at Tribune since Sam Zell took over the company in 2007.
In a mix of old and new, Integrate PR reached out to renters by acquiring email addresses from landlords and property managers and conducting a direct email marketing campaign.
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Yes, they claim to have a new operating system and things like one-swipe email access from any app, but time and technology wait for no man.
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In an important Order, Magistrate Judge Kathleen Tomlinson of the Eastern District of New York held that a non-privileged intermediary email in a chain of otherwise privileged emails cannot be withheld from discovery requests.
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Earlier this month, Christopher Lee, a married New York congressman, quickly resigned from the House after Gawker published a shirtless photo of him and an email exchange with a woman in response to her Craigslist personal ad.
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To give you an example, here is a snippet from an email exchange that I recently had with an ETF provider concerning the high expense ratio of a new fund and how they were marketing the product.
Start-up Posterous, best known for its simple blogging service via email, has revamped the company around a new product called Posterous Spaces.
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That means IT administrators need to authorize Chatter usage and potential members have to first receive an invite to join. (A new Web site Salesforce is launching in February may address this.) Meanwhile, anyone with a corporate email account can sign up for Yammer.
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You'll get an email alerting you to the price drop and a new confirmation number.
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