Users of Mac OS X will soon have an e-mail program that supports Microsoft Exchange.
Putting the two together Mr Tomlinson came up with the first e-mail program.
The Kournikova virus, which only affected those using Microsoft's popular Outlook e-mail program, went on the rampage in February.
In Singapore, another programmer is working on a Tamil e-mail program.
Its speediness results from its ability to trigger the recipient's e-mail program to send a copy of itself to everyone listed in the program's address book.
The programs sift through old and new documents and e-mail far more efficiently than the search software that comes preinstalled with Microsoft Windows and the Outlook e-mail program.
By attacking a loophole in Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program it has rewritten laws of virus prevention and punched a big hole in PC users security systems that others can drive through.
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The machine itself ships with a couple of good games, the AppleWorks (formerly ClarisWorks) word-processing and spreadsheet package, some graphics software, both the Microsoft and Netscape Web browsers, and a good e-mail program.
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Another change was a spell checker that keeps an eye on every bit of text typed in almost any Firefox browser box be it in a web-based e-mail program or an add-on that lets people post blog updates directly.
Exploiting the preview pane feature in Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program (which allows users to see a message in a small window before they open it) BubbleBoy can infect your PC even if you don't open the attachment it is hiding in.
It talks with iChat and with Mail, Apple's new e-mail program, and will also work with Palm OS-based handheld computers, like those from Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ), Handspring (nasdaq: HAND - news - people ) or Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ).
In mid July, the New York Times accused the FDA of creating a massive e-mail surveillance program designed to net junior scientists and other critics who complained the agency was too-quick to approve medical devices that the employees maintained posed unacceptable health risks.
Along with e-mail, the program will support Outlook's calendar and address book features.
There are many people who's Internet interactions revolve almost entirely around Facebook, which serves up their news and entertainment and acts as both an e-mail and chat program.
That makes it especially insidious, as users can infect their computer with software that gives hackers remote access to their desktops without downloading an e-mail attachment or running a program.
VideoMail provides a built-in Internet mail program, or if you prefer, it will work with other e-mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook.
"We told Coach Kearney and Mr. Howard that such a relationship crosses the line of trust placed in the head coach for all aspects of the athletic program and the best interests of the student-athletes in the program, " she said in an e-mail to CNN Sunday night.
You can program your e-mail to send messages in the wee hours while you're asleep, to give the appearance that you're toiling away at 2 a.m.
The team patching the security hole in the server is different from the one working on the October intrusion, which was achieved using an attack program hidden in e-mail, said Rick Miller, another Microsoft spokesman.
Van der Grift has no information on programs causing conflicts with Poproxy, but said there has been another cause blocking access to e-mail: unknowing users incorrectly disable the Poproxy program because they don't trust it.
"The causes of last year's mishaps must be remedied so they do not occur in the future, " Marilyn Heiman, director of the Pew Charitable Trusts' Arctic program, said in an e-mail.
It was the first mail search program I installed on my machine, and it did an incredibly good job searching for e-mail.
Once you downloaded Plaxo, the program would mine your address book and e-mail every contact with a message, coaxing them to sign up for the service.
Then in 1971 Ray Tomlinson wrote a little program to send messages across the system and e-mail was born.
It featured its own spreadsheet program, word processor, web browser, and e-mail client.
Like the other programs, it took the MSN program an afternoon to create an index of all the e-mail and files on my hard drive.
The move caught the attention of Samuel Beshers, the university's neuroscience program coordinator, who pointed Holmes application to a colleague in an e-mail.
Cook had promised in a recent e-mail to his staff that Apple wouldn't change under his leadership, but he introduced at least one corporate program that would have been out of character for Jobs.
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