The e-mail app in general looks great: Facebook integration comes into play here, too, so when you load an e-mail it's accompanied with the sender's Facebook portrait as well.

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After the computer boots up, simply log into your Google account and all your apps, e-mail, calendar appointments and contacts load instantly.

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The hero's name is an acronym of his task: Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class, thus WALL-E.

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Some readers load all the novels about a favorite heroine onto their e-readers at once.

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The Americans are trying to use e-mail for routine ground-to-air communication, freeing voice channels and lightening the load for controllers.

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