"Mail you send late night on the weekends may be useful but you may regret it the next morning, " Mail Goggles creator Jon Perlow declared in a description he wrote of the service on the company's labs page.

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Early reports positioned the service as the Xbox's answer to AirPlay, a description that proved fairly apt, though Microsoft certainly went a ways toward fleshing that perception out during a demo at its event.

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Keila Kirkpatrick said she started hearing friends talk about Groupon, a location-based service that deals out a daily bargain in subscribers' hometowns, along with a punchy, fun e-mail description of that deal.

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