Companies such as Plaxo, which help to synchronise address books, and Google itself, which has a primitive address book in its web-mail service, plan to turn these books into fully fledged social graphs that can do useful and productive things, perhaps including new variants of mini-feeds.
While free Web services produced just 6% of the Internet's pill-hawking and scam-pitching e-mail a year ago, automated spam programs exploiting Web e-mail services now produce more than 12% of digital junk mail, with Microsoft's Webmail services alone accounting for around 4%.
Over the past year, the volume of spam e-mail from Web-based mail services like Gmail, Yahoo!
Your domain can't have a Web or e-mail presence unless it's hosted--though your registrar may provide some hosting services for a Web presence and e-mail account at a reasonable cost (or gratis).
For years now, Gmail has been widely considered the cleanest and easiest Web-based mail system.
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At U.S.-based Stanford Business School, networking between graduates is aided by the use of a specially created Web-based e-mail system.
Now, with satellite communication and Web-based mail, our soldiers, we attest, can be here and there at the same time.
Mostly they're just not interested -- not in the Web, e-mail, YouTube, Facebook or anything else that happens online.
Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people )wants to encourage businesses to equip workers with mobile devices and use mobile e-mail and Web-based applications, thus increasing use of their networks.
Because DirecPC is still tethered to phone-line modems for Web page and e-mail requests, I must dial into my regular Internet service provider to get started online.
Many non-smartphones now come with Web browsers, e-mail service and other Internet-enabled features.
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This scanner also comes with the obligatory one-year warranty and Internet-based help via HP's Web site and e-mail service.
Employers may find themselves competing with each other for the best workers with promises not to monitor their e-mail traffic or web-browsing habits, or by offering strict limits on the use of corporate surveillance cameras.
But in a sign of how technology already has transformed the fundamental dynamics of the party, each of the six candidates appears to be campaigning as if the job were a popularly elected office -- unveiling sleek Web sites, circulating e-mail pitches to supporters and holding conference calls with members of the media and conservative bloggers.
Most such businesses can't afford the staff and hassle required to navigate a sea of local, long-distance and wireless carriers, Internet and application service providers and Web site and e-mail hosts.
While hooked into Wi-Fi hot spots, the iPhone introduced last year can blaze through Web pages and e-mail.
He has also worked on Internet protocols and is a co-author of the Internet Engineering Task Force's MHTML standard for sending Web pages as e-mail.
The longer it takes them to figure out how to process, for example, a discarded Treo 600--a 32-megabyte gadget with phone, e-mail, Web access, an organizer and a camera--the less ReCellular will be able to resell it for.
She stumbled upon the Work-At-Home Moms Web site and joined its E-mail networking list.
The Web site and e-mail system crashed the second day that she was there.
Some Web-based e-mail services like Google's Gmail offer tools to add an extra layer of protection.
Ever since Google launched Gmail, its clean, Web-based e-mail service, everyone else has been playing catch up.
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ValueClick is a provider of technology products and services to companies that advertise on the web and through e-mail.
This scheme works fine if you just surf the Web and check e-mail, but it's too limiting for many users.
It is true that the combined firm would dominate the markets for instant messaging and web-based e-mail, but neither is lucrative.
The XT780 brings Social TV and media, Google Play, web search, e-mail, shopping, news and online videos straight to users' fingertips.
Just 6m of China's 50m or so internet users have shopped online (most use the web only for e-mail and news).
Blogger has a simple interface for writing posts and uploading photos, which is similar to using a Web-based e-mail service to write an e-mail.
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