TalkingTech
The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
This is a plea to web designers, programmers and, most particularly, marketing people, to stop annoying us when we want to unsubscribe from your &^%$#@!* stupid, er, sorry, not interesting to us, email lists. It's also a plea for all of you IT people to talk to these groups in your company and convince them to do some "right thinking" about this issue.
By Mark Gibbs | 12 May, 2012 01:24
Email services company Return Path has set up shop in Sydney, marking the seventh country in which it has a local office.
By Rohan Pearce | 23 March, 2012 16:15
Hoarding shows are popular these days. Hoarders, Hoarding: Buried Alive, Confessions: Animal Hoarding and on and on. The images are consistent: Boxes stacked to the ceilings. Piles of newspapers dating back to the Nixon era. Feral cats skittering behind furniture. Empty cans of cat food, beans and soup scattered everywhere.
By Jeff Vance | 05 March, 2012 22:33
Telstra (ASX: TEL) has confirmed that a small number of BigPond email customers have not been receiving mail since the weekend beginning 4 February.
By Hamish Barwick | 06 February, 2012 16:48
Before I get to this week's main topic I must give a big thumbs-up to a book that all of you who like to cook will thoroughly enjoy: "Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food" by Jeff Potter (pub. O'Reilly).
By Mark Gibbs | 16 December, 2011 12:27
Working with Gmail can be a lot nicer if you use a desktop e-mail program instead of Gmail's Web-based interface.
By Rick Broida | 29 May, 2010 06:47
Today, let's look at a very common source of confusion for novice users: saving and retrieving file attachments.
By Rick Broida | 24 January, 2010 04:24
Do you depend on Microsoft Outlook for your e-mail and scheduling needs? Are you annoyed with the e-mail client? Well, join the club--thousands of Outlook users are lobbying Microsoft for improvements in the next version. But this week let's not just complain about Outlook; I'm here to tell you how to make it better.
By Rick Broida | 29 July, 2009 00:01
Gmail ushered in a whole new way of accessing and managing e-mail. Many people think that it's a major improvement over the old desktop-app approach.
By Adam Pash | 22 July, 2009 00:38
You are judged by the writing style, tone, language, and mistakes in your e-mails every single day. We're all so optimistic we believe people will overlook our e-mail typos and mistakes, while at the same time we privately label those who send us sloppy e-mails as careless, confused, or ineffective.
By James E. Gaskin | 15 July, 2009 07:51
Embedded in the heel of his shoe was an early example of the Internet of Things -- but Andrew Duncan didn't know it at the time.
By Lamont Wood | 10 November, 2011 02:22
Eight percent of online Americans may use Twitter, as the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported on Thursday. But does that mean your small business should use the service in its marketing and communications efforts?
By Katherine Noyes | 11 December, 2010 06:20
Have you checked your work e-mailtoday? If you're like most employees in the United States and United Kingdom, the answer is yes despite the fact that it is not only the weekend, but an extended holiday weekend for most workers in the US. A day off is becoming an increasingly foreign concept as workers stay connected virtually 24/7.
By Tony Bradley | 06 September, 2010 23:43
In the early days, Gmail hooked us with its innovative features, like the way it threaded together e-mails under the same subject.
By Jared Newman | 24 July, 2009 01:55
Last week's online protest against Microsoft Outlook is turning out to be a tempest-in-a-Tweet.
By Eric Lai | 30 June, 2009 05:33
Energy producers from surrounding countries load power onto the Swedish National Grid’s network, with energy suppliers then paying the Swedish National Grid to load onto their grids for them to sell-on to customers. Using Clearswift’s Email Appliance, and MIMEsweeper for SMTP means that the organisation has safe and resilient email helping them to meet their goal of providing a safe, robust, cost-effective and environmentally sound energy transmission system.
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