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What the Heck Is a 'Cable' Anyway?

No, the State Department isn't sending telegraphs

(Newser) - When WikiLeaks released 250,000 classified State Department cables, it raised an inevitable question: The State Department still sends cables? Fear not; our diplomats aren’t actually communicating in Morse code, Slate’s Explainer column assures us. Though “cables” used to refer to telegraphs, these days they’re basically...

59% of Us Will Check Email on Thanksgiving

We interrupt this dinner to bring you a message from the boss

(Newser) - Who's really the turkey on Thanksgiving? It may be the 59% of us who will interrupt our holiday to check our email. And of those inbox slaves, 55% will check their work email at least once. The stats come courtesy of a Xobni/Harris Interactive survey of 2,179 adults, which...

Facebook Messages: Why You Shouldn't Ditch Your Email
Why You Shouldn't Ditch
Your Email for Facebook
OPINION
Nov 16, 2010 8:15 AM CST

Why You Shouldn't Ditch Your Email for Facebook

Zuckerberg's basket may not be best place for all your eggs

(Newser) - Facebook's new messaging system incorporates email—as well as SMS, IMs, and Facebook Chat—but it's not smart to ditch your old email for a Facebook.com address, argues Adam Pash at Lifehacker, explaining three main reasons:
  • It's not email, as even Mark Zuckerberg says . All emails with the same
...

Facebook Messages Is 'Not Email,' Says Zuckerberg

But congrats on your new @facebook.com address

(Newser) - Facebook today unveiled "Messages," which has been hyped as its " Gmail killer —but Mark Zuckerberg instantly threw his audience a curve ball. “It’s not email,” the CEO announced, according to the Guardian . “This is not an email-killer. This is a messaging system...

We're Not Open to Talks: Taliban Boss

Mullah Mohammed Omar says insurgents are winning war

(Newser) - Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has once again denied that the insurgents are open to talks with the Afghan government. In a message for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, Omar argues insurgents in Afghanistan are winning the war. "Claims about negotiation, flexibility in the stance of the Islamic...

Aol Gets Back in the Email Game
 Aol Gets Back in the Email Game 
Nov 14, 2010 6:14 PM CST

Aol Gets Back in the Email Game

Will 'Project Phoenix' indeed rise from the ashes?

(Newser) - Aol practically introduced us to email back in the 1990s, but it’s since lost out to Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google, which boast hundreds of millions more users. Now, it’s aiming to get itself back into the email game with the launch of Project Phoenix, which aims to “...

Probe: Web Firm Sells IDs, Personal Data
 Web Firm Sells IDs, 
 Personal Data 
investigation
Oct 25, 2010 4:41 AM CDT

Web Firm Sells IDs, Personal Data

RapLeaf takes online tracking a step further

(Newser) - Most of us know that web firms track our interests and affiliations by following our online activity. But at least one firm, RapLeaf, follows the digital trail a step further, linking people's virtual behavior to the real world by collecting specific names and email address and selling them to advertising...

It's a Snap to Impersonate Someone on Facebook

So maybe it's time fix this little loophole?

(Newser) - Impersonating somebody on Facebook is way too easy, writes Michael Arrington at TechCrunch . To prove his point, he recreated a fake profile for Google CEO Eric Schmidt and soon started adding friends such as YouTube founder Chad Hurley and Facebook VP Elliot Schrage. "One person even sent a fairly...

Steve Jobs Has Email Tiff With College Student

'Please leave us alone,' he tells her

(Newser) - Another little spat involving Steve Jobs' email: Gawker's Adrien Chen reprints a not-so-pleasant exchange here between a college journalism student and the Apple CEO that ends with him telling her, "Please leave us alone." Earlier, when she asked for help with Apple's PR staff, he answered, "Our...

'Here You Have' Virus Slams Major Firms

Spam worm halts work at NASA, Comcast

(Newser) - An email spam virus swept through corporate America's inboxes yesterday, causing servers to be shut down at major operations including Comcast, AIG, Disney, and NASA. The virus spread through emails with the subject line "Here you have," which contained a link that downloads a virus that sends the...

Gmail Unveils Inbox Manager
 Gmail Unveils Inbox Manager 
Aug 31, 2010 5:59 PM CDT

Gmail Unveils Inbox Manager

' Priority Inbox' designed to help make email more efficient

(Newser) - Google has a new Gmail tool to help users manage their inboxes. "Priority Inbox" splits the inbox into three categories: important messages, starred messages, and the rest. Priority Inbox's utility lies in the algorithms that determine which messages to automatically flag as "important" to you—it looks at...

Robber Caught After Taunting Cops in Email
Robber Caught After
Taunting Cops in Email
stupid criminals dept
Aug 20, 2010 1:31 PM CDT

Robber Caught After Taunting Cops in Email

They quickly traced it back to him

(Newser) - A German teen was arrested after police traced an email—in which he criticized the investigation of a burglary he had perpetrated—straight back to him, Reuters reports. The 19-year-old taunted cops for getting his age, height, and accent wrong in official reports of a bank theft he'd pulled in...

Gmail Storage Isn't Infinite, After All

And some select users are maxing out

(Newser) - When Gmail launched in 2004, its slogan was "never delete an e-mail again." Six years of ever-expanding attachments later, a few users have maxed out and, well, needed to delete an email. Again. Mashable congratulates Mike Monteiro, the most recent person to use all of the allotted 7....

Website: Steve Jobs Emails Were Real

Tech site accuses Apple's PR team of lying

(Newser) - This little tempest in the tech world isn't going away: Boy Genius Report today is lashing back at Apple and insisting that the email exchange it published between Steve Jobs and a customer is legit. (Jobs tells him to "calm down" about iPhone "rumors.") BGR says...

Steve Jobs iPhone Emails Fake: Apple

Apple CEO did not tell customer to 'calm down'

(Newser) - An email conversation between Steve Jobs and an irate iPhone 4 customer is fake, Apple's PR department says. The messages show Jobs taking a flippant tone with a customer who is angry over the new handset's widely criticized reception issues, Fortune reports. In one response, the Jobs impostor tells the...

Look Out, Gmail: Revamped Hotmail Is Sharp
Look Out, Gmail: Revamped Hotmail Is Sharp
tech review
May 25, 2010 12:57 PM CDT

Look Out, Gmail: Revamped Hotmail Is Sharp

Your old email address is no longer embarrassing

(Newser) - Hotmail was revolutionary when it debuted in 1996—but now it’s “old. Really old,” writes Farhad Manjoo. With this summer’s “fantastic new upgrade,” however, Hotmail is once again a player—even up to par with Manjoo’s beloved Gmail. His favorite feature: “Quick...

Palin Hacker Found Guilty on 2 Counts

David Kernell convicted of obstruction of justice, unlawful email access

(Newser) - A federal jury has convicted a 22-year-old former University of Tennessee student of hacking Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account during the 2008 campaign. David Kernell was acquitted of wire fraud but convicted of a felony, obstruction of justice, and a misdemeanor, unlawful computer access. The jury failed to reach a...

Harvard Law Student: Blacks Might Be 'Less Intelligent'

Email on genes sets off firestorm

(Newser) - A racially controversial email by a Harvard Law student is causing a flap after being forwarded to black student law groups around nation. The damning line from the unidentified third-year student: "I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be...

Goldman Boasted of 'Serious Money' Amid Crash
Goldman Boasted of 'Serious Money' Amid Crash
internal emails
Apr 24, 2010 1:18 PM CDT

Goldman Boasted of 'Serious Money' Amid Crash

Senate panel releases company correspondence

(Newser) - E-mails released today by a Senate panel show top executives at Goldman Sachs boasting about the money the firm was making as the national housing market collapsed in 2007. The e-mails suggest Goldman benefited from its bets that securities backed by subprime mortgages would lose value, and they seem to...

Palin Says Email Hacker Should Face 'Consequences'

Ex-governor says breach caused a 'disruption'

(Newser) - Sarah Palin took the stand today to testify about the hacking of her Yahoo email account, allegedly by a former Tennessee college student, and described the breach to a packed courthouse as a "disruption" both of her family life and the 2008 presidential campaign. Palin said she found out...

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