Earlier this month, Google launched its Gmail app for iOS devices. It wasn’t exactly met with a round of applause. There were few of the powerful features users get with regular Gmail, notifications weren’t working correctly, and the app crashed so often that Google finally pulled it from the Apple Store. READ MORE
E-mail is often called the “killer app” and many of us (especially me) seem to spend our entire waking lives reading, sorting, and sending e-mail messages. But, precisely because it is so ubiquitous and our use of it so second-nature, it can become the career-killer app as well. READ MORE
Rumors that Yahoo might be planning to reject bids on the company sent shares into a tailspin, leading to the company’s worst day of trading in two months. The market was responding to speculation that the company may sell the portion of its business in Asia and pass the proceeds on to stockholders. READ MORE
Much to the delight of IT administrators, Dropbox just launched a new version of its cloud storage and file sharing service, Dropbox for Teams. While more than 45 million people already use Dropbox individually, now businesses can take advantage of new administrative controls, centralized billing, phone support and a whopping 1,000 GB of storage. READ MORE
Google will be making changes to both Gmail and its Reader news and Web aggregation tool. A leaked YouTube video shows off the new Gmail interface, which is designed to be cleaner, simpler, and more intuitive. One of the biggest changes is that the Gmail window will automatically adapt to whatever size the user chooses. READ MORE
Zendio is one of those things you want for yourself but hope no one else has. For $9.95 a month, this Outlook add-on will tell you whether and when someone has opened your email message. It will also tell you whether he or she has clicked on any of the links included in your message, and where the recipient is located geographically. All without alerting the recipient that this info is being collected. READ MORE
A security hole affecting some of HTC’s most popular Android phones, including the Thunderbolt and EVO 4G, could give apps with Internet permissions access to key user data such as email address, location and even text messages. READ MORE
From Monday to Wednesday in San Francisco, TechCrunch’s latest Disrupt Start-up Battlefield competition is showcasing entrepreneurs from 30 start-ups, all vying for a $50,000 prize by making six-minute-long pitches to a rotating panel of venture capitalists, tech influencers, angel investors and Silicon Valley players. Tuesday featured three more sessions of Start-up Battlefield, titled Customer-Friendly Enterprise, Local Networks and Increasing Understanding; here are the start-ups presented in session six: Increasing Understanding. READ MORE
A New York company called Movable Ink is determined to keep email marketing alive and relevant. The company offers mass e-mailers a program that pulls information from a company’s web site and embeds it in an email. That way, the information contained in the email is up to date no matter when the recipient opens it. READ MORE
If your business needs to use encrypted e-mail or provide legal proof of delivery or electronic signatures, you may already be familiar with RPost, the company that invented registered e-mail. Not only has RPost recently upgraded its electronic signature service with court-admissible document, contract, and multi-party signoff tools that plug into Salesforce.com, Outlook, Lotus, web-mail and other applications, it also just launched a cloud service. READ MORE
