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Have you received any "traceable" PattyMail recently?

If youve been following the HP privacy debacle at all, then youd know that one of the techniques that investigators tried on CNET News.coms Dawn Kawamoto in order to figure out who her source inside HP was was to send her a traceable e-mail. In commemoration of the former HP...

Tags: e-mail, Hewlett-Packard Co., HTML

Blog posts 2006-09-26

Watch out for that email

Isn't it amazing what people will send through their work email accounts? We recently reported on a small town mayor who emailed at work with her in-office lover. She lost her job. And there are many more stories. The Washington Post's Stephen Barr relates a few in Thursday's Federal Diary....

Tags: Scott Bloch, E-MAILS, e-mail

Blog posts 2006-08-18

Personal email, public computers: Who owns it?

Government executives and courts across the country are coming up with different answers to the question of who owns personal emails sent by government employees using government computers. In Massachusetts, the Supervisor of Public Records recently ruled that state law makes all documents produced by government employees public property -...

Tags: E-MAILS

Blog posts 2006-08-08

66% of teenagers send more IMs than e-mail

66% of online users between the ages of 13 and 21 reported sending more instant messages than e-mails, AOL says. That figure represents a substantial increase from 2004, when 49% of survey respondents said they sent more IMs than e-mails.

Tags: E-MAILS, IM

Blog posts 2006-02-22

100 mln of e-mails to President Bush to go into national archives

Clinton's 8-year presidency resulted in 32 mln e-mails transferred to the National Archives, Wall Street Journal reported. Meanwhile, Bush administration estimates the number will reach 100 mln after current President of the United States, George W. Bush, leaves office.

Tags: e-mail

Blog posts 2005-12-31

Spam volume down by 75% in 2005

More than 500 bln spam e-mails were blocked by AOL filters in 2005. The number of junk e-mails reported by AOL's 26 mln members worldwide has declined about 75% since 2003. In 2005, AOL blocked an average of 1.5 bln spams per day. Approximately 80% e-mails received at its gateway...

Tags: E-MAILS, blockeD, America Online Inc.

Blog posts 2005-12-28

25% of companies offering e-mail newsletters fail to offer any incentive

SilverPop surveyed companies, who communicate with their customers via e-mail. 75% of companies studied don't use customers' names in e-mails responding to requests. 25% failed to offer any reason to sign up to receive e-mails from the company; of those that did, 45% offered notices of sales and promotions, 14%...

Tags: E-MAILS, e-mail

Blog posts 2005-10-27

27% of e-mails sent to customer support are ignored

27% of e-mails sent to 38 of the largest high-tech companies were ignored, and only 50% were responded to within a day, according to The Customer Respect Group. 40% of the responses were considered "less than very helpful." As far as customer respect, HP scored the highest, followed in order...

Tags: E-MAILS

Blog posts 2005-06-06

The "Top Ten" most inexcusable failures of technology?

Just about everywhere you look on the Internet, in newspapers and magazines, and even on TV, you'll see new and innovative products being showered with accolades and awards. As a former lab director at Ziff Davis, I was a part of the testing and reviews engine that hoisted great products...

Tags: telephone, E-MAILS

Blog posts 2005-04-08

3.8% click on retailers' promotional e-mails

Back-to-school sales and fall promotions drove the volume of retail marketing e-mails up by 81% from the Q2 to Q3 2004, according to Bigfoot Interactive. The report showed a QTQ growth in click-through rate to 3.8% from 3.7% for promotional retail messages. Bigfoot also reported that deliverability for retail clients...

Tags: E-MAILS

Blog posts 2004-12-12

Only 6.9% of e-mails were infected by virus in August 2004

For every 4,756 business e-mails sent in Q2 2004, just one contained an offending or nonwork-related attachment, such as pornography, cartoons, jokes and greeting cards. That's compared with a 1,357 to 1 ratio in Q2 2003r, according to MessageLabs. Of all messages scanned by the company, 84.2% were spam, compared...

Tags: Q2 2004, E-MAILS

Blog posts 2004-09-09

38% of all North American e-mails are spam

IDC estimates that spam comprises about 38% of all e-mails sent in 2004 in North America, up 2% YTY. In 2002 spam comprised 24% of North American traffic. 31 billion e-mails are sent daily, according to IDC. The number of spam sent on an average day is 11 bln, compared...

Tags: E-MAILS, spam

Blog posts 2004-09-02

Kids get spam and porn spam

A study conducted by KidsGuard.com among a sample of over 66,000 children in the UK determined that kids receive an average of 1.46 pornographic e-mails each day and 10 per week. KidsGuard bases its findings on a survey of over 692,000 spam e-mail messages received by 66,063 children between October...

Tags: spam, E-MAILS

Blog posts 2004-04-26

E-mail click rates

Since the first quarter of this year open rates have declined from 39.2% in Q1 and click-through rates have fallen to 8.3% this past quarter from 8.9% in Q1. Nonetheless, it is important to note that legitimate e-mail marketers can carve a space for themselves over time.DoubleClick's report is...

Tags: E-MAILS, DoubleClick Inc.

Blog posts 2003-09-01

Additional Resources

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...

Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Selkie Email Rescue (exe)

Selkie Email Rescue is a do-it-yourself, fast and easy recovery system for PC or laptop. Simple, secure, recovery software for e-mail files. Selkie Email Rescue will save you from the stresses of losing important information in your e-mails. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Tugboat, Selkie Email Rescue, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-10-05

E-vid Video E-mail (exe)

Send and receive video messages to anyone with an e-mail address. Quicker and easier than text e-mails. If a picture is worth 1000 words then a video is worth a million. Say it yourself with e-vid. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Video, CamGrams, Corporate Communications, E-mail, Marketing, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-10-02

Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- again

Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- againI'm all for shutting down...mail servers that are spamming. No matter how big they are. If my server started spamming, my ISP would give me one shot to clean it up. If I didn't or couldn't it would be blocked. Just because it's Microsoft doesn't...

Tags: Spam, spammer, CAPTCHA, Microsoft CAPTCHA, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Palin had '10 to 15' secret email accounts

Somehow I'm not surprised to read that Gov. Sarah Palin has more email accounts. It's now very well known, of course, that her office operated Yahoo accounts. Someone breached one of the Yahoo accounts, prompting an Internet manhunt. Now the Washington Post reports (yeah, I...

Tags: e-Mail Account, Yahoo! Inc., Governor, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-01

2CUROK Screensaver (scr)

2CUROK is a screensaver that monitors your mobility by tracking when you last used the computer. It sends automated e-mails requesting help from those close to you. If you were to fall or were otherwise immobilised you would be unable to reset the 2CUROK Screensaver countdown and automated e-mail alarms...

Tags: Screensaver, 2CUROK, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-10-01