Posts Tagged ‘e mail address’
Review: Facebook fans will ‘like’ RockMelt browser
Thursday, December 9, 2010 17:05 No CommentsIn this screen shot released by RockMelt, Inc., the RockMelt browser is displayed. (AP Photo/RockMelt, Inc.) (AP) — There’s a lot to keep track of online. You probably have a Facebook account and an e-mail address or two. You might use Twitter or another service to share where you are or what you’re reading, thinking [...]
OtherInBox handles e-mail overload; knows too much
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:49 No CommentsIt used to be, come mid-November, the catalogs would start to pour into our homes at a distressing rate. One would think of the poor mail carriers schlepping pounds of recycling from trucks to houses. Now the flood is also electronic. The commercial e-mail offers start to pour in even more than at other times [...]
Amazon lets you give the gift of MP3
Monday, November 22, 2010 17:49 No CommentsWith the startling variety of products offered by online retail giant Amazon.com, it’s no wonder the site is the go-to Web depot for all manner of holiday shopper. Interestingly, though, digital media gifting was notably absent from the store’s repertoire–until last week. The company first announced a new feature allowing Kindle book gifting; unsurprisingly, MP3 [...]
Mozilla develops social skills with F1
Monday, November 15, 2010 23:48 No CommentsAs Flock and RockMelt duked it out for social-networking addicts’ attention, browser kingpin Mozilla quietly introduced last week a new add-on for Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail users. Called F1 (download) and created by Mozilla Messaging, the division of Mozilla that manages the e-mail client Thunderbird, the secure and unobtrusive add-on provides fast sharing of URLs [...]
Live blog Wednesday: Facebook mobile event
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 18:48 No CommentsJoin us tomorrow morning for live coverage of Facebook’s mobile event, taking place at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., at 10:30 a.m. PT. I’ll be there, along with CNET’s mobile phone and software expert Jessica Dolcourt to bring you news updates and photos, as well as a hands-on if possible of whatever might [...]
Hotmail now works with other e-mail accounts, even Gmail
Monday, November 1, 2010 18:48 No CommentsWindows Live Hotmail has a new trick up its sleeve–one that’s aimed directly at getting users with e-mail accounts on other services to use it exclusively, even if they keep that address. That trick, which begins rolling out to Hotmail users today, lets them add accounts from other Web mail services that can be read [...]
Join us Wednesday for Facebook’s event (live blog)
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 17:50 No CommentsCNET will be on the scene at Facebook’s Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters tomorrow to bring you all the news from the company’s invite-only media event. The event starts at 10 a.m. Pacific, and as usual, we’ll be using Cover It Live to deliver text and photo updates from the briefing as it’s going on. Facebook [...]
RIM posts revenue gains on BlackBerry sales
Thursday, September 16, 2010 20:20 No CommentsResearch In Motion reported revenue gains of 9 percent in its latest financial quarter, driven by Blackberry subscriber gains and record device sales, the company said Thursday. RIM’s revenue was $4.62 billion for its second quarter of 2011, which ended Aug. 28, compared to revenue of $4.24 million for the second quarter of 2010. The [...]
Report: HP to buy ArcSight for $1.5 billion
Monday, September 13, 2010 8:20 No CommentsHewlett-Packard will soon purchase security vendor ArcSight for $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Citing unnamed sources, the Journal said that the deal could be announced as soon as Monday. ArcSight sells a well-regarded product that gives system administrators a way to monitor their networks and activity logs for signs of hacking or [...]
Nokia names Microsoft’s Elop as new CEO
Friday, September 10, 2010 5:20 No CommentsNokia has named Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft’s business software group, to become its new CEO effective from later this month. Elop will replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo in the top job on Sept. 21. Kallasvuo loses his board seat with immediate effect and will step down from the CEO position on Sept. 20, the company said. [...]