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This screen shot provided by Yahoo Inc., shows its upgraded e-mail with slide-show feature. Yahoo Inc. is sprucing up its free e-mail service in the latest attempt to persuade people to spend more time on its website. (AP Photo/Yahoo Inc.) NO SALES (AP) — Yahoo Inc. is sprucing up its free e-mail service in the [...]

(AP) — Google Inc. is addressing one of the biggest complaints about its free e-mail service by giving people more control over how their inboxes are organized. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

(AP) — Yahoo’s coming attractions include facelifts for its e-mail service and Internet search results. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Yahoo has rejiggered its Web e-mail service to better fit within the confines of the iPad’s plus-size Web browser. Users who visit Yahoo’s Web mail service from their iPad will now get a version of the site that’s been designed to fit in with the iPad’s user interface aesthetic. This includes portrait and landscape support [...]

The number of Android apps has surpassed the 50,000 mark, and is increasing daily. With so many options, it’s difficult to know which ones are applicable to your organization and its employees. These five business programs for Android phones tout unique and useful features. Although no one plans to give up their laptop and start [...]

(AP) — Yahoo Inc. is hoping to turn on a new sharing option in its popular e-mail service without shocking users who prize their privacy. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

“If you build it, they will come” isn’t always enough. Sometime you have to let somebody else build on your foundation. That’s what Google is now doing with Gmail, letting Google Apps customers add various third-party applications that integrate with the e-mail service. “Starting today, third-party developers can build Gmail contextual gadgets and distribute them [...]

A Florida woman yesterday filed a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc., charging that the new Buzz social networking tool set violates the privacy rights of users. Eva Hibnick, a resident of Sarasota County, Fla., filed the suit in a San Jose, Calif., federal court on behalf of herself and the approximately 31 million U.S. users [...]

When Google unveiled Buzz earlier this week, one of the first things that jumped into many people’s minds (including ours) was “haven’t we seen this before?” The answer is yes. Buzz is, in many ways, highly derivative of existing, and quite popular services. The three biggest ones that come to mind are Twitter, Facebook, and [...]

(AP) — In response to privacy concerns, Google says it has tweaked Buzz, the social hub it added to its e-mail service this week. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.