Neowin News Feed for: Webmail

Millions of accounts for webmail providers leaked: Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and more

Jack Wilkinson — Wed, 04 May 2016 19:38:01 +0000

User account details for millions of email accounts from popular services have been leaked. High-profile services such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Mail.ru are affected. Read more...

Tweak your Gmail notifications center and experience

Steven Parker — Sun, 26 May 2013 08:53:43 +0000

This week Google updated the notifications center and alerts to a richer, more modern experience. Although this feature is enabled by default in Chrome 28 Beta, you can also enable it in Chrome 27. Read more...

South Carolina decides that webmail isn't protected by privacy laws

Tyler Holman — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:55:59 +0000

The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that webmail services like Outlook and Gmail aren't protected by existing digital privacy laws because they don't conform to laws written in the 1980s. Read more...

Webmail shows massive declines

Tyler Holman — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:46:51 +0000

A recent study shows that webmail services like Hotmail experienced a sharp decline in traffic last year, mostly thanks to the increasing use of email clients on mobile devices. Read more...

Google introduces Gmail Priority Inbox feature

Tom Warren — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:23:52 +0000

Google has introduced a new feature today, to combat email overload. Priority inbox is a beta feature that splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”. The system enables Gmail to... Read more...

Hotmail is gradually switching on Exchange ActiveSync for push mail

Tom Warren — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:54:07 +0000

Microsoft is gradually enabling Hotmail push email support for a wide range of phones including the iPhone, Windows Phone devices and Android. Microsoft is introducing the support using Exchange ActiveSync, available on nearly 300 million phones.... Read more...

Microsoft aiming for Gmail with safer and more functional Hotmail

Tom Warren — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:32:31 +0000

Microsoft has Google in its sights with an upcoming Hotmail refresh due this Summer. Hotmail "Wave 4", as it is currently dubbed internally, will introduce a new set of features with security at the heart of... Read more...

Even more screenshots of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 leak

Benjamin Rubenstein — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:12:02 +0000

In continuing with our previous coverage of new Wave 4 Hotmail features and screenshots, LiveSide has, once again, posted screenshots from the the M3 build. Taken from Pinnula.fr, these pictures, which are in French, show... Read more...

New screenshots and features of Wave 4 Hotmail

Benjamin Rubenstein — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:45:55 +0000

LiveSide.net (via LiveSino.net) has gotten their hands on some screenshots of the upcoming Wave 4 update of Microsoft's Hotmail webmail service. Not only did the screenshots sport the new logo that Neowin reported last week,... Read more...

Gmail gets two new features

Benjamin Rubenstein — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:02:02 +0000

On The Official Gmail Blog, Google has posted two new features that have been added to their popular Gmail webmail service. Unlike many recently rolled out features, these particular ones aren't categorized as Labs. These... Read more...

New Windows Live Hotmail logo surfaces

Benjamin Rubenstein — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:17:27 +0000

In a video posted yesterday on The Window Blog, an unexpected refresh of the Microsoft's Hotmail logo has been outed. The new logo will sport a very Outlook-esque golden envelope and a full "Windows Live... Read more...

Facebook's "Gmail Killer" Project Titan unofficially unveiled

Sam Symons — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:46:23 +0000

Hours ago, Facebook flicked the switch on another redesign of its home page. It was a pretty significant change when compared to their previous redesigns, though it seems that it was just the tip of... Read more...

IBM enters the business webmail market

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:12:53 +0000

For a long time now, Google seemed to be a leader in corporate webmail services. IBM is now aiming to cut their advantage short, by launching its own cloud-based platform, named LotusLive. It will be... Read more...

MySpace set to launch webmail service

Andrew Fairbairn — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:24:34 +0000

The social networking website MySpace is set to launch a new email service this week, offering users their own @myspace.com email address. Just what you always wanted, eh? According to paidContent, the launch will... Read more...