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Google Wave: What is it? Why should you care?

Unless you've been under a rock, one with particularly poor Wi-Fi, you've probably heard at least something about Google's newest newfangled thingamabob, Wave.

Yale apologizes for 'Killer Cover Letters' e-mail

Yale University officials are apologizing for an e-mail notifying students about a job-search workshop named "Killer Cover Letters" that was sent out as police investigate the killing of a graduate student.

Christian couples staying faithful online

Lance Maggiacomo was out of work, bored and lonely when he started hiding his online relationships from his wife.

Change-up: White House sent unsolicited e-mails

The White House is blaming unnamed political groups for the unsolicited e-mails it had wrongly insisted no one was receiving from its online operation.

ConsumerMan: Guard your e-mail

William Smith, a marketing specialist in Seattle, recently received what appeared to be an e-mail from his old friend Peter. The message said Peter had posted new pictures online and wanted Smith to see them.

Obama says he gets daily prayers on his BlackBerry

President Barack Obama says he gets a prayer every morning on his BlackBerry.

Michael Jackson memorial shared online

Two out of three Americans are so totally over Michael Jackson news coverage. Well, that’s according to a Pew Research Center survey.

Calif. professor's Gaza e-mail cleared by panel

A committee at a California university has cleared a professor who sent an e-mail comparing Israel's policies in Gaza to the Holocaust.

White House wins court fight on e-mail disclosure

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the office that has records about millions of possibly missing e-mails from the Bush White House does not have to make them public.

Professor's Holocaust-Gaza comparison stirs debate

A Jewish university professor accused of anti-Semitism for comparing Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to the Holocaust says he's received hundreds of messages of support and a bombardment of hate mail.

UC San Diego sends invite to rejected students

The University of California, San Diego says it accidentally sent an e-mail invitation to every student who applied for the school's incoming freshman class — including the 29,000 who had been rejected.

ConsumerMan: Avoid playing the fool

Let’s play a game of “what if.” What if you got an e-mail or text message warning that a gang initiation would happen at a local Wal-Mart this week and it involved killing people?

Your Career: Why wasn't I hired?

Mary Ortega of Wilmington, Del., has been on 40 interviews for marketing and public relations jobs in the last 10 months.

NJ governor's e-mails with ex will remain private

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to force Gov. Jon S. Corzine to release e-mail exchanges with his ex-girlfriend, who leads a public employee union, ending a potential distraction to his fall re-election bid.

E-mail cited in case against former Senate aide

Documents in the case against former Senate aide Ann Copland include a series of e-mail messages from lobbyists who provided her with gifts and e-mails she sent complaining about some of the perks:

Dartmouth students apologize for racist e-mail

Dartmouth students have apologized for writing a tongue-in-cheek news report full of racial slurs directed at the school's next president, who will be the first Asian-American to lead an Ivy League school.

Calif. mayor resigns over watermelon e-mail

The mayor of a small Southern California city has resigned after being criticized for sending an e-mail showing watermelons in front of the White House.

Obama administration tries to kill e-mail case

The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails.

ConsumerMan: Beware of IRS 'phishing' scam

Cyber-thieves are clever crooks. They know an e-mail that looks like it’s from the IRS will get your attention. So they send out fake e-mail that says you are about to be audited or are due a big refund. Who could ignore a message like that?

Sleeping Lenovo laptops to get BlackBerry e-mail

Even with it is turned off, a new ThinkPad laptop will be able to talk to a BlackBerry phone so their owner will be able to read and send e-mail faster, the companies behind the devices planned to announce Monday.

AP: GOP takes e-mail case to NJ court

Republican Party officials in New Jersey have asked the state's highest court to consider whether Gov. Jon Corzine should be forced to release e-mails he exchanged with the union leader he once dated.

ConsumerMan: Beware of cute e-cards

Your “secret admirer” just sent you an electronic Valentine’s Day card and you can’t wait to find out who it’s from. Think twice before you do that. Your computer could wind up with a digitally transmitted disease.

FairPoint warns customers of possible e-mail scam

FairPoint Communications Inc. is warning customers of a possible scam connected to its takeover of Verizon Communications Inc. e-mail accounts in northern New England.

E-Mail system restored at the White House

Crisis averted at the White House. The e-mail system is back up and running.

White House e-mail system crashes

So the new White House finally gets its e-mail up and running smoothly, and then what happens?

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Freedomworks' Little Frankenstein Lab: Oregon
Source:

A scary, spooky Halloween story… The "initiative" process, pioneered by Oregon in 1904, as a means of stopping corrupt and bribed legislators stalling needed reforms has been co-opted by the corrupters and bribers to STOP the Oregon legislature from making needed reforms

Change passwords: Crooks want keys to your e-mail
Source: USA Today

Phishers are back with a vengeance, armed with some alarming new trickery.

Mozilla's Raindrop Looks To Make Your Inbox Personal Again
Source: TechCrunch

Mozilla Labs, Mozilla's innovation group, has developed a new open-source, experimental email and communication platform called Raindrop.

New trick by spammers: E-mails that overwhelm filters
Source: USA Today

Short-lived blasts of viral e-mail are sweeping across the Internet, posing an intensified risk to e-mail users. Last week, an e-mail message purporting to come from the IRS began swamping e-mail systems across America.

Teacher Charged With Sending Harassing E-Mails To Parent
Source: WMUR-TV

HOLLIS, N.H. -- A former teacher at a local high school is facing charges of sending harassing e-mail messages to the mother of a student.

E-Mail Controversy Has Boston Mayor On Defense
Source: WCVB-TV

BOSTON -- A controversy in Boston's Mayoral race has Mayor Thomas Menino on the defensive. NewsCenter 5's Todd Kazakiewich reported Monday that opponents are calling for a criminal investigation into some deleted e-mails at City Hall.

Gmail Tasks Become Shareable
Source: TechCrunch

The folks at Gmail always seem to be adding new features that help you organize your life. And the innovation seems to be paying off.

Skanks for Nothing: Google Must ID 'Anonymous' Blogger
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

Yesterday a U.S. Federal judge ruled that Google must turn over the name of an anonymous blogger who took a severe disliking to aging supermodel Liskula Cohen.

How to Manage Your Online Life When You're Dead
Source: TIME

Interesting point to ponder. What happens with your e-mails, facebook walll, etc. after your death?

Yahoo Mail still king as Gmail lurks
Source: CNET.com

Google's Gmail is the fastest-growing e-mail service on the planet, but it has a way to go to catch Yahoo's still-growing market share.

White House Responds to Cookie Rumors
Source: Eweek

This is the response of the White-house to yet another scare tactic being perpetrated by some of the "losing America as we know it" crowd.

Google Wave: Why we'll soon be waving at each other
Source: Telegraph

Google hopes their latest web tool, Google Wave, will replace emails.

Friend: Detained hikers made mistake
Source: msnbc.com

Shon Meckfessel says three of his friends being detained in Iran made a simple, regrettable mistake by crossing into that country while hiking in Iraq.

Abusive email accidentally sent to client goes viral
Source: Telegraph

Abbey Sherwell, an account manager who accidentally sent an angry email about a client to the client has been fired from her job at Entertainment Books in Melbourne, Australia.

'Hi Liz': The Story of an E-Mail Disaster
Source: ABC News

For better or for worse, you have to feel for Elizabeth Becton, and for the assistant at a Washington lobbying group who made the mistake of calling her "Liz" in an e-mail.

E-mail 'analysis' of health bill needs a check-up
Source: politifact.com

It may be the longest chain e-mail we've ever received. A page-by-page analysis of the House health care bill argues that reform will end the health care system as we know it...Most of what the e-mail says is wrong.

So it Begins -- the August Attack on Health Care Reform
Source: The Huffington Post

This week I received a mass email that exhorted the recipients to pray for our country because of the disaster surely to befall on us if health care reform is passed.

Boston Police Officer Suspended For Sending E-mail Calling Professor Gates A "Jungle Monkey"
Source: Crooks and Liars

A Boston police officer allegedly sent a mass e-mail using a disgraceful racial slur in referring to Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., prompting the commissioner to move immediately to fire the cop, the Herald has learned.

Will 'MySpace Mail' be a tool for bands?
Source: CNET.com

So, according to PaidContent, MySpace is about to upgrade its messaging service to full-out Web mail: so that instead of only being able to communicate with other MySpace members, users will have an @myspace.com e-mail address.

Could you be hacked like Twitter?
Source: msnbc.com

The French hacker who broke into Twitter's Google Apps and stole more than 300 private company documents has revealed in detail how he did it. See if you might be vulnerable, too.

Are thank-you notes passe in the e-mail age?
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

Your mom told you to do it. "What Color Is Your Parachute?" told you to do it. Every etiquette columnist who ever cocked a pinkie on a teacup and every job-search expert worth her salt told you to do it.

Alleged spam scammer pleads guilty
Source: msnbc.com

A Michigan man described as one of the world's most prolific senders of spam e-mail has pleaded guilty to charges accusing him of defrauding people by manipulating Chinese stock prices.

At Meetings It's Mind Your BlackBerry or Mind Your Manners
Source: The New York Times

For the first half-hour of the meeting, it was hardly surprising to see a potential client fiddling with his iPhone, said Rowland Hobbs, the chief executive of a marketing firm in Manhattan.

Return of the Mars Hoax (or maybe the "Confusing-Email-About-Mars-You-Should-Delete-and-Not-Forward-to-Anyone-Except-Your-In-Laws.")
Source: NASA - Science@NASA

For the sixth year in a row, a message about the Red Planet is popping up in email boxes around the world. It instructs readers to go outside after dark on August 27th and behold the sky. "Mars will look as large as the full moon," it says.

The best e-mail lists in politics - Kenneth P. Vogel - POLITICO.com
Source: Politico

To them, Clinton's vaunted list—estimated to include as many as 2.5 million email addresses— is a virtual license to print money for Democratic pols and causes.

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