We've been covering the new web email project MySpace has been working on in stealth mode for the past several month. Now it's ready to begin a quiet rollout today, in beta, for users around the globe.

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Microsoft shuts down Hotmail accounts that haven't been logged into after nine months. So if you registered for your Gmail account two years ago and used your Hotmail address as your secondary email address and never logged back in, you've put your Gmail account at risk.

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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.

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Since launching back in 2004, Gmail has set the gold standard for webmail clients, offering a large amount of storage and a highly usable interface, free of charge.

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SAN FRANCISCO--What Google did with Gmail in conventional browsers five years ago it is expecting to do again with a new mobile version of its Web-based e-mail service.

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Windows Live Hotmail (former Hotmail) is one of - if not the most - popular free webmail applications on the planet, so naturally there's a bit of an uproar (warning: highly emotional teenager grunts here) since apparently users have been unable to access their mail account for …

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Google is pretty fast-moving, as company cultures go, rolling out new products on a regular basis. And yet its popular Gmail service is only just now getting around to providing offline e-mail access, a feature that open-source Zimbra has had for nearly two years.

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Encryption scares a lot of people - me included - because it's based on really complicated mathematics.

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Where's your email going?

Let me preface this by stating that as a simple and effective search engine I really do like Google.

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The computer attackers who took down Comcast's homepage and webmail service for more than five hours Thursday say they didn't know what they were getting themselves into.

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The computer attackers who took down Comcast's homepage and webmail service for more than five hours Thursday say they didn't know what they were getting themselves into.

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Making Apple's (surprisingly very insecure) Squirrelmail go secure, right out of the box.

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My Gmail wants a new set of clothes

Google recently upgraded their browser email client, Gmail, making it faster and easier to use. There are shouts of joy heard round the world, and everybody is happy.

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Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying that "not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer."

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Exclusive Yahoo! and Microsoft have removed Iran from the country lists of their webmail services as stronger US sanctions against the Islamic republic begin to bite. Google has kept Iran as an option on the Gmail registration page, however.

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Our country cousins at Download Squad have picked up the scent of a major change over Gmail way: support for IMAP access to Google's multigigabyte free email service appears to be up and running as of tonight (possibly not yet turned on for all accounts; check your settings to be …

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Cya, Thunderbird

After a few months of toying with Thunderbird (in conjunction with Gmail, which I've had since July 2004), I've decided to remove it. Reason 1: Speed

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Using public wi-fi hotspots has got much riskier as security experts unveil tools that nab login data over the air. Demonstrated at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, the tools make it far easier to steal account details, said Robert Graham of Errata Security.

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Court Extends Expectation of Privacy to e-mail

Do you think of your e-mail like a letter ... or a postcard? Thanks to an appeals court ruling Monday, we are one step closer to requiring that the government treat our e-mail with the same reasonable expectation of privacy that it treats our postal mail.

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In a tremendous victory for privacy rights, the US 6th district court has restored the power of 4th amendment protection to emails stored on a remote host like an ISP or Webmail, striking down sections of the Stored Communications Act which have been routinely used to grab emails …

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AOL has a new version of their Web Mail application in beta testing.

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Jubii - Webmail, filesharing, and more from YAWC (Yet Another Web Company)

Jubii is a new web service. It includes email (the core component), file sharing, IM, and VoIP. Sounds a little like Gmail, huh? I tried it, and got mixed feelings about it. First, if you are one of the first 1,000,000 people to sign up, you get 10 GB. Yeah, 10 GB.

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One of the first reviews of the .mac Apple webmail released today. Includes a coupon for a free 60 day trial. Top 10 list breaks down the release into the key bullet points you need to evaluate.

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Apple Computer has launched its new .Mac webmail interface and also issued an update to its DVD authoring application. Meanwhile, the NASDAQ has agreed to continue listing the company on its index based on certain conditions.

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Introducing the next generation of webmail. With its smart use of the latest web technology, the new .Mac webmail will remind you of the Mail application on your desktop.

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