Kolkata: Ever since US programmer Ray Tomlinson sent the first email 40 years ago, the new communication tool has taken the world by storm, but it took another 20 years or so to reach the Indian shores, Indian scientists recall. "In October 1971, Tomlinson wrote a software and was able to transfer a message from one computer to another, making it the first networked email, much before the advent of...
12:33 PM, Oct 09, 2012
New York: Mobile phones and emails may have become common tools for contact among people but majority of employees, including those of younger generation, still prefer face-to-face communication at work. As per a survey of employees and managers in the US, 60 per cent of those aged over 55 years preferred face-to-face communications at work. About 55 per cent of those aged 25-34 also liked to follow this route. Face-to-face...
01:13 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Islamabad: Officials in the Pakistani Prime Minister's office went into a tizzy after unidentified persons attempted to circulate an email purportedly containing the premier's message for Defence Day, exposing the lack of cyber security in the office's media arm. An email titled "Prime Minister's Message on Defence Day" was sent to scribes from the ID "pmmediaofficer@gmail.com", which is very similar to one of the IDs used by the premier's media...
03:38 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Mumbai: A 43-year-old woman professor at a city college has become the latest victim of the Nigerian fraud, losing around Rs 11.50 lakh to cheats who sent her an email stating she had won $8,50,000 under an ICC World Cup Mobile Lucky Draw. The city cyber cell said that they had been sensitising people about the email trick popularly called Nigerian fraud, but the greed was making people fall prey...
05:12 PM, Aug 28, 2012
London: Are you sending 'too-friendly' emails with kisses and smileys to your clients and colleagues? You better stop! A survey by a office products company in UK found that kisses on emails to clients are disliked by 66 per cent people while 44 per cent said they didn't approve of smiley faces in mails. Two-thirds of people said that they regard simple mistakes in an email as 'shoddy' and would...
01:48 PM, Aug 11, 2012
San Francisco: Google is creating an information bridge between its influential Internet search engine and its widely used Gmail service in its latest attempt to deliver more personal responses more quickly. The experimental feature unveiled Wednesday will enable Google's search engine to mine the correspondence stored within a user's Gmail account for any data tied to a search request. For example, a query containing the word "Amazon" would pull emails...
06:58 AM, Aug 09, 2012
Jaipur: State and Central intelligence agencies have been put on alert after an email threatening blast in Delhi on Independence Day was sent to various state chief secretaries, including Rajasthan Chief Secretary CK Mathew. The email, forwarded on Friday by one Ajay Kashyap to the chief secretaries of Rajasthan, Delhi and few other states, claimed that a man from Bihar was planning to trigger blasts in Delhi on August 15,...
02:54 PM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: Microsoft is renaming its vintage Hotmail email service as Outlook.com. Hotmail was still the world's largest email service with 324 million users (about 36 per cent of the market) but had been losing its market to Google's fast-growing Gmail. The name Outlook is familiar to most corporate workers who use the popular Microsoft Office email application. Hotmail was launched in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and...
07:07 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Seattle: Microsoft unveiled a revamped, Facebook-friendly version of its free, online email service on Tuesday in an attempt to reverse market share losses to Google's fast-growing Gmail. The world's largest software company is renaming its Hotmail service Outlook, giving it a sharp new look, social network links, and new features for handling the tide of junk and mass mail that swamps many users. Hotmail was still the world's largest online...
12:03 AM, Aug 01, 2012
London: The secret-spilling group WikiLeaks said it was in the process of publishing material from 2.4 million Syrian emails - many of which it said came from official government accounts. WikiLeaks' Sarah Harrison told journalists at London's Frontline Club that the emails reveal interactions between the Syrian government and Western companies, although she declined to go into much further detail. Harrison quoted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as saying that "the...
11:48 AM, Jul 08, 2012
London: The WikiLeaks website said on Thursday it had begun publishing more than 2 million emails from Syrian government officials that would embarrass not only Damascus, which is trying to crush a 16-month rebellion, but also its opponents. WikiLeaks spokeswoman Sarah Harrison told a news conference the emails were from Syrian political figures, government ministries and companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. She read out a statement quoting...
12:50 AM, Jul 06, 2012
California: Facebook has changed your email address. At least that's how many felt after a quiet but vast change in the way the company displays users' contact information. Facebook replaced the email address users chose when they signed up and changed it to a facebook.com address. The Facebook email accounts allow users to communicate with outside email addresses via Facebook. The changes were first pointed out by bloggers over the...
11:21 AM, Jun 26, 2012
Kolkata: Jealous of his friend's performance, an MSc. (economics) passout from the Calcutta University allegedly hacked his email account and sent mails with a view to deny him an opportunity to study abroad, but landed in police net. Soumyatanu Mukherjee, 25, was arrested for hacking the email account of his friend Agnirup Sarkar, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Pallab Kanti Ghosh said here Tuesday. "Mukherjee hacked the account and sent...
04:12 PM, Jun 13, 2012
New York: An Indian diplomat's daughter, who was jailed for a day on suspicion of sending obscene emails to her teacher, has filed a lawsuit against the city of New York and her school authorities seeking USD 1.5 million in damages for her wrongful imprisonment and suspension from school. 18-year-old Krittika Biswas, the daughter of Vice-Consul in the Consulate General of India in New York Debashish Biswas, was detained and...
12:19 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Google launched Gmail as an invitation-only beta on April 1, 2004 and it has gradually over a span of eight years increased the storage from 1 GB to 7.5 GB. Now to celebrate the launch of its much anticipated Google Drive cloud storage and sync product Google has announced that it is giving Gmail users 2.5 GB of additional storage. In a post on the official Gmail blog,...
01:38 PM, Apr 25, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The polygraph test on Biju Salim, the chief accused in the e-mail snooping case, which was scheduled to be performed on Friday has been postponed. Officials sources cited technical reasons for the postponement.The Crime Branch had taken Biju to the Forensics Science Lab here, but returned. The new date has not been decided.The Chief Judicial Magistrate court had on Thursday permitted the Crime Branch to conduct the polygraph test.Biju...
11:11 AM, Apr 14, 2012
London: David Cameron government's plans to enact legislation to allow officials to monitor phone calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK have provoked a welter of protest amidst accusations of bringing in 'Big Brother'-style governance. The Home Office believes that such powers are necessary to deal with crime and terrorism. Opposition to the plans likely to be outlined in the Queen's Speech in May has come...
06:39 PM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook, Twitter might be flavour of the season, but email remains more popular than social media as a method of Internet communication for Indians, says a survey. According to global research firm Ipsos, 68 per cent of people across India, who are connected online, send and receive emails while about 60 per cent communicate via social networking sites. "Internet penetration in India has been very good in recent...
11:15 AM, Mar 30, 2012
pLos Angeles: A man pleaded guilty to hacking into the email accounts of such celebrities as Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson, whose nude photos eventually landed on the Internet. Christopher Chaney, 35, entered his plea in federal court to nine counts, including unauthorised access to a computer and wiretapping. He was immediately taken into custody. Sentencing was scheduled for July 23. Chaney was arrested in October as part...
05:20 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New York: Emails from Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard days show the dropout-turned-Facebook CEO as a young entrepreneur losing patience with a client's delayed payments. "I contracted out my services for money, and even though I seem to continually be providing services, I don't seem to be receiving money from you guys," he wrote on Sunday, January 25, 2004, according to court documents filed on Monday by Facebook's lawyers. The deal, writes...
10:56 AM, Mar 27, 2012
