Lycos Mail is shutting down After several years of providing high quality email services to its users, Lycos is finally putting an end to its Lycos Mail operations. The Lycos Team forwarded the bad news to its loyal subscribers by sending copies of the company’s official statement to their individual email addresses. Not saving important [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
Xobni: Making Microsoft Outlook Look Cool
Microsoft Outlook is one of the oldest email applications around. In fact, Adam Smith was only 12 when Microsoft first introduced it. Now, at 23, Smith is introducing an email application that is set to revolutionize Microsoft’s personal information manager. Named Xobni (which is, obviously, “inbox” spelled backwards), the new email application that was developed [...]
Sending an Email Hoax to Skip School
Nobody wants to go to school on a snow day: the wind is freezing and the streets are slippery. Besides, who would want to spend long hours inside a classroom when there is a snowman waiting to be made outside? A student from Utica, New York surely did not want to go to school that [...]
Trojan from Fake Obama Speech Email
The anticipation for President-Elect Barack Obama’s inaugural speech increases as January 20 approaches. Unfortunately, a group of Internet delinquents are taking advantage of the Obama fever by sending out emails that supposedly contain a link to the president-elect’s famous acceptance speech. Obviously, the fake email doesn’t contain a link to the inspiring speech that the [...]
Protect Your Email Account with a Yahoo! Sign-in Seal
Phishing is one of the most common forms of email fraud today. Many email users have lost their passwords and their accounts to professional phishers because their email accounts are not as secured as they hoped. One way of protecting your Yahoo! Mail account from phishers is to create a sign-in seal, a secret message [...]