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Nokia acquires email and IM leader OZ Communications

March 17, 2023 By Dennis Bouchand 1 Comment

Nokia is acquiring OZ Communications, a privately held company with approximately 220 employees and headquartered in Montreal, Canada. OZ, a consumer mobile messaging solution provider, delivers access to popular instant messaging and email services on consumer mobile devices.

By acquiring OZ, Nokia will enable easy-to-use, fast access to leading instant messaging and email services, including AOL, Gmail, ICQ, Windows Live, Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! With more than 5.5 million monthly paid users, OZ’s solutions have been deployed by leading mobile operators on a wide array of mobile device platforms.

The expertise and technology Nokia acquires through OZ is complementary to Nokia’s existing portfolio of messaging solutions and will provide a complete portfolio of mobile messaging solutions for Series 40 and S60 devices. Nokia will continue to work closely with OZ’s existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and mobile operator customers.

Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Originally posted on September 30, 2008 @ 9:57 am

Filed Under: Email, Instant Messaging

Do you check your email at 3AM?

March 17, 2023 By Cristina Ledesma 4 Comments

If you check your email in the middle of the night or even while driving, you’re not alone. According to AOL Mail’s fourth annual Email Addiction Survey, nearly half (46%) of email users said they’re hooked on email (up from just 15% last year) and 51% check their email four or more times a day (up from 45% in 2007). One in five said they check their email more than 10 times a day.

More than one-quarter (27%) are so overwhelmed by their email that they’ve either declared “email bankruptcy,” deleting all their email messages to start anew, or they’re seriously thinking about doing so. Maybe it’s because 20% of users said they have over 300 emails in their inboxes.

To start fresh, 24% admit they’ve signed up for a new email address. It comes as no surprise then that 69% of email users said they have multiple email accounts, up from 52% in 2007.

When asked about email etiquette, nearly one quarter (24%) of email users said they don’t even use a salutation – they just dive right into their email messages! Meanwhile, 23% write “Hi Bob” and 20% say “Hello Bob” when they start an email to co-worker Bob.

As for email sign-offs, most people write “Thanks” (44%) or “Sincerely (12%). The most annoying sign-off among email users? It’s “xoxo” according to 25% of respondents. “Cheers” irritated 13% of users the most. Overall, 63% of email users were annoyed by some type of email sign-off.

Most respondents (88%) said that they pay attention to spelling and punctuation when writing emails, and 68% said emails with spelling and punctuation errors annoyed them. Interestingly, 74% said they excuse errors when emails are sent from a mobile device like a BlackBerry or iPhone.

People today check their email from the strangest of places. Where you ask?

– In bed in their pajamas: 67%
– From the bathroom: 59% (up from 53% last year)
– While driving: 50% (up from 37% last year)
– In a bar or club: 39%
– In a business meeting: 38%
– During happy hour: 34%
– While on a date: 25%
– From church: 15% (up from 12% last year)

Email users have also become too quick to hit the “Send” button. In fact, 32% have forwarded an email to the wrong person and 16% have relied on email as a way to share uncomfortable or bad news with someone. Meanwhile, 12% have used email to ask someone on a date and 7% have broken up with a boyfriend or girlfriend over email. A full 16% even said they still keep email notes from ex-boyfriends and girlfriends!

We also just can’t walk away from our inboxes. Of those surveyed, 60% said they’ve never gone more than 5 days without checking email and 17% can’t go more than one day without email. They’re so hooked that 11% have even hidden the fact that they’re checking email from a spouse or family member.

Some cities are more hooked on email than others. Here are the ten most email addicted cities in the country:

1. New York
2. Houston
3. Chicago
4. Detroit
5. San Francisco
6. Sacramento
7. Orlando
8. Minneapolis-St. Paul
9. Denver
10. Phoenix

[full survey]

Originally posted on July 30, 2008 @ 11:58 pm

Filed Under: Email

Zimbra makes Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and AOL Mail available offline

March 13, 2023 By Dennis Bouchand Leave a Comment

Messaging and collaboration software company Zimbra has released Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop Beta, giving everyone access to a simple, centralized place to manage work, school and personal e-mail even when they are not connected to the Internet. Through internet protocol support called Post Office Protocol (POP) and Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail and Gmail can now be accessed offline at the same time, from the same place. Additionally, Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop allows users to use the iCal standard to take their calendar offline.

Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop Beta Version 3 is available for free download. Anyone with access to Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS), Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL Mail, or an IMAP/POP enabled server can use Zimbra Desktop.

Originally posted on July 24, 2008 @ 11:23 am

Filed Under: Email, Web, Yahoo

Yahoo to offer Rocketmail.com and Ymail.com email domains

March 13, 2023 By Dennis Bouchand 24 Comments

Yahoo! Inc. is offering two new email domains that will give users the chance to register for the e-mail address or Yahoo! ID they have always wanted. Starting today, people can get a new Yahoo! e-mail address at ymail.com and rocketmail.com.

Yahoo! Mail is the number one Web mail service in the world with more than 260 million users worldwide. As a result of its global popularity, many desirable e-mail addresses have already been taken for the yahoo.com domain, as well as for localized versions of the namespace in countries around the world. With the two new e-mail domain choices, Yahoo! will make millions of new e-mail addresses available to the online community.

I have only one comment: Rocketmail is so 90’s.

Originally posted on June 19, 2008 @ 9:07 am

Filed Under: Email, Internet, Web, Yahoo

Score One for the Bad Guys

March 10, 2023 By Andrew G. R. 1 Comment

Squiggly letters and jagged numbers might have already overstayed their welcome on the Web.  These annoying yet necessary human verification tests, which attempt to keep our personal information safe and blogs free of junk, have been defeated.

According to Websense, the security firm that has identified the hacking, warns that a computer was able to beat the system and proceed to create multiple Hotmail accounts in order to disseminate spam.

Similar attacks have recently occurred against Microsoft’s Live Mail accounts and Google’s Gmail and Blogger services.

Ferris Research, an analyst firm specializing in messaging and collaboration, estimates that spam (and preventative measures) cost the U.S. economy $42 billion annually.

Computers are looking more and more human everyday.  Beware.

Read more at the Houston Chronicle.

Originally posted on May 3, 2008 @ 3:37 pm

Filed Under: Email, Spam Tagged With: Email, gmail, hacked, hotmail, human verification, Spam

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