BufferBritish users of Google’s email system will soon be able to have an account ending @gmail.com rather than @googlemail.com. For the past five years the search firm has been prevented from using the shorter name due to a trademark disagreement … Continue reading
Category Archives: e-mail
Deutsche Post announces new ‘e-letter’ for official correspondence
BufferGermans should soon be able to enter into official correspondence online instead of having to resort to putting it into physical writing, after the country’s postal service announced it would be offering an ‘Internet Letter’ service. The new medium is … Continue reading
Google attacks can be linked to China, claims US security firm
BufferThe attacks on Google email accounts belonging to human rights activists can be traced back to the Chinese government “or its proxies”, according to a US internet security firm. Verisign’s iDefense Labs claims the web addresses involved in the cyber-attack “correspond to a single … Continue reading
China defiant over Google threat
BufferThe Chinese government has said it will stand firm with regard to censorship of the internet following Google’s threat to withdraw from the country. A report in the Financial Times this morning quoted Wang Chen, the head of the State … Continue reading
American BlackBerry users cut off again
BufferOwners of BlackBerry mobile handsets in the US and South America have been hit by service problems for the second time in less than a week. Users across a range of mobile networks complained of being unable to access the … Continue reading
'At least 10,000' victims of Hotmail phishing attack
BufferThousands of accounts on web-based e-mail system Hotmail have been compromised in a phishing attack, software giant Microsoft confirmed. BBC News says it has seen a list of more than 10,000 e-mail accounts, predominantly originating from Europe, and passwords which … Continue reading
