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Outlook.com migration complete, service hits 400 million active accounts

Outlook.com migration complete, service hits 400 million active accounts
  • Posted May 2, 2013, 4:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Microsoft
  • Microsoft today announced it has completed moving its Hotmail.com users over to Outlook.com, roughly nine months after first taking the wraps off its revamped email service at the end of July 2012. According to the company, there are currently 400…

Infographic: Looking back at Gmail on its 9th birthday

Infographic: Looking back at Gmail on its 9th birthday
  • Posted April 11, 2013, 7:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
  • It's hard to imagine Google without its spaghetti bowl of web services, but less than a decade ago it didn't even provide email. Gmail shook up the Internet when it entered beta on April Fool's Day, 2004, offering handy features such as threaded conversations as well as a whole gig...

Outlook.com suffers 16-hour outage due to overheating datacenter

Outlook.com suffers 16-hour outage due to overheating datacenter
  • Posted March 14, 2013, 10:46 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Microsoft, The Web
  • Microsoft suffered a massive server outage yesterday that left users of Outlook.com, Hotmail, Calendar and SkyDrive unable to access all or parts of those services for a 16-hour stretch. In a blog post explaining the situation, Microsoft's Arthur de Haan…

AOL reimagines email with Alto web client for Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud

AOL reimagines email with Alto web client for Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud
  • Posted October 18, 2012, 11:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Software
  • Managing your email can be a chore with the never-ending stream of messages from social networks, newsletters, daily deals, retailers and other services we’ve signed up to over the years clogging up our inbox. AOL believes it can make things…

Google gains legal right to use Gmail brand in Germany

Google gains legal right to use Gmail brand in Germany
  • Posted June 20, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Google happily announced on its blog today that @googlemail.com will now become @gmail.com in Germany. This marks the first time in several years that @gmail.com will be the default option for German users. Google had switched to @googlemail.com following a…

Gmail suffers brief outage, Google Apps users unaffected

Gmail suffers brief outage, Google Apps users unaffected
  • Posted April 17, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
  • For those who've been spending their lives in the cloud, it would appear it's time to come back down to Earth -- Gmail briefly went down Tuesday. The popular email service took a nose dive around 9:42am PST. Although social media sites like Twitter were abuzz with vivid stories...

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