Victor Cho wants to reimagine the way people communicate at work. Cho, the former CEO of Evite, is leading a stealthy new Seattle startup that wants to do away with… Read More
Amazon plans to give third-party sellers a series of new marketing tools, including the ability to send emails to customers who’ve made repeat or recent purchases, or spent large amounts… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: OthersideAI thinks it can help you be more productive by using artificial intelligence to write your emails for you.… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week. Not everyone loves Apple’s App Store, it seems. This week, it became a target of criticism for its arcane… Read More
Microsoft is offering companies a new antidote to one of the most troublesome viral reactions in the workplace. The new “Reply All Storm Protection” for Exchange Online on Office 365… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is formally protesting a decision by the U.S. Department of Defense to award its $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract to Microsoft, suggesting… Read More
Update, Monday, 3 p.m.: Mike Davidson has returned with another personal blog post about Superhuman, calling the startup’s privacy fixes “superficial” and saying that none of the changes keep the… Read More
For every electronic device or method we use as humans, in an effort to communicate with other humans, the desire to interact face to face still beats them all according… Read More
Hackers have a better chance of getting into encrypted email than previously thought, according to a new paper released Monday by a team of European cybersecurity researchers. Efail, as the… Read More
The City of Seattle’s IT department is dealing with the all-too-familiar feeling of giving out too much information — on an extreme scale. The department announced this afternoon that it… Read More
Microsoft today announced Outlook.com Beta, a new opt-in program that lets users try new features powered by artificial intelligence and design changes. Some of the new updates users can test… Read More
The U.S. Justice Department petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court late Friday to overturn a ruling that blocked its warrant to obtain email from a Microsoft customer stored in the company’s… Read More
The government needs a warrant to search your home or listen to your phone calls and, soon, it may also need one to view your old email. The U.S. House… Read More
Sol Villarreal knows a thing or two about socio-political bubbles. He grew up in rural Texas as a religious conservative and voted for George W. Bush before undergoing a “full… Read More
TheSkimm’s secret sauce is cleverly and playfully reframing the daily news in a way that resonates with its target demographic — female young professionals. So it’s fitting that the media company’s… Read More
About a year ago, I decided I couldn’t take Apple’s native iOS Mail app anymore and I dumped it for the Gmail app, which has proven to be a much more… Read More
A Seattle startup thinks there is a better way to manage email. Founded in 2013 by two former Microsoft employees, TouchMail is a mobile and visual-focused app for Windows 8.1… Read More
“All the News That’s Fit to Print” doesn’t need a ton of space when it’s limited to one word. The New York Times, under a “Tech Tip” label in its… Read More
Microsoft’s latest attempt to appeal to young people reeks of more desperation than your middle-aged aunt trying to pull off a Kendall + Kylie crop top. Twitter user Patrick Burtchaell… Read More
Millennials are often called the digital generation, but perhaps a lifetime online has taught them the importance of unplugging from time to time. A new survey finds that 49 percent of… Read More
“Grammar snobs are a distinct breed from their gentle cousins: word nerds and grammar geeks,” writes June Casagrande in Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies. “The difference is bloodlust.” A new… Read More
Raymond Tomlinson, the man credited with being the inventor of email as we know it today, died on Saturday at age 74 according to Raytheon, the defense technology company where… Read More
Email is here to stay, but apps trying to make it better might not be doing so well. Last year, Dropbox announced it was shutting down the once-innovative Mailbox app two… Read More
There are plenty of ways to keep track of your trips. TripIt keeps robust itineraries with all your travel plans, or you could go old-school with a OneNote notebook full or… Read More
I love newsletters. Not only do they bring all the top news right into my inbox for reading anywhere, but there’s also a newsletter for just about every one of… Read More
Weary of spambots, robo-calls and Twitter bots? Google is coming out with an artificial-intelligence tool that’s on your side for a change: Smart Reply, a feature that’s built into its… Read More
The death of email is a common trope of technology reporting for time immemorial. With options like Google Chat, Slack, Dropbox, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, it seems like email could… Read More
It seems that declaring love via a voicemail pales in comparison to getting a romantic email. That’s the news from a study out of the Indiana University in Bloomington. The group… Read More
No matter how much you hate it, email isn’t going anywhere. But that doesn’t mean developers can’t use it to build something better. Microsoft Garage’s latest creation, released today for the… Read More
Last week, Google traffic spiked to my tutorial, How to Install Your own Private Email Server, and I wasn’t sure why until a Washington Post reporter called me. She wanted… Read More
