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Email

Check your email: Startup wants to disrupt workplace communication with video messages

by Kurt Schlosser on June 5, 2024June 5, 2024 at 8:22 am

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 will let sellers send email messages to more customers in expansion of marketing tools

by Todd Bishop on September 14, 2022September 14, 2022 at 3:29 pm

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

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: AI that writes your emails; a Seattle tech visionary; trivia challenge returns

by Curt Milton on November 14, 2020November 14, 2020 at 7:58 am

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

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: The case against Apple’s App Store; IPOs go crazy; quest for a better email inbox

by Curt Milton on June 20, 2020June 20, 2020 at 11:05 am

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

News Brief

Microsoft releases ‘Reply All Storm Protection’ for Office 365, preps text prediction for Outlook on web

by Todd Bishop on May 11, 2020May 11, 2020 at 9:46 am

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

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Amazon protests JEDI deal; Cortana reads email; Cosmic Crisp first taste

by Todd Bishop on November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 at 9:34 am

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

Super concerned with Superhuman: Seattle tech vet takes issue with new email app ‘spying’ on users

by Kurt Schlosser on July 2, 2019July 8, 2019 at 3:00 pm

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

Real human interaction still preferred over texting, email and social media, according to survey

by Kurt Schlosser on November 20, 2018November 20, 2018 at 9:41 am

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

Researchers say new ‘Efail’ security risk undermines encrypted e-mail

by Tony Lystra on May 14, 2018May 14, 2018 at 9:42 am

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

Seattle IT department accidentally releases nearly two months of emails from city employees

by Monica Nickelsburg on October 3, 2017October 3, 2017 at 4:26 pm

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 rolls out Outlook.com beta program to test new features fueled by AI and design changes

by Taylor Soper on August 8, 2017August 8, 2017 at 10:50 am

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

Microsoft calls DOJ’s Supreme Court appeal in email case ‘backward’ given progress on new law

by Todd Bishop on June 24, 2017June 24, 2017 at 6:59 am

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 U.S. House just passed an act requiring a warrant to search your old email

by Jillian Stampher on February 6, 2017February 6, 2017 at 4:21 pm

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

Podcast

‘Last Week in Trump’: Newsletter distills the hyper-partisan news to create empathy on both sides

by Monica Nickelsburg on January 19, 2017February 6, 2017 at 1:33 pm

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

How theSkimm became the news cheat sheet of choice for millennial women

by Monica Nickelsburg on November 15, 2016November 15, 2016 at 1:05 pm

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

A love letter to the new and improved iOS Gmail app

by Monica Nickelsburg on November 7, 2016November 7, 2016 at 1:32 pm

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

Startup Spotlight: Ex-Microsoft employees want to reinvent email with TouchMail app for Windows

by Taylor Soper on September 29, 2016September 29, 2016 at 6:15 pm

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

The New York Times

The New York Times ran a 1-word story to offer email etiquette advice

by Kurt Schlosser on September 2, 2016September 2, 2016 at 2:38 pm

“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

‘Hell yes to getting lit on a Monday night!’ Microsoft recruiter’s disastrous attempt to reach hip youths unravels on Twitter

by Monica Nickelsburg on July 6, 2016July 6, 2016 at 3:39 pm

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

Study: Tech-savvy millennials are more likely to unplug on vacation

by Monica Nickelsburg on June 22, 2016June 22, 2016 at 8:36 am

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

It’s official: Study confirms grammar snobs really are the worst

by Monica Nickelsburg on April 15, 2016April 15, 2016 at 12:44 pm

“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

Raymond Tomlinson, ‘the father of email’ who chose the ‘@’ symbol, dies at 74

by Kurt Schlosser on March 7, 2016March 7, 2016 at 3:20 pm

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 still hard: InboxVudu shutting down, and our inboxes are about to get a lot messier

by James Risley on February 22, 2016February 22, 2016 at 3:58 pm

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

Google beefs up Inbox’s trip-planning features just in time for holiday travel

by James Risley on December 14, 2015December 14, 2015 at 9:38 am

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

App of the Week: Swipe to unsubscribe with Unroll.me’s new Tinder-like email app

by James Risley on November 11, 2015November 11, 2015 at 4:49 pm

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

Smart Reply: Google enlists machine learning to help you robo-reply to email

by Alan Boyle on November 3, 2015November 3, 2015 at 1:29 pm

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

App of the Week: InboxVudu cuts through inbox clutter to find all the emails that need your attention

by James Risley on September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 at 12:31 pm

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

‘I just called to say I love you’ not the best way to express affection anymore

by Molly Brown on September 11, 2015September 11, 2015 at 9:53 am

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

Microsoft’s new ‘Send’ app for iPhone is a messaging client with an email backbone

by James Risley on July 22, 2015July 22, 2015 at 11:11 am

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

Why you shouldn’t try to host your own email

by Jeff Reifman on March 9, 2015March 9, 2015 at 4:55 pm

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

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