Articles tagged "email"

Bang With Friends is now quantifying sexiness with a FICO-esque number.

Email is arguably the most important bit of tech you've got, but email's still the same as it's always been: You get a stack of letters every day in your inbox to deal with, and eventually those messages get bumped off by new ones. Because of the pro…

It's hard to walk into a shop or restaurant these days without getting hit in the face by a "Like Us on Facebook" or "Follow Us on Twitter" sign. Sometimes, they even like to put them out on the sidewalk so that the chalkboard reads something along t…

As a user of the Internet, I’m sure you already know all about Nigerian email scammers (if not, email me, I have a business proposition you might be interested in). Scambaiters are a group of people who fight back against the scammers by leading them…

Seven years ago, Bill Gates "told the world":http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/24/tech/main595595.shtml that spam would be gone in two years; what we got instead was growth in the mutli-billion dollar industry trying to stop it. Yet research…

While Nigeria's 401 scammers may have written the book on West African internet fraud, their shtick looks like Compuserve compared to what's going on in Ghana. Unsatisfied with the meager winnings from emailing thousands of random Westerners in hopes…

In 1971, while working as an engineer on the government-funded ur-internet known as "ARPANET":http://www.motherboard.tv/2009/11/25/this-computer-gave-birth-to-the-internet, Ray Tomlinson invented email as we know it. His wasn't the first piece of ele…