A Web-based e-mail service from Microsoft that is available free or paid, based on message storage and attachment capacity, security and other features. Originally developed by Hotmail Corporation and acquired by Microsoft in 1998, Hotmail became the fastest growing e-mail service on the Web. Hotmail was integrated into the Windows Live umbrella in 2007. For more information, visit www.msn.com. See Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live.
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- iSafe AllInOne Keylogger 1.5.9 (Windows)
- iSafe AllInOne Keylogger lets you monitor all the activities and conversations, look at screenshots, and sites they have surfed, the keystrokes, the clipboard they copied and pasted. By activating iSafe Computer Watch, you can monitor everything including blocking unwanted sites/programs. The Key Logger allows you to register all keystrokes typed,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
- LG Chocolate Touch (Verizon Wireless)
- When the LG Chocolate first came into the scene with the VX8500 model back in 2006, it was preceded by a ton of hype. And such is the case with its fourth and most recent incarnation, the LG Chocolate Touch. As the name indicates, it is a touch screen phone...
- Product reviews 2009-11-07
- HTC Droid Eris (Verizon Wireless)
- Editors' note: Portions of this review were taken from our review of the HTC Hero. The two devices share similar features. The HTC Droid Eris is the second Verizon Wireless' Google Android phone after the Motorola Droid. Where the Droid was flashy and high-end, the Droid Eris offers a simpler,...
- Product reviews 2009-11-06
- Google Dashboard brings security settings to the forefront
- Google = power of Linux distro'sDon't tell the rabid Windows users since they sayLinux distro or Linux kernel is a 'niche'....lol sounds like the MS.net passportSo this is google innovating again eh?RE: Google Dashboard brings security settings to the forefrontGoogle and security in the same sentence? That is a...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- EA Domainkeys/DKIM for IIS SMTP Service and Exchange Server 2.1 (Windows)
- With this tool, your IIS SMTP Service and Exchange Server will be enabled to add DomainKeys/DKIM signature to outgoing emails from specified domains, which verify the DNS domain of an email sender and the message integrity, and in turn preventing the emails from your domain from being flagged as spam...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Mozilla goes back to the beta with Firefox 3.6
- Oh bother. Does this mean Firefox 3.5 is buggy and insecure?Having used Firefox since 0.6 I find 3.5 to be one of the less stable versions. I hope that they get the bugs out for 3.6.3 things this version must have or it may fall too far behind1. SELinux/AppArmor...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Mail Notifier for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)
- Mail Notifier for iPhone provides instant push notifications as soon as new emails arrive. Mail Notifier for iPhone works with any free Hotmail, Gmail, or AOL email account. To receive push notifications, simply add your email account in the application. It features support for Hotmail, Gmail, and AOL, ability to...
- Software downloads 2009-11-02
- Phishing experiment sneaks through all anti-spam filters
- A recently conducted ethical phishing New study details the dynamics of successful phishing experiment impersonating LinkedIn by mailing invitations coming from Bill Gates, has achieved a 100% success rate in bypassing the anti-spam filters it was tested against. The experiment emphasizes on how small-scale spear phishing campaigns...
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- txtForward - sms to email (Mobile)
- txtForward automatically forwards a copy of your SMS messages to any email address you provide.You can forward both incoming and outgoing SMS messages.See who's texting you from your desktop.Keep a backup of sent and received text messages via your email account.Don''t lose SMS when changing phone numbers or juggling two...
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- Yahoo Mail outages plague some users
- Scattered reports say the world's most widely used e-mail service was suffering from scattered outages on Monday morning. Yahoo Mail users reported problems Monday morning, with the service inaccessible for some and spotty for others. TechCrunch noticed a Twitter spike in reports of problems with Yahoo...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Iconix eMail ID 3.87.3.9 (Windows)
- Iconix eMail ID lets you see what's real before you even open the message. Iconix eMail ID works with your current email service such as AOL mail, AIM mail, Yahoo mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail, Earthlink, Outlook Express all on IE or FireFox. Iconix eMail ID double checks the source...
- Software downloads 2009-10-24
- Email Overload Syndrome: Too much in too many places
- Dump it all into Gmail sarcasmDump it all into Gmail.Then their magical search engine will not only index the words in the email, but every word you are thinking currently so you can search for that too, even if it doesn't appear in the email.In addition, it will conveniently via...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Less than 24-hours on and a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel surfaces
- 3 Words for you...Windows Live Essentials...Saves on bloat?It was nothing to do with that. Microsoft have said that they unbundled a lot of things from the OS build as it allowed for easier and more frequent updates.Good point.I use Hotmail but also use Live Mail on my own machines as...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Recovery ToolBox for Outlook Password 1.1.10.27 (Windows)
- The tool is designed to recover lost or forgotten passwords for the mail accounts and pst files of the Microsoft Outlook mail client. Recovery ToolBox for Outlook Password is a program that recovers forgotten or lost passwords for mail accounts and also passwords for LDAP services that the Microsoft Outlook...
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- MailWasher Pro (German) 6.53 (Windows)
- MailWasher Pro allows you to preview multiple e-mail accounts and all aspects of your e-mail on the server before you download it to your computer, thus protecting you from spam, viruses, phishing attacks, and other nuisances. The program also learns what kind of e-mail you want to receive and adapts...
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- Pleex for Windows Mobile 1.0 (Mobile)
- Do you remember the ache of no longer having your contacts nor content when you had a new mobile or when somebody stole it from you or else, when you lose your phone during a party or simply when you forgot it at home? Well, with Pleex, you will never...
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- SpamSieve 2.7.7 (Mac)
- SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to popular e-mail clients. It learns what your spam looks like, so it can block nearly all of it. It looks at your address book and learns what your good messages look like, so it won't confuse them...
- Software downloads 2009-10-20
- Real Spy Monitor 2.92 (Windows)
- Real Spy Monitor is an Internet and PC spy-monitoring and security program. It can monitor all PC activity, including keystrokes typed, Web sites visited, Windows opened, programs executed, screens captured, and files and documents accessed. Internet monitoring can record all instant messengers, including AOL, ICQ, MSN, AIM, and Yahoo Messenger,...
- Software downloads 2009-10-20
- Microsoft: Human error caused critical SMB2 vulnerability
- did not explain why the fix was not back-ported to Windows Vista and other That very bad. I was wondering this myself when news broke that Win 7 was not vulnerable.What were they thinking? Fixing a bug and "forgetting" that other versions may actually be vulnerable?Or had they actually recorded...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- LG Bliss - white (US Cellular)
- LG is one of the top makers of touch-screen feature phones, and though many of them go to big national carriers like Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless like the LG enV Touch and the LG Xenon for example, quite a number of them make it to regional carrier U.S. Cellular...
- Product reviews 2009-10-14
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