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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- 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
- Yahoo Mail outages plague some users
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- News items 2009-10-26
- Iconix eMail ID 3.87.3.9 (Windows)
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- Software downloads 2009-10-24
- Email Overload Syndrome: Too much in too many places
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- 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)
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- Software downloads 2009-10-22
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- 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
- Microsoft adds an 'Office Starter' edition to its distribution plans
- Consumer PreinstallsAs a preinstall on new consumer computers, it makes a lot more sense than Microsoft Works.Family packs, payment plans, unlimited downloadsI think if MS offered family pack bundles; partial payments over periods of time until the software is fully paid for; and unlimited downloads of the software to registered...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Easy Inbox Mailer 3.0 (Windows)
- Easy Inbox Mailer is a bulk email sending software which allows html and text email sending with email attachments.Send unlimited email using Gmail and Hotmail smtp from desktop. Just add few gmail or hotmail account and select the number of emails you want to send using each account and the...
- Software downloads 2009-10-08
- (Photos: Popular Mechanics' 2009 Breakthrough Award winners)
- .....as they circle distant suns?I rather doubt Keppler is travelling at the speed of light. The binary system of Alpha-Centauri is 4.2 light years. At the current speeds of our space craft it would take over 100,000 earth years to reach these closest neighbors to our sun. Popular Mechanics often...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Next-gen operating systems: Facebook on steroids?
- Chrome OS is a key building blockThis is why I think the concept of Chrome OS is so powerful.Sure you will be able to use your web apps offline, like desktop apps (thanks to HTML5/Gears), but the core functionality of the apps will live in the cloud. And because the...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- News to know: AT&T; Apple; Google; Verizon; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak Larry Dignan: The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
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