Check your email: Startup wants to disrupt workplace communication with video messages Victor Cho wants to reimagine the way people communicate at work. Cho, the former CEO of Evite, is leading a… Read More
Amazon will let sellers send email messages to more customers in expansion of marketing tools Amazon plans to give third-party sellers a series of new marketing tools, including the ability to send emails to customers… Read More
Play Episode Podcast GeekWire Podcast: AI that writes your emails; a Seattle tech visionary; trivia challenge returns Play Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: OthersideAI thinks it can help you be more productive… Read More
Play Episode Podcast GeekWire Podcast: The case against Apple’s App Store; IPOs go crazy; quest for a better email inbox Play Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week. Not everyone loves Apple’s App Store, it seems. This… Read More
Microsoft releases ‘Reply All Storm Protection’ for Office 365, preps text prediction for Outlook on web Microsoft is offering companies a new antidote to one of the most troublesome viral reactions in the workplace. The new… Read More
Play Episode Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Amazon protests JEDI deal; Cortana reads email; Cosmic Crisp first taste Play This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is formally protesting a decision by the U.S. Department of Defense to award… Read More
Super concerned with Superhuman: Seattle tech vet takes issue with new email app ‘spying’ on users Update, Monday, 3 p.m.: Mike Davidson has returned with another personal blog post about Superhuman, calling the startup’s privacy fixes… Read More
Real human interaction still preferred over texting, email and social media, according to survey For every electronic device or method we use as humans, in an effort to communicate with other humans, the desire… Read More
Researchers say new ‘Efail’ security risk undermines encrypted e-mail Hackers have a better chance of getting into encrypted email than previously thought, according to a new paper released Monday… Read More
Seattle IT department accidentally releases nearly two months of emails from city employees The City of Seattle’s IT department is dealing with the all-too-familiar feeling of giving out too much information — on… Read More
Microsoft rolls out Outlook.com beta program to test new features fueled by AI and design changes Microsoft today announced Outlook.com Beta, a new opt-in program that lets users try new features powered by artificial intelligence and… Read More
Microsoft calls DOJ’s Supreme Court appeal in email case ‘backward’ given progress on new law The U.S. Justice Department petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court late Friday to overturn a ruling that blocked its warrant to… Read More
The U.S. House just passed an act requiring a warrant to search your old email The government needs a warrant to search your home or listen to your phone calls and, soon, it may also… Read More
Podcast ‘Last Week in Trump’: Newsletter distills the hyper-partisan news to create empathy on both sides Sol Villarreal knows a thing or two about socio-political bubbles. He grew up in rural Texas as a religious conservative… Read More
How theSkimm became the news cheat sheet of choice for millennial women TheSkimm’s secret sauce is cleverly and playfully reframing the daily news in a way that resonates with its target demographic… Read More
A love letter to the new and improved iOS Gmail app About a year ago, I decided I couldn’t take Apple’s native iOS Mail app anymore and I dumped it for the… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Ex-Microsoft employees want to reinvent email with TouchMail app for Windows A Seattle startup thinks there is a better way to manage email. Founded in 2013 by two former Microsoft employees,… Read More
The New York Times ran a 1-word story to offer email etiquette advice “All the News That’s Fit to Print” doesn’t need a ton of space when it’s limited to one word. The… Read More
‘Hell yes to getting lit on a Monday night!’ Microsoft recruiter’s disastrous attempt to reach hip youths unravels on Twitter Microsoft’s latest attempt to appeal to young people reeks of more desperation than your middle-aged aunt trying to pull off… Read More
Study: Tech-savvy millennials are more likely to unplug on vacation Millennials are often called the digital generation, but perhaps a lifetime online has taught them the importance of unplugging from… Read More
It’s official: Study confirms grammar snobs really are the worst “Grammar snobs are a distinct breed from their gentle cousins: word nerds and grammar geeks,” writes June Casagrande in Grammar… Read More
Raymond Tomlinson, ‘the father of email’ who chose the ‘@’ symbol, dies at 74 Raymond Tomlinson, the man credited with being the inventor of email as we know it today, died on Saturday at… Read More
Email is still hard: InboxVudu shutting down, and our inboxes are about to get a lot messier Email is here to stay, but apps trying to make it better might not be doing so well. Last year,… Read More
Google beefs up Inbox’s trip-planning features just in time for holiday travel There are plenty of ways to keep track of your trips. TripIt keeps robust itineraries with all your travel plans, or… Read More
App of the Week: Swipe to unsubscribe with Unroll.me’s new Tinder-like email app I love newsletters. Not only do they bring all the top news right into my inbox for reading anywhere, but… Read More
Smart Reply: Google enlists machine learning to help you robo-reply to email Weary of spambots, robo-calls and Twitter bots? Google is coming out with an artificial-intelligence tool that’s on your side for… Read More
App of the Week: InboxVudu cuts through inbox clutter to find all the emails that need your attention The death of email is a common trope of technology reporting for time immemorial. With options like Google Chat, Slack,… Read More
‘I just called to say I love you’ not the best way to express affection anymore It seems that declaring love via a voicemail pales in comparison to getting a romantic email. That’s the news from… Read More
Microsoft’s new ‘Send’ app for iPhone is a messaging client with an email backbone No matter how much you hate it, email isn’t going anywhere. But that doesn’t mean developers can’t use it to… Read More
Why you shouldn’t try to host your own email Last week, Google traffic spiked to my tutorial, How to Install Your own Private Email Server, and I wasn’t sure… Read More
