On Message with Ben Gross

Years in the Making, Powerful Yahoo Mail Is Worth the Wait | Personal Technology | Walt Mossberg | AllThingsD: Walt Mossberg gives a very positive review to the new Yahoo Mail service that is just coming out of beta. The new mail service has a look and feel very much like Outlook and [...]

Hear no evil, see no evil: business e-mail overtakes the telephone | NetworkWorld.com Community: a report on a study from Datamonitor/Dimension Data about workplace communication. The survey studied 390 IT managers and 524 enterprise users from 13 countries.
DynDNS: Newsletter — Issue 8: MailHop and NDRs: DynDNS, one of the larger dynamic DNS services will no [...]

Introducing Zoho Viewer: a new service from Zoho that is billed as an attachment replacement service. Users can upload a variety of common office document types (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) which are then converted to images and given a URL. No login, account, plugins, or software other than a modern web browser is needed to [...]

The second Office 2.0 conference will run from September 5-7, 2007 at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. One day of Open Space style discussion that is open to the public will precede the two days of formal conference. This year there are four parallel tracks that include two demo tracks, an Enterprise 2.0 [...]

Smartphone Browser Shootout: Palm, BlackBerry, HTC Vs. iPhone: An article by David DeJean at InformationWeek. The author describes a series of tests of various mobile phone browsers. It discusses both rendering and usability. The author describes the overall winner as the iPhone. It’s unfortunate that the review did not include a Symbian model and did [...]

Annals of Technology: Damn Spam: “The losing war on junk e-mail” by Michael Specter in The New Yorker is a lengthy overview of the current state of spam and filtering written for a popular audience. Many well known anti-spam vendors are quoted.
New API: It Slices! It Dices! It Uploads Your Docs!: Google released a GData [...]

Video for Merlin’s Google Tech Talk: Inbox Zero: Merlin Man of 43folders links to the video of his talk at Google titled “Inbox Zero” about managing your email inbox. Merlin also provides links to the slides for the talk online.
You might be paying $1,000 per MB for SMS: a piece from Mobile Jones estimating the [...]

Fingerprinting the World’s Mail Servers: is a short research article by by Ken Simpson and Stas Bekman in O’Reilly Sysadmin investigating the percentage of deployed SMTP servers. The authors queried the servers of 400,000 and analyzed the results. The top three servers according to this study are: Sendmail (12.3 percent), Postfix (8.6 percent), Postini (8.5 [...]

Social Networking Goes Global Major Social Networking Sites Substantially Expanded
Their Global Visitor Base during Past Year: A new report from comScore outlines growth metrics of the top social networking sites. Of the top three sites in terms of total unique visitors, MySpace is the largest social network which grew 72 percent between June 2006 and [...]