You bought into mobile email - what have you got to show for it?
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Have mobiles increased productivity? Mobile Clinic Our mobile clinic returns today, this time looking to get some clarity on whether or not we really have become more efficient since the advent of the mobile phone, and if we have, by how much, and why. As before our panel of experts provide their opinion, something which you can do to via the comment forms at the bottom of the article.â¦
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Trust but verify A consortium of British and US military agencies and defense and aerospace firms have agreed a new standard for secure email. Security experts are watching the developments closely, but are unsure how much of the specification will make it into public use or commercial email security products.â¦
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Who decides? In our recent mobile state of the nation survey, we asked you about what was important in a mobile device. In many respects, the results were pretty predictable in that, surprise surprise, battery life and decent voice capability were top of the list:â¦
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Open-source mobile e-mail provider Funambol is working with advertising company Amobee to give network operators a way to offer free e-mail services to users.The new mobile offering, which Funambol plans to announce on Tuesday and demonstrate in Barcelona next week at the Mobile World Congress, will display banner ads served up by Amobee on every page of the e-mail software. The banners take up about two lines of a mobile phone screen, leaving plenty of space for users to read their e-mails, said Hal Steger, vice president of marketing for Funambol.Funambol must sell the idea to operators, which would then self-brand the e-mail service and offer it to end-users. Steger envisions that operators will let customers access the e-mail service for free, without requiring them to subscribe to a monthly data plan, because the operators will earn revenue from the advertisements.But Funambol would have to convince operators that they&#8217;ll make as much or more in advertising than in their monthly data subscriptions before they&#39;ll want to offer mobile e-mail for free. &#8220;Unless there was considerable potential revenue, which I think is doubtful but who knows... operators won&#8217;t want to cannibalize their subscription model,&#8221; said Greg Sterling, an analyst following mobile search and advertising as part of a joint venture between Sterling Market Research and Opus ResearchIn the future, however, operators may feel forced to begin offering ad-supported data services, he said. For example, if a winner of the 700MHz licenses currently on auction by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission deploys a network and offers free ad-supported services, other operators may begin to follow suit, he said.Funambol already offers its open-source push e-mail software to operators. The service supports the open SyncML standard so it&#8217;s compatible with Java and Windows Mobile phones, which Funambol estimates make up about half of all phones on the market.So far, no operator offers Funambol&#8217;s open-source e-mail, but two are offering Funambol&#8217;s backup service for calendar and address book information. Those operators include one in South Africa, which Steger wasn&#8217;t allowed to name, and Comcel in Columbia. Both plan to begin offering the open-source e-mail service, he said.Operators in less-developed regions like South America might be more likely to offer the ad-supported e-mail service. That&#39;s because in those regions, end-users are quite price-sensitive -- so operators have a harder time selling them data subscriptions, Steger said.
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Google's GMail Resembling Desktop Mail Client  The more I use GMail and Google keeps on enhancing this webmail service, the more I look at it as a replacement to desktop mail clients. I have been using GMail for my personal mails and I cannot hide the fact that I am loving ...
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What kind of E-mail is landing in Martin Taylorâs in-box right about now? Itâs probably not unlike some of the messages Iâve been getting in response to a story I wrote about Steve Ballmerâs Oct. 27
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By Garry Bushell  A BIG thank-you to Virgin for closing my email account without warning. All the nice reviews I'd written of Jo Brand and Louis Walsh were lost forever. Any company able to supply a better internet service, please feel free to get in touch.
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Debate round-up Thank you to all who took the time to comment on the recent article "Mobile email: Let's have a heated debate." Although there are some differences of opinion, nearly all our commentators felt that mobile email is a valuable tool.â¦
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The e-mail messages are tantalizing: "Join now and receive a free I.B.M. laptop." Are these offers for real?
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The web services company shows off its next-generation browser-based mail client, an answer to Google's Gmail. Plus: TechCrunch announces an enterprise blog.... More live coverage from the
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Will the company be able to keep the name of its new email service?
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Coming soon to a phone near you: spam, scams and viruses galore. Your text messages, address book and calls could be up for grabs. By Annalee Newitz from Wired magazine.
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Q: What is the best thing to do if you send an e-mail to someone by mistake, and the e-mail contains some content that is not favorable toward that person?
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Too much choice? Mobile Workshop As part of our series of articles on mobile email, this week weâre tackling the subject of the mobile devices themselves. As the actual user interface of a mobile email solution, as well as a potential replacement or substitute of (for some at least) a very personal item, a number of interesting discussion points are raised. Weâd like to get your comments and later in the week weâll do a wrap up and run a mini-survey to close.â¦
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That email from your bank may be more than a friendly enquiry. It could be the hook of a Phisher, the new breed of Internet fraudster intent on stealing money by tricking customers into divulging online account details.
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A phishing scam has been detected that doesn&#39;t require users to click on a link in order to jeopardise their personal data. Simply opening the email may be enough, according to Messagelabs.
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Thou shalt not live by mobile email alone Reg Technology Panel Youâre out and about, and you know youâll need to hook back to the office to pick up that important email or access that corporate system â so what do you want to take, a notebook or a handheld device?â¦