e-mail

Six out of ten people check e-mail during the holidays, and many find that there are messages from their workplaces. A new poll by Harris Interactive and Xobni shows that 59% of employed Americans check their work email during family holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Verizon Wireless will sell the Droid Pro, Motorola's (MOT) first device for business customers that uses the Google (GOOG) Android operating platform. The new device will feature corporate-level security on e-mails, Reuters reported. It will also support Flash software and have Wi-Fi short-range...

JPMorgan Chase may allow employees to use the Apple iPhone for work email, making the smartphone an alternative to the BlackBerry. JPMorgan is testing the iPhone as well as smartphones that use Google's Android software.

You've got gigabytes worth of email, but how do you sort through it all? Google hopes to help with a new tool, called "Priority Inbox," that will highlight important messages in Gmail. At least now you'll have another excuse for ignoring those less-important emails.

Research In Motion (RIMM) may come up with a solution this week to allow Indian security authorities access to e-mails on the company's BlackBerry device, Reuters reported. RIM has until Aug. 31 to give security agencies the ability to track and read BlackBerry Enterprise e-mail and BlackBerry...

Into every life, a little spam must fall. About half the e-mail sent every day is junk. You can be as careful as you want with your e-mail address, yet somehow, word gets out, and the junk flows in. But there is one thing you can do to trace leaks when they occur, and it's free. The secret is to...

The firm will use screening tools to detect common swear words and acronyms, joining several others, such as Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, that already have such rules about keeping email clean.

In an extraordinary blog post, Frank Shaw presses a case for the company's primacy in tech -- clearly a reaction to its many critics and skeptics on Wall Street, given that Microsoft's share price is less than half what it was in 1999.

There is a lot of buzz these days over a new product called Google (GOOG) Wave. Some are under the false impression that it's the next Twitter, but this new tool from Google is very different. Think of it as a real-time collaboration tool that includes, among its many features, email on...

Wall Street Journal writer Jessica E. Vascellaro recently wrote a provocative article arguing that e-mail is giving way to other, richer forms of communication: Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging, and (on an approach vector) Google Wave (GOOG). Fifteen years ago, electronic mail was fresh and...