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For the most part, e-newsletters are a great way to keep up to date with the organizations, products and sales that are of interest to you. But sometimes you end up subscribed to an e-newsletter that is simply spam and doesn't offer an easy way to opt out. Instead of letting those newsletter pile...

Yahoo is planning faster email and new search features -- including highlighting key information in a capsule above the results -- for the fall. Can these tech upgrades help bring the cool back to the Internet company?

Google has announced an upgrade to its popular Gmail service called "Priority Inbox," which aims to learn which emails are most important to you, and surfaces those to the top of your email queue. As email arrives, you can mark it more or less important. Thus, over time Gmail will "learn" which emails are most important to you.

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.

If you happen to find an e-mail in your box that begins like this, delete it immediately: My name is Ma Jian; I represent the company Good Goods Co. Ltd, Сhina, Hong Kong. Your resume posted on the job website has impressed the human resources department of our company, and it is an honor for us...

As every parent knows, sometimes it's not what is said that shreds the last, frazzled nerve -- it's the tone. The same goes for email. The message, "Going fishing for three days. Good luck, suckers" might mean the same as, "I'll be taking three vacation days starting Wednesday," but one version...

"Worst Case Scenario (NEED HELP)," said the subject line of an e-mail my wife received. She was surprised to see it was from one of her work colleagues, or so she thought. It said (all errors intact): "I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,my family and I came down here to (Buckinghamshire)...

As more companies communicate via calls, email and video conferencing, instead of face-to-face meetings, teamwork -- and productivity -- may be suffering, according to a new study by consulting firm RW3 CultureWizard.

Spammers are keeping pace with security experts -- and surpassing them -- in the fight for your inbox, cranking up the volume of junk emails sent in the first quarter of 2010.

Tweeting is already easy, but an increasingly popular service is making it even easier. TweetSwitch, from London-based Comufy, makes it possible to tweet while instant messaging or emailing. No need to log on to twitter.com.