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In an attempt to crack down on spam, Facebook has shut down a number of third-party software applications in the past week. The move could signal that the world's most popular social network plans maintain righter control over the apps that run on its site.

In its latest attempt to get users to spend more time on its website, Yahoo has overhauled its free email service with new features that debut Wednesday. Email will be twice as fast, with easier picture and video viewing and the ability to "tweet" directly from Yahoo email to Twitter.

I have a love/hate relationship with Gmail. As a foolish youth, I entrusted the free version of Gmail in its early beta days with reams of critical communications. Now I'm permanently wedded to at least partial usage of Google (GOOG)'s much-loved, and recently reviled, online email product. Now,...

We read today that Microsoft (MSFT) is finally releasing an Outlook email client for Mac, according to TUAW and others. It's about time. Microsoft has specifically fenced out Apple (AAPL) users by making it just hard enough to run the Microsoft Entourage mail client on corporate IT systems. But why...