blog.rapleaf.com - 10/22/2009
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Depth Look at AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Email Users – Part 1: Age and Gender
technobuzz.net - 10/27/2009
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technobuzz.net —
This new GMAIL notifier is similar to the
current official Google notifier application that sits in the...
system tray and notifies users of new messages in their Gmail inbox. This version of the Gmail notifier is tuned for Windows 7 only and runs as a task bar. The program will display ...
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Download Windows 7 Gmail Notifier
mashable.com - 10/20/2009
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mashable.com —
Does your email address reveal something about your
credit score? According to Credit Karma , an online...
credit checking service, it might. The company has taken data from its users and split it up by email address, finding that Yahoo Mail users ...
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Gmail Users Have Higher Credit Scores than Yahoo Mail ...
google.com - 10/26/2009
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google.com —
When you open new messages, some images may
not appear immediately. Gmail disables images to protect you...
from unknown senders, like spammers, who use images and links to verify that your email address is real. In order for Gmail messages to show ...
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Gmail Users are Young, Female; AOL Users are Older
ReadWriteWeb —
... For the Rapleaf study, the company sampled 120,000 webmail accounts from users with @aol.com, @gmail.com, @hotmail.com, and @yahoo.com email addresses. They then looked into the users' age and gender after having collected the data from social media profiles where people have publicly disclosed this information. Obviously, in doing so, they've skewed their findings a bit, as the company notes in their blog post. Users of social media sites already tend to be younger, so it's not surprising that they found that the majority of the webmail users studied were young with 75% under ...
Rapleaf Looks At Age, Gender Of Email Users
WebProNews Feed —
... Rapleaf sampled 120,000 people who deal with a major email provider (Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, or AOL Mail). It turns out that, in terms of popularity, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail may be ahead with minors. Gmail does quite well with young adults. ...
Gmail Users Better-Connected, More Likely to Tweet than Members of other Webmail Services
ReadWriteWeb —
... For the Rapleaf study, the company sampled 120,000 webmail accounts from users with @aol.com, @gmail.com, @hotmail.com, and @yahoo.com email addresses. They then looked into the users' age, gender, and social networking data by collecting information from public social media profiles. Obviously, in doing so, they've skewed their findings a bit, as the company notes in their original blog post. However, the sample size is large enough to form some conclusions about the members of these services, even if it relied on a particular subset of users. ...
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Gmail Users are Young, Female; AOL Users are Older
readwriteweb.com 10/22/2009 — Social media data company Rapleaf has just completed a comprehensive study involving the demographics and behavior of webmail users. In the first part of their study, they looked specifically at age and gender data and revealed some interesting ...
Gmail & Yahoo also Hit By E-mail Phishing Attacks
technobuzz.net 10/7/2009 —
Yesterday we reported on the big news that thousands of Hotmail Passwords Leaked online . Now Users of Gmail and Yahoo have joined Hotmail as victims in what appears to be a large-scale webmail phishing campaign designed to steal login credentials. The 10,000 passwords and user names, ...
E-mail Password Scam Spreads to Gmail, AOL Mail, and Yahoo!
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Yesterday, reports emerged that 10,000 Hotmail account addresses and passwords had been posted to the site PasteBin.com . Today, BBC News revealed that it has discovered another incriminating list containing log-in information for 20,000 additional e-mail addresses. The new batch, though, ...
Gmail, AOL and Yahoo email logins posted online in phishing scam
guardian.co.uk 10/7/2009 — More than a quarter of a million email accounts on the biggest webmail services are believed to be at risk from online criminals after thousands of passwords belonging to users of the Yahoo, AOL and Gmail services were posted online. The breach, ...
Yahoo FAQ
xoopit.com 10/2/2009 — Why are we closing the Xoopit for Gmail service? Xoopit teamed up with Yahoo! in July 2009. We are excited to be making the world's best email platform a fantastic place to see and share photos, and decided that the best way to make that happen is to ...
20,000+ Gmail, Yahoo, AOL Accounts Compromised [ALERT]
mashable.com 10/6/2009 — Yesterday, it was revealed that 10,000+ Hotmail accounts were compromised and all of the usernames and passwords of these accounts were posted online. It was a major security and scam issue, but it was thought to only affect Hotmail users.
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Yahoo! shuts down Xoopit for Gmail users
pheedcontent.com 10/4/2009 —
Xoopit is a service that turns Gmail into a powerful media browser, letting you quickly view your attachments. Since Yahoo! acquired it, though, it's been available to Yahoo! Mail users, and now Yahoo! is looking to make it exclusive. Xoopit will become the My Photos feature of Yahoo! ...
Gmail Nudges Past AOL Email In The U.S. To Take No. 3 Spot.
techcrunch.com 8/16/2009 —
Good thing Gmail is out of beta. It is now the third largest Web mail service in the U.S. In July, Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million for AOL, according to comScore estimates. That puts Gmail ...
Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Others Also Hit by Phishing Attack
readwriteweb.com 10/6/2009 — Yesterday's phishing attack in which several thousand Hotmail username and password combinations were leaked to the web now appears to be just the beginning of a massive phishing attack affecting users of multiple webmail services including Gmail, ...
Brin: Yahoo shouldn't abandon search —
CNET News.com 10/22/2009
In a surprise talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said that he welcomes new competition in the search sector and is disappointed that Yahoo's backing off.
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