Slice brings its ecommerce tracking smarts to Gmail
Shopping-tool startup Slice is available for for Gmail users today, the company announced, which opens up the ecommerce tracking tool to an additional 200 million users worldwide.
Previously available for Yahoo Mail users, Slice helps shoppers track their purchases from checkout, to their doorstep in one central location, as opposed to having to comb through their inbox for information about each purchase from sites like Amazon.com, eBay and Groupon.
Slice is available as a standalone … Continue Reading
Hotmail introduces aliases to create temporary email addresses
Microsoft has enabled the use of aliases its widely-used Hotmail email service. The new feature enables Hotmail users to add temporary email addresses in situations when they do not wish to use their personal, or every-day email address.
According to Windows Live director of product management Dharmesh Mehta, the move is really about pushing Microsoft’s email beyond the competition.
And when he says “competition”, he means Google.
Aliases are a nifty way of routing one-time … Continue Reading
Yahoo Mail singled out as Windows Phone 7 data vampire (updated)
Windows Phone 7 users can blame Yahoo Mail for their mysteriously high 3G data usage, the company revealed to Windows Phone Secrets yesterday.
Microsoft didn’t admit Yahoo was the problem until Within Windows’ Rafael Rivera did some sleuthing and confirmed that Yahoo’s mail server was sending around 25 times as much data as it needed to. Previously, Microsoft would only say that an unnamed third-party was the root of the issue.
Many thought that Microsoft … Continue Reading
Yahoo Mail gets a face lift and a speed boost
Tonight, Yahoo Mail is unveiling a test version of the big upgrade it has been promising users.
That should be big news for the 273 million users that Yahoo Mail claims worldwide, but it’s also an important move for the struggling company. Mail makes accounts for more than half the pageviews that Yahoo receives in the United States, and traffic has fallen an average of 11 percent compared to last year, according to comScore data … Continue Reading
A quick tour of the new Yahoo Mail (video)
Yahoo executives previewed several new products today as part of what they described as a three-year strategy for quicker, more unified product development. It looks like the most significant changes are coming to Yahoo Mail this fall — it’s supposed to be faster, with an improved interface, as well as stronger integration with social networks and other Web services.
Senior Product Manager Stephanie Shum gave me a short demo of the new service, which you … Continue Reading
Yahoo unveils three-year plan to become cool again
Yahoo executives spoke to journalists at the company’s Sunnyvale, Calif. headquarters this morning about their future plans — both upcoming improvements to products like Yahoo Mail, and an ambitious three-year strategy to revitalize the company.
Chief products officer Blake Irving acknowledged that the company has a challenge in “bringing cool back to Yahoo.” A key part of that strategy is moving faster. Yahoo will be improving its products in shorter cycles, rather than spending a … Continue Reading
Yahoo Mail lets you IM, but still closed — waiting for Orgoo
Yahoo executives spoke to journalists at the company’s Sunnyvale, Calif. headquarters this morning about their future plans — both upcoming improvements to products like Yahoo Mail, and an ambitious three-year strategy to revitalize the company.
Chief products officer Blake Irving acknowledged that the company has a challenge in “bringing cool back to Yahoo.” A key part of that strategy is moving faster. Yahoo will be improving its products in shorter cycles, rather than spending a … Continue Reading
