From 0 To 1 Million: How Mailbox Planned For Scale
Every startup dreams of nabbing millions of users overnight. But few companies can claim to actually have done it, with infrastructure…
Articles tagged "email"
Wed, 5 June 2013
Fixing Email: New Boxer iOS Email App Tosses In The Kitchen Sink
Boxer, the latest iPhone app trying to make mobile email more useful, offers a laundry list of helpful features.
Mon, 27 May 2013
OMG: My Teenage Son Does Not Know How To Mail A Letter
The most connected, tech-savvy generation in history does not know how to mail a letter.
Thu, 23 May 2013
Mailbox Takes Its Email App To iPad, With Android Waiting In The Wings
ReadWrite chats with founder Gentry Underwood on the future of app design.
Thu, 16 May 2013
How To Make The World Safer For Email - It's All About Trust
Despite the email industry's best efforts, fighting spam still requires the cooperation of the people and organizations who send and receive…
Mon, 15 April 2013
30 Days With Inbox Zero: Cleaning Out Messages... And Stress
Join one man's epic 30-day quest for an email Inbox that's empty and stays empty - the elusive Inbox Zero.
Mon, 25 March 2013
My Time With Mailbox: 1M Users, But Still Not Perfect
Mailbox has hit one million users following Dropbox acquisition, but my initial experience with the app shows it still has room for…
Thu, 21 March 2013
Boxed In: The Tech Industry’s Fascination With Corrugated Cardboard
Why do so many tech companies have so much trouble thinking outside the "box?"
Thu, 28 February 2013
Hacked! Did The Chinese Get Their Revenge?
There's no way to tell if the dirty deed was done by the Chinese, or even whether it was in retaliation for the articles. But the timing…
Wed, 27 February 2013
Not So Fast: No, Apple Isn't Censoring Your Dirty Emails
Reports about Apple censoring profane iCloud emails appear to be false. Trust me, I just email myself some truly horrendous things to test…
Mon, 25 February 2013
Outbox Rolls Out In San Francisco: Plans To Bring Snail Mail Into The Digital Age
Outbox co-founders Will Davis and Evan Baehr want to change the way you receive snail mail - and hope to disrupt the entire USPS in the…
Tue, 19 February 2013
Hotmail Users Are Getting Moved To Outlook.com, Like It or Not
The hundreds of millions of users who use Hotmail will be migrated over to Outlook.com by this summer, Microsoft said Tuesday. Pity the…
Wed, 6 February 2013
Incoming! Microsoft Launching Another Pathetic Smear Campaign Against Google
Microsoft is back harping on Gmail, starting a national campaign to scare people about privacy.
Wed, 16 January 2013
The Digital Purge: How (And Why) To Nuke Your Email Inbox
Even if you've been fairly organized about email - setting up folders or tags, utilizing stars and color-coding - chances are your inbox has…
Mon, 7 January 2013
Innovating The Email Inbox - Without Deleting All
The tools many people use to manage the email tsunami were created in pre-historic times.
Mon, 10 December 2012
Alert! Be on Your Guard Against Microsoft Word Worms in Your Email
Until Microsoft discloses - and patches - a new Word vulnerability on Tuesday, anyone using Microsoft's Outlook email program and its Word…
Tue, 20 November 2012
How To Keep Marketing Emails From Drowning Your Inbox
A new service claims to solve inbox overload caused by too many marketing email subscriptions.
Wed, 14 November 2012
How To Hide Your Email: What Petraeus Did & What He Should Have Done
You'd think that being the head of the CIA would give you all the ins-and-outs and James Bond tools to avoid being hacked. Or to conceal…
Tue, 13 November 2012
Groupon Stock Goes On Fire Sale, But What Went So Wrong?
Groupon has a bad day. And then another one, and another one...
Fri, 26 October 2012
ReadWrite Recommends: The Best App For Dealing With Gmail Overload
We set out to find the best way to trim all the excess info from our email diet. So-called email bacon, the newsletters we subscribe to…
