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When it comes to spreading popular content around the web, where you post matters. A study that link-shortening service Bit.ly released on its blog Tuesday shows that different kinds of links rise and fizzle at different speeds — depending on the platform they are posted on.

There were more than 225 billion spam emails sent per day in July, 2010, and today, that number has dropped to 40 billion.

A mock Google product announced on April Fool's Day promised to let users control GMail with their body. But a group of university students and hackers figured out how to really do it, using a hacked version of Microsoft's Kinect.

The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data breach after a computer hacker penetrated online marketer Epsilon.

President Barack Obama launched his bid for re-election in 2012 on Monday, capitalizing on better news on the economy and pushing ahead of Republicans who are struggling to find a candidate.

Google Inc on Monday accused the Chinese government of making it difficult for Gmail users to access the service in the country, the latest development in a rocky relationship between the two.

The tech giant's become a puzzle to regulators as it expands its ecosystem - a spread that includes e-mail, a digital bookstore and cell phone software.

China hijacked 15 per cent of the world's internet traffic for 18 minutes earlier this year, including highly sensitive email exchanges between senior US government and military figures, a report to the US Congress said.

Facebook unveiled its e-mail strategy today, with facebook.com addresses, a conversation history that includes e-mail, social messages and SMS, and a "social inbox" that prioritizes friends and friends of friends to keep spam out of the picture.

Project Phoenix isn’t a close sibling to the old AOL mail, more like a spiffed-up (very) distant cousin. The new system can aggregate other e-mail accounts (point one), allows for quick multimedia messaging (point two) and offers the chance to grab a user name that might actually be, well, your real name (point three).