Mozilla Updates Thunderbird E-Mail Client

April 20, 2007

Mozilla Updates Thunderbird E-Mail ClientPC World – Apr 20, 2007

Mozilla Corp. unveiled the final version of its open-source Thunderbird 2 e-mail client on Thursday, improving how users can organize and label their messages.

Users can now add customized tags to messages, a feature that has proven popular with other blog and photo-sharing sites, Mozilla said. The tagging function replaces static labels that users can assign to messages in older versions of the client. Also new is a feature to sort through e-mail by history, similar to what a user can do in a Web browser.

Mozilla releases Thunderbird 2iT News, Australia – Apr 20, 2007

A new find-as-you-type feature in the free e-mail client winnows displayed messages on the fly, making searches faster.

Mozilla Corporation released Thunderbird 2, its free, open source e-mail client for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems in 30 languages.

The new release boasts improved security and a variety of new features. Chief among them is message tagging, the ability to label and categorise e-mail for easier searching and organisation. In addition to default tags, users can create their own


Google takes the pun out of shoppingZDNet – Apr 19, 2007

Acknowledging that it's better to be clear than clever, Google is rebranding "Froogle" as "Google Product Search" and simplifying the interface to match the main search site, a top executive said on Wednesday.

Froogle was launched in late 2002 when it was trendy for portals to have vertical sites dedicated to specific industries or areas. But the site didn't grow fast, and Google removed the link to the site from its main page last year.


Goodbye Froogle
Michael Arrington , Techcruch.com – Apr 19, 2007

Froogle has been renamed “Google Product Search” says Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of Search & User Experience. It also sports a redesign, and product results are now returned at the top of normal Google search results at appropriate times.

Sender ID Framework Reaches Tipping PointPR Newswire (press release), NY – Apr 19, 2007

Today, at the third annual Authentication and Online Trust Summit, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) published results culminating from a two-year-long study on the effectiveness of Sender ID Framework e-mail authentication in helping counter deceptive e-mail. With Windows Live(TM) Hotmail(R) alone detecting over 3.8 billion deceptive messages daily, Sender ID is helping provide real results as a cost-effective solution. Sender ID has enjoyed a threefold increase in adoption, accelerating to 8 million domains worldwide in just under a year.* This technology is helping to realize the promise established by the industry and government agencies to improve trust and confidence in e-mail communications for consumers and marketers alike.


Large Enterprises Still Serving up SpamPC World - 3 hours ago

Well-known enterprise companies are still having their IT systems hijacked by spammers despite investing in many different types of technologies aimed at stopping the problem.

Last week, researchers at network security company Support Intelligence isolated an IP address within insurance giant Aflac that was being used by spammers to distribute mass amounts of e-mail messages, most of which were related to erectile dysfunction.

Microsoft Live Spaces Rolls Out New Features
Michael Arrington , Techcrunch.com – Apr 20, 2007

Microsoft Live Spaces (rebranded last summer from MSN Spaces) is rolling out some new features this morning and announcing recent usage updates. The enhancements are aimed at making Live Spaces more of a social network and less of a simple blogging/home page service. The changes should be live at 6 am PST.


Google Acquires Marratech; Gets Into WebEx Territory
Michael Arrington , Techcrunch.com – Apr 20, 2007

After reporting a monster fiscal quarter (the company has close to $12 billion in cash sitting around now and has hired nearly 2,000 new employees this year), Google made a quiet announcement on its corporate blog tonight - they’ve acquired Swedish startup Marratech for an undisclosed price.