Google on Thursday unveiled what it called a new "conversation" service. Called Google Wave, it promises to blur the lines between IM, chat, and email.

Stewart Parnell, owner of the Peanut Corp. of America company at the heart of the salmonella outbreak and peanut butter product recall in the U.S., testified before Congress on Wednesday. Sort of.

The Hotmail developers have finally announced new updates to the worldwide users of this web mail service.

In a new article in the current issue of American Journal of Sociology authors Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian (both of the University of Chicago) study how we use emoticons, subject lines, and signatures to define how we want to be interpreted in email. The authors find that "a shift to email interaction requires a new set of interactional skills to be developed."

In yet another cosmetic change designed to pretty-up its Gmail web-based email client, Google announced Wednesday that it has added themes. Typical of a cloud-based service, it's rolling out to users gradually, so you may not see it --- a Themes tab in your Gmail settings --- just yet. They say it'll take a couple of days to hit all users.

GoDaddy.com Inc., the world’s largest domain registrar and largest hosting provider in North America, and Microsoft Corp. today announced that GoDaddy.com is delivering mobile and group e-mail plans with Microsoft Outlook, powered by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) improve worker productivity and communications regardless of physical location.

FBI agents executed a search warrant Sunday at the apartment of University of Tennessee student David Kernell (pictured). Kernell has been the subject of much Internet chatter in connection with the hacking of Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo! email account. Palin has been widely criticized for using the account for government business, against disclosure rules.

On Wednesday RIM unveiled the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone. Yes, your read that right; it’s the first BlackBerry to come in a flip version. No real surprise as this phone had been rumored for some time and was known popularly as the "Kickstart."

Lyris launches email marketing tool ListManager 10

Today's launch of Lyris ListManager 10 sees online marketing specialist Lyris UK (www.lyris.co.uk) continue to play a key role in the industry's drive to deliver timely, relevant and valuable email to the inbox and reduce unwanted messages. The new version of the company's flagship email marketing tool combines sophisticated technology with better availability of information to address critical deliverability issues.

Vodafone UK’s Critical Response Time Index

• 1 in 10 businesses now expect a 30 minute turnaround on new business emails
• The lack of mobile email access is costing British business at least £7.345 billion a year *
• One in three businesses still expect a response within two hours
• Average cost to a business of lost opportunities stands at £18,840 per business, per year
• Over a third (36%) of UK workers say lack of mobile email causes unnecessary stress and conflict in the workplace

Starting later today, Yahoo! will be opening up ymail.com and rocketmail.com email domains for users. Why Ymail and Rocketmail?

Ever get an email that has a signature line that says "Please consider the environment before printing this email?" Starting on May 16th, you can save a few trees by using allEtronic and rejecting paper receipts when you check out at big box stores like Best Buy and Target.