In the early 1990s when e-mail was becoming a transformative complementary utility of the World Wide Web, before social networks, news blogs, daily deals and automated notifications bombarded the ...

(MoneyWatch) There are a million solutions to e-mail overload out there -- everything from mail-client alternatives to Outlook plug-ins to productivity strategies like Inbox Zero and Getting Things ...

Recently I read about a proposal for eliminating e-mail. After all, e-mail consumes time, adds extra pressure to an already stressful workplace, fragments attention, and feels like a never-ending ...

Since Gmail announced a new inbox configuration, which automatically sorts commercial e-mails into a separate "promotions" tab, businesses have been questioning what to do. Debates about best ...

While it may not be overly evident, e-mail has undergone a drastic change over the past several years. Once a service for simply sending and receiving personal correspondence, today's inboxes are ...

I love e-mail. I love its efficiency, its clarity and the fact that it creates a detailed, searchable record. E-mail also makes me a little nuts. If I’m away from it for a couple of hours, messages ...

How many messages are in your e-mail inbox? I’m betting it’s north of 300. We all get behind sometimes, and just before the new year is a great time to get it all under control, so you can start fresh ...

It happened with cigarettes. It happened with red meat. And carbs. And SUVs. And now it’s happening with e-mail. The preferred communication channel of millions of Americans is no longer cool.

For a messaging medium that is reportedly dead, there sure is a lot of interest in e-mail these days. Why? E-mail is the stickiest of applications. For Web sites like AOL and Yahoo, e-mail alone can ...