A BRITISH TEENAGER has been banned from ever entering the United States – because he sent an angry email to the White House. Luke Angel (17) wrote to Barack Obama expressing dissatisfaction with his government, but managed to include a barrage of foul and abusive language when doing so. Local police said his response was: “Oh dear, it was me.“
# email - Sunday 16 June, 2013
Mystery of the Donegal message in a bottle
Two Donegal men have discovered a rather unusual message in a bottle, which was found near a 600ft drop off a cliff.
# email - Wednesday 12 June, 2013
5 photos of Barack Obama reading your email
You really shouldn’t have written that.
# email - Saturday 8 June, 2013
Column: 9 email habits that could change your life
Emails are a handy form of quick communication – but also a source of stress if you’re not organised. If your inbox is giving you nightmares, Ciara Conlon has some tips to make your days a bit smoother.
# email - Sunday 26 May, 2013
10 of the weirdest pictures we’ve been sent by readers
Sometimes we are sent really useful news tips and pictures, other times we are sent weird sh*t like these.
# email - Friday 12 April, 2013
Google lets users decide what happens to their email after they die
Google is the first major company to let people decide what happens to emails, photographs, blogs and social networks if their account becomes inactive.
# email - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
Goodbye Hotmail, hello Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft thinks Outlook is better than Gmail, so it’s about to spend $30 million to send its message across the US.
# email - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
Conman convicted over inheritance email scheme
A number of victims in the UK, US, Germany and Australia were scammed out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
# email - Friday 30 November, 2012
Teens believe cyber bullying is worse than traditional bullying
Teens feel like it’s the worst kind because they “can’t escape it” and pictures and messages can be spread so quickly.
# email - Friday 19 October, 2012
Column: Is a technology overload making us less efficient at work?
Email, smartphones and tablets help us multi-task, writes Professor Gloria Mark, but can they also make us less productive?
# email - Saturday 22 September, 2012
Column: 9 things you can do today to simplify your life
Could your life be simpler? From friends to email, productivity coach Ciara Conlon offers advice on those complications.
# email - Thursday 12 July, 2012
Hackers post pilfered Yahoo! passwords
Nearly half a million passwords and email addresses from a Yahoo! server were posted online.
# email - Sunday 1 July, 2012
Free WiFi for Grafton Street ahead of wider roll-out
WiFi will be available in 20-minute slots free of charge on Dublin city centre street. Bitbuzz says it’s expanding service to Galway and Cork this year.
# email - Saturday 9 June, 2012
Explainer: what do this week’s password leaks mean for you?
What exactly does ‘hashed’ and ‘salted’ mean? And after breaches for LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm this week, how can you make your password stronger?
# email - Wednesday 16 May, 2012
Google animation shows what happens when you send an email
Ever wondered what happens to your email when it goes off into the ether?…
# email - Monday 7 May, 2012
Meet the only man in Ireland who loves getting scam emails
Illustrator Alan Dunne asks his friends to send him on their funniest spam scam emails – so that he can make wry and funny works of art from their stories.
# email - Saturday 14 April, 2012
Column: Kids are going to destroy the internet. Here’s how it’ll happen.
Think Silicon Valley will shape the future? You’re looking in the wrong place, writes tech entrepreneur Dylan Collins.
# email - Monday 20 February, 2012
Government ‘could save €10million’ by using webmail
Fine Gael Senator Catherine Noone said a cloud-based email system like Gmail would save money and increase flexibility.
# email - Sunday 29 January, 2012
Here’s what we all did on the internet last year
We gawked at 100 billion photos on Facebook, 1 trillion video playbacks on Youtube and got a LOT of email spam in 2011…
# email - Wednesday 28 December, 2011
New York Times accidentally sends email to over 8 million readers
The company has apologised after the email which was due to go to around 300 people instead went out to over 8.6 million people worldwide.
# email - Thursday 3 November, 2011
Gmail withdraws app from Apple store – just hours after launching
Google apologises to users but no word on when the app will be made available again.
# email - Monday 15 August, 2011
The Daily Fix: Monday
In your fix today: Dublin Fire Brigade faces a staff crisis, the regal origins of the Laois bog body, the girl who sleeps 23 hours a day, and what it’s like to see snow for the first time…
Students ’12 times more likely’ to communicate through Facebook than email
A survey commissioned by Blue Coat Systems says only 6 per cent of students would choose email as their first method of contact.
# email - Monday 4 July, 2011
Data watchdog received 25 election-related complaints
Over two dozen members of the public have made official complaints after politicians tried to access their personal information.
# email - Friday 1 July, 2011
Father of “ill-mannered” email bride hits back at “Miss Fancy Pants”
Upset father launches counter-attack on “snotty” mother-in-law.
# email - Thursday 30 June, 2011
Watch: How social media conquered the world – in four minutes
One in five couples meet online and the same number blame Facebook for their divorces, according to this new video on the power of social networking.
Bourne supreme? Mother-in-law’s savage email goes viral
Think you have a bad relationship with your in-laws? Then read what Carolyn Bourne sent her son’s bride…
# email - Sunday 24 April, 2011
20 handy Easter Eggs Apple hid in the iPhone
You might already have known about some of these features – but there’ll be some here that you never knew of.
# email - Monday 17 January, 2011
Golden Globe winner Colin Firth ‘might lose Oscar’ over claims George VI was anti-Semitic
The King’s Speech is being accused in email circulating among Academy members of “glossing over” British monarch’s attitude towards Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.
# email - Sunday 21 November, 2010
Google’s major security hole
The breach allowed the email address of any person signed into a Google account to be accessed.
# email - Friday 12 November, 2010
Three PwC male workers suspended over ‘hot mail’
As PwC ‘Mad Men’ style scandal goes global, a second accountancy firm – KPMG – is hit by email furore.
# email - Thursday 11 November, 2010
PWC partner “deeply regrets” Hot Mail scandal
A senior partner at the accountancy firm says the ‘top 10 office women’ email is “hugely disappointing” to his firm.
# email - Tuesday 14 September, 2010
# email - Tuesday 31 August, 2010
GOOGLE HAS ANNOUNCED that it is this week launching a new beta service within Gmail that will allow users to create a new ‘priority inbox’ that will allow them to ‘rank’ emails through three individual sections in the inbox. The service will separate ‘important and unread’ and ‘starred’ email and will be available to all users this week.
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