Many people are sending HTML e-mail for no obvious reason or benefit. HTML e-mail can be recognized by colored backgrounds or typefaces. It sometimes has designs or other decorations in the messages.

Editor’s note: This story has been changed since it was originally posted because several quoted comments were mistakenly attributed to Dave Greiner, head of the FixOutlook.org protest. The ...

Combine the features and formatting of HTML e-mail with the safety of plain-text messages by designating specific senders as safe. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor ...

Yahoo used its recent “Hack Day” to springboard its opening of substantial chunks of code to software developers, highlighted by the application programming interface (API) of Yahoo’s widely-used Web ...