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Features

• Future world: Today, the Internet - tomorrow, the Internet of Things?

  Embedded in the heel of his shoe was an early example of the Internet of Things -- but Andrew Duncan didn't know it at the time.

• Who’s using Twitter? Some surprising answers

  Eight percent of online Americans may use Twitter, as the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported on Thursday. But does that mean your small business should use the service in its marketing and communications efforts?

• Did e-mail and the Internet kill the 9-5 workday?

  Have you checked your work e-mailtoday? If you're like most employees in the United States and United Kingdom, the answer is yes despite the fact that it is not only the weekend, but an extended holiday weekend for most workers in the US. A day off is becoming an increasingly foreign concept as workers stay connected virtually 24/7.

• Gmail wish list: five features we'd like to see

  In the early days, Gmail hooked us with its innovative features, like the way it threaded together e-mails under the same subject.

• Analysis: Is HTML e-mail dangerous for your PC, or just your eyeballs?

  Last week's online protest against Microsoft Outlook is turning out to be a tempest-in-a-Tweet.

• 'Utegate' another reason for CIOs to check their e-mail

  Security experts are warning that CIOs may need to revisit their e-mail security following the recent fracas around the ‘Utegate’ affair.

• Adventures in e-mail marketing

  A writer's group I belong to wants to put on a conference this summer. Since I've written about two of the leading e-mail marketing services, Constant Contact and VerticalResponse, I volunteered to manage the messaging process and send out the e-mails. It's been interesting, meaning there's both good and bad details to report, but mostly good in that the messaging part of my job was pretty easy. The non-technical parts got a bit wonky, however, and I have three lessons to pass on.

• Dr. Libshitz can't get an e-mail address

  The Internet is full of filth. From "barely legal babes" to barely avoidable male-enhancement spam, something risque seems to be lurking around every corner online.

• Seven ways to push mail to the iPhone -- without Exchange

  In Part 2 of my series on rolling out the iPhone as a business device, I talked about integration in an Exchange environment. Though the iPhone supports all common e-mail protocols, Exchange is the only business-oriented option for offering push notification of new messages as well as over-the-air updates to calendar and contact items. Sure, push notification and update is supported by Apple's MobileMe -- and push e-mail notification is supported for Yahoo Mail accounts. But neither of these would be considered viable options for most businesses.

• 16 e-mail and instant messaging boosters

  The Internet was built on a very simple idea: People should be able to communicate more easily with one another, using their computers. So it should be no surprise that communication -- particularly in the form of e-mail and instant messaging -- is still at the heart of why most people go online.