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With the stock market tumbling in what could be a significant downturn, companies will no doubt look for ways to cut costs and save cash.

Outsourcing infrastructure operations could be one way to do that, says Timothy Eades, chief executive of Everyone.net, which provides hosted archiving and synchronization services for small and medium-size businesses. Specifically, paying a monthly subscription for someone else to handle e-mail archiving and other necessary infrastructure operations rather than doing them in-house could be a solution, he argues.

In preparation for the downturn companies will likely restructure their capital expenditures and migrate more to software-as-a-service … Read more

The other day, a friend asked if I how he could spiff up the weekly e-mail he sends to the members of his bowling team. I told him the simplest way was to download an HTML newsletter template he could customize and then send from Outlook or any other e-mail program.

Start by locating and downloading a newsletter template. You'll find a bunch of free ones at Templates Box. After you download the template you like, open it in an HTML editor. My favorite is the Composer component of the Mozilla Foundation's free SeaMonkey Web suite.

You could … Read more

How do you know for sure that your e-mail is safe from interception? You don't. Unless you digitally sign and encrypt it with a strong, safe key, that is.

In this Insider Secrets video, CNET Editor Tom Merritt shows you how to install and use an open-source privacy tool that does both, for fee.

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Some of the tweaks that arrived with the launch of Gmail Labs are fairly silly (Mail Goggles and Old Snakey spring to mind), but a new option that arrived Thursday makes it increasingly apparent that Google is doing something right with the e-mail service.

The company launched Advanced IMAP Controls in Gmail Labs, a feature that lets users fine-tune the behavior of the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) technology that outside e-mail services or software can use to access Gmail accounts.

For example, you can limit which of your mail labels are exposed as folders to outside e-mail clients to … Read more

Appealing to organizations burdened by federal rules requiring electronic message retention, Google is offering hosted e-mail archiving for up to 10 years for $45 per user per year. The service works with a company's existing e-mail infrastructure and has no storage limit.

That's a deal compared to the estimated $200 per user per year it can cost a company to archive e-mail on-site over seven years, Bill Kee of product marketing wrote in an entry Wednesday on the Official Google Enterprise blog.

The latest archiving offering is part of Google Message Discovery, which also includes spam and virus … Read more

UPDATED: Corrected Opera's country of origin.

E-mail and RSS feed improvements top the list of changes for Opera 9.60, moved out of beta today for Windows and Mac. As noted when the 9.60 beta came out last month, this version of the free browser offers up a multifaceted ''low-bandwidth mode'' for Opera Mail and tweaks to the RSS reader.

The feed preview rolls into Opera's RSS management a standalone RSS app feature so that users can preview feeds before subscribing to them. The low bandwidth option for Opera Mail, also called M2, does different things for … Read more

My colleague Peter Butler recently wrote about Everything, a small, ancient-looking app that searches your files and folders with real-time results. He asked what other tiny but mighty apps you use day-to-day, and two of you responded with Tidy Mail and StripMail, both petite programs that are used to erase funky formatting and characters from e-mail messages, mostly forwarded.

Surely these stand-alone desktop applications are far too pass? to remain useful? Yes and no. StripMail and Tidy Mail are old-school, but the freeware cleanup apps may still come in handy if you're the type who can't stand to … Read more

Many people are wondering what to do now that their bank has been acquired in the wake of the lending crisis. Well, whatever you do, don't click on links in e-mails purportedly sent by your bank.

Security firm SonicWall said Thursday that it has been seeing e-mails that attempt to lure people to fake bank Web sites, where they are asked to re-verify their personal and bank information as part of a merger.

In one example that targets people affected by the Chase acquisition of Washington Mutual, the e-mail asks recipients to click on a link and confirm their … Read more

Even before someone hacked Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account I had been wondering whatever happened to encryption.

Encryption -- the science of rendering plain text unreadable by anyone but the intended reader -- made a splash in the mid-1990s. At the time the U.S. government was investigating human rights activist Phil Zimmermann for allegedly violating the Arms Export Control Act by distributing his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) e-mail encryption software. The government eventually relaxed the restrictions and PGP was no longer programa non grata.

Nearly a decade has passed and it struck me recently that encryption still hasn'… Read more