Invisible single-pixel images (called Web bugs) can enable this kind of user e-mail tracking without alerting the naïve user because most people don’t examine the HTML code underlying received e-mail ...

The Twitter protest again Microsoft Outlook is losing steam, but the question remains: Is HTML e-mail dangerous or is Microsoft using security as a reason not to comply with Web standards? Last week’s ...

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 ...

Q: An editor of mine in Europe has sent me an updated version of my work. But the e-mail file has HTML in its name. How do I convert it to a Word document on my PC? Jeffery Wilson, Anchorage, Alaska A ...

Everyone knows BlackBerrys are da bomb when it comes to e-mail -- so why can't they handle something as simple as HTML-formatted messages? I'm not sure, but at least there's a third-party fix: BBSmart ...

Download a newsletter template and send it to a subset of your Outlook or Thunderbird contacts--without the messages getting caught in spam filters. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace ...

Probably a stupid question, but I created an html file that has about 8 images, that I could e-mail to family, but I can't figure out how to send it properly so that the images show up in the file.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--Yahoo is set to allow outsiders to create new services using the world's most popular consumer e-mail program, in the broadest move the Web has yet seen to enlist independent ...

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 ...