Kicked off with a press conference in New York, Yahoo's Flickr photo service is shedding a dated look comprised mostly of large swaths of white space and laughably tiny thumbnail images. In its place are large high-res photos, a sleek interface designed to work on both web and mobile, and the real draw - a free Terabyte of storage space ...

Mrs. Musk. (Photo: Flickr) Little did you know, but probable Hotmail user Jane Fonda is actually a famous Hollywood matchmaker. Yes, the Patti Stanger for the one percent is setting up coltish blonde actress Cameron Diaz on a date because the forgotten '90s icon wants a millionaire boyfriend–something Mrs. Fonda knows a thing or two about. Our last bastion for serious journalism, ...

Guest author Jeremy LaTrasse is the CEO and co-founder of Message Bus, and was a co-founder of Twitter. 30 years ago a Digital Equipment Corporation rep sent the first piece of spam. In 2013, the problem of spam has become an epidemic with severe if often unseen consequences. We now live in a world filled with digital messaging abuse; according ...

We've previously touched on Microsoft's new email service, Outlook.com. The service has replaced Hotmail and offers advanced functionality along with a refreshed user interface to better match Windows 8 and other products. As well as checking through email, users can also chat with Facebook and Skype contacts in the sidebar. Microsoft has now implemented support for Google Talk.  Users will ...

Microsoft is upgrading its new Outlook.com webmail service so that its users can communicate with Gmail users via instant messaging. Outlook.com, which replaced Hotmail and offers a similar feature for chatting with people on Facebook and Skype, will roll out this Gmail capability over the next few days to its 400 million users worldwide, according to Microsoft.