Harvard University will soon join some of its peers in offering permanent Web-based e-mail accounts to alumni. Harvard officials say the new Web-mail accounts will help the university stay in touch ...

Want to switch over to Gmail with all your old e-mail and contacts from a previous Web mail provider? We show you how with this simple how-to guide. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers ...

These days, Web-based e-mail services are like opinions — they’re everywhere. Almost every other Web site seems to offer one. It’s easy to see why Web mail has become so popular, even with users who ...

Question: I have several Web mail accounts. But I'm tired of visiting all those sites. I'd like to have all of them download messages to my computer. What will I need to make this happen? Answer: Your ...

Mr. POGUE: Well, what's interesting is that these are all Web mail accounts. People may have hard of Yahoo! and Hotmail where you can sign up and have an e-mail address that you can check from any ...

For Mac users, the free ride is officially over. The end came this past summer, when Apple decided to improve iTools, its landmark suite of free, integrated Web services. The new suite, named .Mac ...

Students once viewed college e-mail accounts as a perk of campus life. Now some see the accounts as a hassle — another digital mailbox they have to check. After all, today’s students already have well ...

Search engine company AltaVista Co. is refocusing on its core search business and will end its free AltaVista.com e-mail account service for about 200,000 U.S. customers on March 31. In an ...

America Online shuttered a security hole in its Web e-mail service on Wednesday after being tipped off to the flaw, but not before "hundreds" of accounts had been compromised. Few details of the ...