I had a thread a couple weeks back about a problem with Mail.app not remembering my ISP (Comcast) passwords, and constantly prompting me. Well, I did get THAT resolved, mostly, though at least once a ...

One of the handiest “set-it-and-forget-it” tools I have at my disposal is the automated address book updater from Evercontact (previously WriteThatName). The subscription-based service automatically ...

The mundane Address Book was big news this week due to the privacy fiasco, but here’s a post about an impressive address book app with a different approach to privacy. Cobook is a Mac contact ...

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of "Playing the Edge." Apply to speak here and learn more about ...

Everyone’s familiar with the contact exchange drill — we know it all too well. You meet, you trade numbers or names, you look new friends up on Facebook or Twitter, or get an email address if it’s a ...

Over the course of the past week, a firestorm has erupted in the world of iOS apps, thanks to the discovery that Path was uploading data from your iPhone’s address book without asking for explicit ...

Is there some sort of performance overhead involved in using HTTPS (sorry, not my field)? I noticed the the other day that an online data service we use sends our queries back to the databse via HTTP ...