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 ...

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 ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) document, RFC 3696, “Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names” by John Klensin, gives several valid e-mail addresses that are rejected ...

E-mail is old and complex. It’s the oldest still-recognizable component of the Internet, with its modern incarnation having coalesced out of several different decades-old messaging technologies ...