Back in 2004 when Google went public, Microsoft felt the sting of a younger competitor. Now Google itself is feeling that sting, facing competition from Facebook. Among the social network’s efforts to lure users from Google, Facebook is now pushing it’s @facebook.com email platform (a major play against Gmail, if you ask me). I noticed today, a quietly rolled out Facebook feature which lets Facebook users forward their Facebook messages. You can forward those messages to other Facebook users, but more importantly, you can forward them to any outside email address. And who is the return address? Your @facbook.com default email, of course. 

Tech pundits proclaim the ‘death of email’ as email usage continues to decline. Facebook changes email on timelines. Does it want to be your email provider too?

It seems like Google has got just so much to offer that hardly a day goes by when the company doesn’t roll out something new.

In the last few weeks in particular, Google has been offering so much,

Brace yourself for a new look; Gmail changes are ahead!

Everyone knows that Google is always up to something…this time the tech team is giving their dedicated e-mail product; Gmail, a redesign.  They’ve been testing out the new design by giving users the ‘option’ to try the new look.

Ever get stuck on a super annoying reply-all thread?  Well, it happens to me all the time. Thanks to Outlook 2010′s latest feature: ‘Ignore,’ I automatically move all those super annoying replies straight to trash.