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• Yahoo Mail site lets visitors visualize global email flow

  Yahoo plans to open a site that lets people see on an interactive world map the volume of e-mail that the company's Mail service is processing.

• Gmail threatens Microsoft in enterprises: Gartner

  Google's share of the enterprise email market currently "hovers" at around 1 per cent, but it will reach 10 per cent within a few years, research firm Gartner predicts.

• GlobalSign plans to reopen Tuesday despite web server hack

  GlobalSign expects to bring its certificate-issuing systems back online on Monday, and resume business Tuesday, it said over the weekend. The U.S. certificate authority (CA) stopped issuing new SSL certificates last Tuesday in order to audit its security, after being named as a target by the hacker who claimed to have attacked Dutch CA DigiNotar.

• Microsoft to overhaul Hotmail

  Microsoft will unveil next month a major revamping of its Hotmail webmail service, with upgrades across the board, including in areas like spam, security and performance.

• Gaining Postini features is a boost for Google Apps

  Google Apps will become a more secure and easier-to-manage collaboration and communication suite now that Google has started integrating e-mail security features into it from its Postini suite.

• NBA star Wade goes after alleged Texas hackers

  His Miami Heat team lost the NBA finals to the Dallas Mavericks last month and now Dwyane Wade is headed back to a Texas court, but not to play basketball.

• Google building Postini features into Apps

  Google has started to move e-mail security features from its Postini service directly into its Google Apps collaboration and communication suite.

• Gmail to display context data about contacts in inbox

  Google will roll out over the next two weeks an interface module for Gmail that displays contextual information about people involved in a message's thread.

• Yahoo makes new mail available to all users

  Yahoo is rolling out the newest version of its e-mail service and inviting all of its 284 million users to upgrade.

• Twitter users track power outages in India

  Electric power cuts in India are frequent and all over the country. But information on the extent of the problem has been largely anecdotal.

• Malaysia to open e-mail accounts for every adult by 2015

  Malaysia plans to offer every adult in the country a free Web-based e-mail account to ensure that tax returns, court documents and other official notices reach the population of 28.3 million.

• Google uses Gmail for April Fools' Day prank

  Have you started looking forward to controlling your Google Gmail account with body movements?

• China's recent Web clampdown a blow to human rights

  China's latest efforts at tightening its control over the Internet -- including the blocking of Gmail and Web software that can bypass the censorship -- have hampered the work of human rights activists, say groups based in the U.S.

• Google: Gmail blocking designed by Chinese government

  China is blocking Gmail in the country with methods that make it look as if the access problems lie with Google, said the search engine giant on Monday.

• Gmail disruption in China could signal tighter control

  Chinese Internet users have reported greater difficulty accessing Gmail in recent weeks, prompting speculation that the Chinese government is again stepping up its efforts to control the flow of information on the Web.