Like many of us, [Zak Kemble] has an indeterminate number of tiny packages coming his way from all over the globe at any given time. Unfortunately, the somewhat unpredictable nature of the postal ...

When Apple introduced ActiveSync and Push email support for iPhone email, there were two reactions: 1) "Yay!" and 2) "What's this going to mean for battery life?" Any sort of "push" technology will ...

[Felix Rusu’s] mailbox is on the other side of the street and he’s got a pretty big front yard. This means checking for mail is not just a pop your head out of the door type of activity. This becomes ...

If you live in a place where your mailbox is a far away from your front door (or you're just really lazy and don't want to go check the front door), then you know checking the mail can be a pain. To ...

The reams and reams of spam found with every check of our inboxes here at Engadget HQ have quashed the surge of emotions we used to experience when that new-mail notifier started blinking. So, we went ...

We get push notifications for pretty much anything nowadays, but if you often forget to check your snail mail, Make Magazine shows us how to get push notifications from it using an Arduino and a ...

I was reading my unread tweets this morning when my friend Francesco Mugnai (@francescomugnai) tweeted this ” RT @bartelme: A nice way to get email notifications in ...

Is Meebo moving into email? The web-based chat service already centralizes instant messages from AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk, Facebook, MySpace, and more. Folding in emails from different accounts ...

If you are a Gmail user and you have a Mac, you probably already know how many Gmail notifier applications are available. I don’t even know, maybe more than 20? Not to talk about custom solutions made ...