E-mail, in full electronic mail, messages transmitted and received by digital computers through a network.
One, called Lookout, automatically reads electronic mail messages and attempts to schedule requests for appointments and meetings.
The breach involved sending an electronic mail message -- with an attached program file -- to a customer service representative or other America Online employee who has access to customer information.
To this day, Port 99 remains set aside for Mr. Goodfellow's original brainstorm: pushing an electronic mail message to a wireless pager.
Geoff Goodfellow is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who came up with an idea of sending electronic mail messages wirelessly to a portable device – like a BlackBerry.
One development of the concept of SDI in the electronic environment is a computer program that scans computer bulletin boards, electronic mail messages, and similar networked information resources and selects items that meet a user profile.
A high-school dropout, Mr. Goodfellow had his light-bulb moment in 1982, when he came up with the idea of sending electronic mail messages wirelessly to a portable device -- like a BlackBerry.
In an electronic mail message sent to Microsoft employees on Friday, the Microsoft chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, wrote, "These appointments underscore Microsoft's commitment to our technical people as key partners in the leadership of the company".
Mr. Farbrother's own electronic mail messages to Mr. Gore and Ms. Karmack show that he was keenly aware of the link as he criticized the agency for falling down on the job of producing "a million new citizens before election day".
The technology could be applied beyond email to include any electronic document, "such as a text document, spreadsheet, presentation, or electronic mail message," according to the patent brief.
