Maily, the first email service designed for kids as young as 4 years old, introduces kids to the inbox in an interface free from complexity and unwanted messages. The application runs on the iPad and offers features like filtering, parental pre-screening of messages and parental cc'ing.

A few weeks prior to the November elections, Ohio State University students will receive an email from the university with their current address that they can print out and bring to a polling center on the university campus in order to vote. The system is designed to help students avoid the confusion about where they are registered if their campus address is different from the home address on their driver's license or another form of ID. University officials are hoping that the program encourages more students to vote while they are away at school. 

Launching this week is The Swizzle, a new application for managing the many daily deals hitting consumer inboxes. The service has a commision-based revenue model, earning a percentage on sales through new daily deal sites its users discover through the service. Keep Holdings operates The Swizzle, and is captained by fomer About.com CEO Scott Kurnit. 

A new study from mobile security software firm Good Technology has found that 50% of American respondents admit to routinely sending work email while in bed. 57% compulsively check email while on family outings. 

In June 2012, Google began warning some Gmail users that malicious state-sponsored activity could result in compromised email accounts. This week the attacks continued and Google has alerted tens of thousands of users. Cybersecurity experts suspect that the attacks are coming from a number of countries in the Middle East.

WhichTestWon.com and AWeber are collaborating on a new conference focusing exclusively on A/B Testing for email marketing. The Email Testing Workshop is a one-day event scheduled for November 1, 2012 in Philadelphia and will cover opt-in forms, newsletter templates and frequency, subject lines, triggered and transactional messages and landing pages.

A Google software engineer explains the math behind Gmail's spam filtering technology, and how Google accomplishes Machine Learning to get even better at spam filtering the more spam its users receive. 

Running enterprise email in the cloud - called Email as a Service or EaaS - is gaining momentum, particularly in government agencies owing to the administration's Cloud First policy. But migrating to a could-based email system is proving challenging, complicated by identity management systems, calendar, address book and other collaboration technologies, mobile and at-home email access for employees, as well as trade agreements and politics. 

ExactTarget has promoted Scott McCorkle from COO to President, Technology and Strategy. Replacing him as COO is Andy Kofoid, formerly EVP of Global Sales. McCorkle joined ExactTarget in 2005, while Kofoid came on board in 2010. 

Grexit today launched a collaboration tool to add shared email labels and folders for businesses using Google Apps. Data from the McKinsey Global Institute suggests that collaborative tools can reduce the time workers spend in email by 25-30%.