There is a phishing email message going around that claims to be from Walmart. The spammers made a pretty major mistake though, as they spelled the company's name wrong, spelling it "Wallmart," instead of 'Walmart.' The email contains links to malicious sites which should not be clicked on. If you receive this email, delete it or report it as spam.

Digital marketing services company Silverpop has released a new tool that aims to make real-time personalized communications based on behvaioral data possible. The new offering, which is called "Universal Behaviors," stores and processes data as individual exchanges rather than in volumes of interactions. The idea is that marketers can use this buyer behavior data to build personalized campaigns in real time.

Google has updated its Google Wallet service and added a feature that lets users send money to and from Google Wallet via email. Users can send money to people with or without a Gmail account. Google also released new APIs for developers to make buying stuff within Android apps and on the Web easier for consumers using the Google Wallet.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said that he supports changes to email privacy regulations that would require the government to get a warrant based on probable cause in order to read a citizen's email. Holder does support the idea that law enforcement should be able to obtain content directly from service providers if they have the right paperwork in place. As ZDNet reports, Holder said that there were "very limited circumstances" in which there should be exemptions.

Google thas updated Gmail with a new feature that makes it more interactive. Google will now show action buttons next to emails in a user's inbox that allowing them to take action before the even open the message. This feature only works in emails in which the developer has enabled this feature.

While all of the publishers involved in an eBook pricing antitrust case have settled with the Department of Justice (DOJ), Apple refuses to settle the case and continues to fight. Yesterday, the DOJ introduced an email exchange between Apple's founder Steve Jobs and News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch (News Corp. owns HarperCollins, one of the publishers involved in the suit), as evidence of price fixing. In the email, Jobs wrote to Murdoch that he could continue to have Amazon price eBooks at $9.99 or "throw in with Apple and see if we can all make a go of this to create …

ZDNet columnist David Gewirtz understands the power of the email newsletter to reach subscribers, but doesn't think working with email vendors is worth it. In a blog post on the site, he recounts the story of wanting to move his email newsletter program from an in-house system to a vendor. The move, he explained, increased their spam complaints and lost them a lot of subscribers. Frustrated he tried two more vendors before returning to ZDNet's own in-house mailing system.

Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh has created a personal system to deal with inbox overload. Instead of getting swallowed up in email messages, he is fighting back with a system that is centered on the idea, "Make yesterday's inbox today's to-do list." In a post on LinkedIn, he explained his system which involves responding to yesterday's email today (unless it just can't wait), and setting time to respond to emails that will take more than ten minutes to write in the same way you would set a meeting.

Ryan Christopher Fogle -- the junior diplomat from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow that stands accused by the KGB of trying to recruit a Russian spy for the CIA -- apparently uses Gmail. He was allegedly caught with a letter that revealed one of the CIA's e-mail addresses: unbacggdA@gmail.com. The letter apparently encouraged the would-be spy to create a new Gmail account in a public place on a shared computer without any personally identifiable information exposed, and then email the alleged CIA Gmail address.

Google has combined the storage limits for Gmail and Google Drive giving users 15GB of free storage across both products. This means that instead of being limited to 10GB of free space in Gmail and 5GB in Google Drive, Google users can split the free space across both depending on how they use these services. "For example, maybe you're a heavy Gmail user but light on photos, or perhaps you were bumping up against your Drive storage limit but were only using 2GB in Gmail. Now it doesn't matter, because you can use your storage the way you want," explained …