President Obama has established a new group to review the NSA's surveillance practices and determine if these agencies are overstepping their authority by tracking the emails and phone calls of U.S. citizens. "Technological advances have brought with them both great opportunities and significant risks for our Intelligence Community," the president said in a memorandum. "I believe it is important to take stock of how these technological advances alter the environment in which we conduct our intelligence mission."

New York State and Microsoft have forged an agreement under which the multiple email platforms used by various state agencies will be merged into one by the end of this year. The goal of the partnership is to streamline the email communications of all state employees, which are currently operating from 27 different email systems. Once the integration is complete, all New York state agencies will be using Microsoft 365, which includes a cloud function. "Transforming the State's IT infrastructure and sourcing is critical to operating an efficient government that provides accurate and timely services to New Yorkers," stated Governor …

Microsoft's Exchange Server platform owns 78 percent market share of enterprise email solutions in India, according to research firm Ascentius. According to Microsoft's calculations, this makes Microsoft the largest on-premise business email provider in India. In addition, Microsoft's Office 365, a cloud-based email collaboration tool has 70 percent market share in the consumer space in India. The report also revealed that total revenue for both on-premise, hosted and cloud-based email and collaboration platform will grow to $111 million by 2015 in India.

Seventy-five percent of consumers said that they are "highly likely" to delete emails that don't render on their smartphone, according to new research from email marketing services firm Constant Contact and Chadwick Martin Bailey. This is a big factor, as the report found that 80% of consumers said it is "extremely important" to be able to read emails on mobile devices. The report also revealed that 88% of 18-30 year-olds open email via mobile, with 50% saying that a smartphone is their "primary" email device. The report also found that 85% of those aged 30-39 read emails on mobile, with …

Craigslist can be a great resource for apartment hunters or secondhand furniture seekers, but it can also be time consuming to sift through thousands of unwanted items to find the only to find out that the item has already been sold. NotiCraig is a new tool to help Craigslist shoppers get a head start on other shoppers and avoid scrolling through page after page of listings. The tool lets users craft their own Craigslist searches and get an email whenever an item that fits into that search pops up on the site.

Heather Champ, the co-founder of JPG Magazine and the director of community at Flickr, has launched a new project called "Favorites," a weekly email newsletter dedicated to photography. The newsletter is called Favorites. The newsletter will feature a curated set of subscriber-submitted photos that will be sent out once a week. The first newsletter went out last Sunday.

Freedom Hosting (FH), the largest hosting company on the anonymous Tor network, was hacked into and initial research points to the FBI as responsible for the attack. The attack was revealed on August 5th, when the service discovered malicious software in the form of a Java Script attack in multiple websites hosted by the anonymous network. The attack exploits vulnerabilities within the Firefox 17 web browser, included in older versions of the Tor Browser Bundle (TBB), which lets users browse the Internet anonymously. The TOR Anonymity project, announced the news on its website, "An attack that exploits Firefox vulnerability in …

There are many apps that are designed to help consumers manage their inboxes, but Birdseye Mail, a new iPad app from De-De Group, lets users organize their email in a visual way. The app separates emails into folders which are presented to users in rich media graphic which makes it easy to read and sort through. The app pulls the contents of marketing emails and pulls the images and a bit of text and presents them in a Flipboard-esque magazine.

Kim Dotcom's file-sharing service Mega is working on a new email service that gives users the ability to send encrypted messages and have them hosted through the cloud storage services on servers outside of the U.S. If it works correctly, users would be able to keep their email messages hidden the NSA. The news comes just a week after news that similar private email clients Lavabit and Silent Circle, have shut down their services after pressure from the U.S. government.

When consumers get mad about a bad experience with a brand, they don't all take to Twitter to rant. The latest trend is "email bombing," or directly emailing the executives of companies in order to get a response. And the executives are listening. An executive at Staples restocked its stores after a customer complained directly about how the display items never seemed to be in stock. Red Roof President Andrew Alexander says that he reads every customer email and often shares the feedback at his weekly meetings. The hotel has done improvements based on this feedback. But reading these emails can …