Samantha Geimer, the woman at the center of Roman Polanski's underage sex scandal from 1977, admits that she has been in touch with Polanski over email in recent years. Geimer revealed this fact in her new memoir, The Girl. Polanski first got in touch with Geimer a few years ago after Marina Zenovich's documentary on the trial came out. He apologized to her, writing, "I want you to know how sorry I am for having so affected your life."

The average worker spends 13 hours a week, or about 28% of their workweek, doing email, according to a new report from McKinsey Global Institute. "In the 90s, people actually looked forward to opening their email," Dmitri Leonov, VP of email management app SaneBox, told The Huffington Post. In response to this news, the blog put together a list of ways to avoid spending too much time on email such as not prioritizing email and realizing that not all emails are created equally.

Digital marketing services company ExactTarget, a salesforce.com company, has expanded its mobile marketing offerings. The company now supports the ability for marketers to send MMS campaigns, as well as location-based push notifications, and rich push notifications to apps on smartphones and tablets. These new features are part of ExactTarget's MobileConnect and MobilePush applications.

An alliance of digital civil liberties groups including Internet companies Reddit and DuckDuckGo are pushing for a new bill to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act a 1986 online privacy law that is widely considered out-of-date. The coalition relaunched VanishingRights.com, a website that supports the Email Privacy Act, a bill that would require law enforcement officials to obtain a warrant in order to access the content of a citizen's email or documents stored in the cloud.

Microsoft has introduced a new feature that lets Outlook.com users add a +whatever to their Outlook.com email address to create an email alias. The email will be delivered into the user's normal inbox. The feature, which is similar to an already existing Gmail feature, lets users create these aliases which can be used to opt-in to marketing lists sign up forms and filter these messages into a specific folder or automatically delete all of these emails.

ExactTarget's digital marketing platform is now integrated with Salesforce.com's Marketing Cloud, forming the ExactTarget Marketing Cloud. ET CEO revealed the news in a keynote at ExactTarget's Connections '13 conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on Tuesday. Salesforce acquired ExactTarget earlier this summer and the deal closed in July. The new integrated console combines ExactTarget's email, mobile, web, marketing automation, data and analytics, and content capabilities with Salesforce's social media offerings: Buddy Media, Radian6, and Social.com.

Lavabit founder Ladar Levison spoke at the Privacy Identity Innovation conference in Seattle Tuesday and revealed that ever since he quit email in August (when he was bullied into closing his encrypted email service), he has been using LinkedIn, Facebook, text and Silent Circle to communicate with people digitally. But as AllThings D report, Levison said, "Anything that I consider sensitive, I try to talk about it to people in person, with my cellphone off, in an area where I know that nobody's pointing a parabolic mic at me. If you're fighting the government that's what you need to do." …

ExactTarget kicked off its annual conference "Connections" on Tuesday and Technocrati identified Four trends resonated through the first day of the event. According to CEO Scott Dorsey, marketers have four core challenges and opportunities that they face this year -- they have an opportunity to lead; they should be a customer-centric company; they should embrace cloud, social and mobile computing; and customer communication should happen anywhere. ET used the conference to introduce a new tool called the Journey Builder Application which helps marketers map customer digital marketing journeys. In addition, the company revealed that the Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud will …

The Washington Post issued a memo to employees today asking them to drive safely and not to email or text and drive. "While we appreciate speedy replies to queries, they should not come at the expense of safety," Post senior editor Tracy Grant tells staffers in a memo. "Too often we hear from reporters and editors that they are communicating from the car. Beyond the obvious concerns of endangering ourselves and others, there are also potentially significant legal ramifications for both individuals and The Washington Post Company in the event of an accident."

Unibox, a new email client for iOS users, is now available for download as part of a public beta test. The app organizes emails based on a user's relationship to the sender in order to make the inbox experience more personal. The UI has two columns -- the left side displays contacts and the right side displays every message that has been received with a specific contact.