While the U.S. has upset officials all over the world for spying on their emails and phone conversations, Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh is not concerned. The 81-year-old prime minister revealed this week that he does not own a mobile phone or use personal email. Therefore his office has "no cause for concern" about new US hacking revelations.

The New York Times has updated its style guide and has dropped the hyphen from the word "email." The publication will now spell the word "email" instead of "e-mail" as it had done before. The Atlantic Wire rounded up the various changes to the style guide that were tweeted by various Times writers and editors. The Time has also combined the two words "Web site" into "website," which is no longer capitalized.

The click rate for world-wide email marketing messages averaged 18.6% in 2013, according to a new study by email marketing services firm GetResponse. According to the report, marketers sent less emails on Fridays, but these emails tended to have higher open rates than other days of the week. According to the report, Fridays accounted for just 14.9% of emails sent, but the open rate was 19.6% on Fridays.

Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson is raising a stir in the political world after his campaign sent an email that compared the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Klan. The image showed the image of a cross on fire and used the cross as a 't' to tell the message. The letters "ea Party" followed. The caption read: "Now You Know What the 'T' Stands For."

Unibox, a Mac email client that launched in public beta back in September, is now available as a download in the Mac App Store. The app lets consumers personalize their email inbox by dividing their inbox into an organizational system that groups emails by contacts. The interface has two panes, one side includes a contact list and the other side of list of all of the messages that the user has exchanged with that particular sender.

Sixty-five percent of email recipients check out marketing messages in the afternoon or during the evening, yet marketers are more likely to send emails first thing in the morning, according to a new report by Retention Science. The report analyzed 100 million online transactions and found that 38 percent of email conversions happen during the afternoon and 27 percent take place at night. While most emails go out during the morning, according to the report, only 28.5 percent of email conversions happen in the morning.

Conservative mega donor is the man behind an email list in which Republicans are harassed for not being conservative enough. In an interview with The National Review, Baer explained that he sends insulting emails to groups of Republicans that he doesn't like personally. "The subject of one Baer thread is 'Values Voters Vaginitis'" the National Review explains, "a reference to accusing social conservatives of being prostitutes to the GOP."

Boston area startup Cannonball has released a new iPad app for organizing emails which is designed to make email on tablets more fun and at the same time more productive. The app lets users view emails in columns grouping recent messages by sender and adding thumbnail images to help make them more visually appealing.

LinkedIn has incorporated the email plugin company Rapportive that it acquired last year. The business social networking site has introduced a new feature to its app called LinkedIn Intro that gives LinkedIn users background information on people that they are emailing through LinkedIn. The tool pulls data from social networks and other sources to create on-the-fly profiles of the people that a user emails. Dat includes things like a full professional history, schooling and location.

An email has been going around purporting to be from Warren Buffet, but it is a hoax. The email includes the headlines "Pass It Forward!!"or "Winds of Change" and claims to be from Buffet, and the copy encourages readers to share. This email did not come from Buffet. He wouldn't have misspelled his own last name, as this email does. "He would never send out a chain email," Debbie Bosanek, Buffett's personal assistant at Berkshire Hathaway, told Cleveland.com. "He doesn't have his own email account."