The National Payment Corporation of India, an organization that manages retail financial transactions and a network of ATMs, is hoping to return email data into its platform in order to put a stop to unauthorized access to private information. The agency is hoping to move away from the cloud-computing model which they adopted last year through a partnership with Microsoft. Under the cloud-computing model, emails are stored in data centres based in Singapore. The company's chief technology officer N Rajendran said that this approach raised data security and privacy issues. "With the increase in the number of people accessing email …

Britain's National Crime Agency has warned of a massive spam attack which is targetting tens of millions of British consumers with a virus that locks a user's computer demanding a GBP500 ransom. The ransomware virus is specifically targeting employees of small-to-medium sized businesses. It comes in the form of an email alert about suspicious payments or invoices. If a user opens the email, the virus locks the user's screen and demands two Bitcoins of internet currency to unlock the machine.

Sony has introduced a new email campaign pointing out its Pinterest page and encouraging recipients to pin items in the highly visual email. The open rate for the email was 67 percent higher than Sony's goal. The click through rate garnered a click-through rate higher than Sony's goal. Email recipients pinned the contents of the email 3,000 times.

PointDrive has introduced a new email tool that is designed for sales people. The email system supports the emailing of documents, images, links, videos and comments into one comprehensive message. The sender can check out which documents and attachments the recipient has opened up. "Professionals know that email is not always the best tool for the job," stated Bill Burnett, co-founder and CEO, in a press release. The service is available for free through the end of the year.

The FBI is warning executives to be careful which emails they open. A new spam trend is striking businesses in which hackers are pretending to be high ranking executives sending emails to other members of the company. By pretending to be an executive, hackers can order lower level employees to do things, such as transfer funds.

Sixty-one percent of email opens took place on a mobile device last quarter, according to new research from Movable Ink. Emails were opened 39 percent of the time on desktop computers. Tablets only accounted for 15 percent of email open rates. The report also revealed that the iPhone is the most popular smartphone used for checking email, capturing 78.7 percent of all smartphone email opens. Android phones accounted for 20.7 percent of smartphone email opens this quarter.

Blogger David Sparks has released a new eBook dedicated to email. The Email Field Guide is the fourth in Sparks' best-selling series of MacSparky Field Guides. The $9.99 iBooks title explores the issues surrounding the inbox. The book is designed to help readers take control of their email. It includes audio and video interviews, as well as more than 46,000 words in text.

Email company PowerInbox has a new technology called SecretInk which allows users to create emails and SMS messages that self-destruct. A user can craft an email and set it to evaporate after it has been opened. It is compatible with Gmail and other webmail platforms through a PowerInbox plug-in.

Lavabit, the encrypted email service used by Edward Snowden, lost a point this week in its fight with the U.S. government over user privacy rights. The U.S. government said in court filings on Tuesday that no company can block a court order to turn over data just because it conflicts with a company's promise to users. "The Fourth Amendment does not provide special protection for business models based on a refusal to cooperate with lawful criminal investigations," the court documents explained. "For example, a bank that refused to comply with lawful subpoenas could no doubt build a lucrative business from …

The newest email organizing app to hit the scene is called SquareOne. The app, which is currently in beta, helps users decide which emails are important and worth their time. The tool categorizes emails into two tabs -- priority and everything else. Then users are encouraged to create their own tabs be it 'friends,' 'work,' 'marketing emails', etc.