An Idaho website that tracks sex offenders has been updated allowing citizens to sign up to get an email to find out if a convicted sex offender lives near them. The platform lets the citizen share their email in order to get alerts about who currently leaves near them and to find out if anyone on the sex offender registry moves into their area. "We put the infrastructure in place for the public, if they so desire to use it," Dawn Peck, an officer at the Idaho State Police, told KTVB.

Email app Mailbox has added support for Yahoo Mail and iCloud addresses. Up until now, the app has only supported Gmail. The new upgrade also includes background syncing, which means that iOS 7 users won't have to download all of their mail at once.

A businessman in India was the victim of an online fraud and lost almost $100,000 for responding to a spam email. He responded to an email that looked like it was from a bank and shared personal details. The spammer then used these logins to steal money from his account.

Yahoo is still experiencing email issues a week after its initial problems. This is not helping the online giant with its revamp. Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, told Computerworld, that the crash is a huge blow to a company that is trying to rebrand its image. "I don't recall any other service like this being down this long over the past 15 years," he told the magazine. "It makes Yahoo look like a real Web rookie. If Yahoo doesn't fix [it soon], day-by-day they will continue to lose more credibility as a Web services company."

Email volume rates were up 12.7 percent in Q3, according to new metrics from Experian Marketing Services. The Experian Marketing Services 2013 Q3 Email Benchmark Report also found that unique open rates increased 6 percent in Q3 2103, as compared to Q3 2012. The report also identified that including a brand name in only shipping confirmation emails helped brands see a 7 percent increase in unique open rates.

Email personalization startup Sailthru has raised $20 million in Series C funding. Last year the company raised $19 million in Series B funding. The company will use the money to focus its efforts on product development and sales and marketing. The company is focused on customer engagement and personalization using big data across channels, be it online, through a mobile app or via email.

American student Amanda Knox has pleaded not guilty in the murder of her former roommate Meredith Kercher in an email sent to an Italian court this week. Knox entered the plea over the Internet rather than showing up in person for fear of a conviction. "I am innocent. I did not kill, I did not rape, I did not steal, I did not plot or instigate. I did not kill Meredith, I did not take part in her murder," she wrote in Italian in the email. Knox was acquitted in March, but the case is being tried again in a …

Using the words "urgent" or "important" in an email subject line can increase open rates, according to a new report from email marketing vendor MailChimp. The company also revealed that using a positive tone can impact opens. For instance, words like "announcement" and "invitation" are more likely to generate an email open than subject lines that use words like "reminder" and "cancelled."

Scammers are taking advantage of the busy holiday season and spoofing the popular mailing services this year. The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to beware email scams from criminals pretending to be the post office, FedEX, UPS or DHL. Emails pretending to be from these companies claim to have information about undelivered packages. However, they are not really from the companies and they could contain a "ransomware" virus that freezes a user's computer until they pay to unlock the hold.

Yahoo's email service has been experiencing major issues of the last week and over the weekend Yahoo chief Marisa Meyer took to Tumblr to apologize for the problems. She explained that it's complicated. "Unfortunately, the outage was much more complex than it seemed at first, which is why it's taking us several days to resolve the compounding issues," she said. Most users have had their access restored, but the company is still restoring access to messages for some users.