Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is in the hot seat after reports have circulated that he used his government email account to create a campaign strategy with a political ally that appeared to use a racial slur in a message to Hynes. In the email exchange with New York's former chief judge Sol Wachtler, Wachtler allegedly used the term "schwarze," a derogatory Yiddish word for a black person. Hynes denies the charges and says that it is likely a forgery created by a former employee whom which he had a personal dispute.

Email app Dispatch, a tool that lets consumers turn their inbox into a set of action items, has just been updated giving consumers more actions to choose from. The update brings a unified inbox feature, letting users access inboxes across all of their email accounts. This includes support for Gmail, iCloud, AOL, Yahoo, and FastMail.

British football outfit Manchester United has come out and said sorry for sending a promotional email to fans with a graphic that looked like a swastika inside. Fans took to Twitter to complain about the logo which was part of an email about the club's new players entitled 'New Order.' The club's head of media, David Sternberg stated, "The creative is completely inappropriate; we apologise unreservedly and are taking appropriate internal action."

The City of Los Angeles has put out an RFP looking for a new email service to begin managing its government emails in November 2014, when its current contract with Google expires. The company is looking for an email cloud service. This would not be the first time that the city used the cloud for email. In 2009, the city tried to migrate its employees from a traditional on-premises email system to a cloud service, but decided to pull the cloud feature before roll out was complete due to technical challenges.

LinkedIn has defended issues raised by security experts about its LinkedIn Intro feature, a new tool that adds profile data about a sender when you receive an email. LinkedIn says that its process is safe and called it "the most secure implementation we believed possible." The company is responding to reports from security analysts that claimed the tool was insecure.

The Denver police sent an internal email stressing the importance of not leaking information to the press. That email was leaked. CBS4, the outlet that reported the information, said that they had received it from more than one officer. "Once the media makes it a story, the facts can be twisted, inaccurate, incomplete, misquoted and the public has a misperception of the issue, the situation, and basically who we are and what we do," the email read.

Google is now allowing Gmail users to add their handwriting to email messages so that they can send emails in their own handwriting. Users must employ their mousepad or cursor to write out a message and Google will turn the typed version into a handwritten version. The tool is in more than 50 languages for Gmail and in 20 languages for Google Docs.

LinkedIn updated its apps this week and in doing so introduced a new feature called "Intro" which lets iPhone users see the LinkedIn profiles of people who have sent them an email. The feature works without even having to leave the regular iPhone email app. The recipient of the email sees the sender's name, their LinkedIn profile picture, and the company they work for and their title. The recipient can also click to find out more about the sender's career, and other LinkedIn connections.

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.