The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK is warning about a spam outbreak in which thousands of people have received emails claiming that they have cancer. The hoax emails appear to come from NICE, but the email has been sent by spammers. Sir Andrew Dillon, the chief executive of NICE, said that the organization is looking for the source of the problem and warns recipients not to open the email.

There is a growing issue surrounding email miscommunications between bosses and employees. This is resulting in bad feelings at work. Often times bosses are too busy to answer or fail to read entire emails on mobile devices. Employees don't help by sending poor emails. According to a survey conducted by Florida State University, one-third of the 700 employees surveyed said their bosses had given them "the silent treatment" in the preceding year.

Nathaniel Borenstein sent the world's first email attachment 22 years ago. The early adopter did an interview with Quartz.com expressing his ideas on everything from Bitcoin to modern day privacy concerns. "A lot of that effort of going into the privacy implications of new technology is wasted. People used to talk about hacking in Dick Cheney's pacemaker, and it could have been done. You're going to be walking around with a whole host of new devices in your body. They're there because they're good for you. You're better off finding out about cancer when it's seven cells than when it's …

Security firm Kaspersky has exposed a new phishing email campaign which is going after Apple users with fake emails. The emails come from an address called nforms@apple.com with the subject line: "Apple is rewarding its long-term customers." The phishing email encourages recipients to click on a link to get an "Apple Discount Card." The links point to Apple's official website but the file is actually a phishing page which collects the personal data of users.

Tipbit, a startup that is focused on designing apps for email on mobile devices, has raised $4 million in Series A funding in a round led by Ignition Partners. In addition to the new funding, the app has updates its app to include an integration with cloud services including Evernote, Dropbox, and Salesforce.

Despite the fear, Gmail Tabs is not hurting marketers. According to a new report from Yes Lifecycle Marketing more than 32 percent of Gmail users opted in to receive marketing messages in 2013. In addition, mobile purchases went up by 58 percent between Q3 and Q4 2013, and Yes Lifecycle Marketing's research shows that 55 percent of all email opens happened on a mobile device in Q4 2013.

Sarah Palin closed this year's Conservative Political Action Conference with a speech riffing on Dr. Seuss' classic children's book Green Eggs and Ham. She received accolades for the speech, but it turns out that she lifted it from a chain email that was circulating in 2010.

The average workers sends more than 11,500 emails a year, according to the Harvard Business Review. Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 take advantage of this fact by offering tools to make email more efficient and more effective in the workplace.

App maker CloudMagic has taken its personal search app in a new direction and is making it a search-focused email application. The new update comes with a feature called "cards" that lets users turn email messages into workflow items. These cards can turn into work flow tools for things like helpdesk ticket, saving data to Salesforce, or creating a note in Evernote. The idea is to streamline the process of email and turn into a work to jump into tasks.

Undergraduate students at Oakland University were the recipients of many unwanted email, after the university sent out a mass emailer asking students to participate in a class survey without bccing the list. The email faux pax resulted in hundreds of students replying to the mass email with their own agendas. One student even used the list to try and sell an old microwave. "The Office of the Registrar at Oakland University sent out an official email to all undergraduate students over the weekend," explained Brian Bierley, director of media relations, at the university, in a statement. "That email should have …