Thirty-nine percent of businesses in the UK describe their mobile email strategy as 'basic' and 22 percent say it is 'non-existent', according to a new report from Econsultancy and Adestra. However more than half of consumers open emails on mobile phones. According to the 8th annual Email Marketing Industry Census, only 5 percent of companies reported that their mobile email strategy is 'very advanced.'

In a move to stop the NSA from spying, Brazil's defence ministry has begun adding encryption to the digital communications network for federal government offices. The goal is to keep emails out of the hands of US surveillance agencies. The system uses passwords and digital markers to protect email privacy, as well as certifying the authenticity of the email's origin.

Google has released a number of new features for the Gmail inbox including snooze, extra tabs and email pinning. The snooze button lets recipients hit snooze on an email so that it will resurface as an unread piece of mail in a given time frame. The user can select the timing from an hour to a couple of weeks. The new tabs feature allows Gmail users to help get organized. There is a tab for travel, a tab for recipients and other useful categories. The pinning function allows users to "pin" emails to the top of their inbox, the way …

Google is experimenting with a new feature that would let Gmail users opt to have promotional messages display in an image-based grid view with unlimited scrolling. The project is currently in beta and users have to sign up to use it. Jordan Cohen, vice president of Movable Ink, told The Magill Report that this new format could change how marketers approach email design. "Gmail's new grid view is a huge opportunity for marketers to optimize open rates and conversions," he said to The Magill Report. "But if they don't design to the specifications that Google has mapped out for the …

New emails have emerged that reveal that GM executives may have known about issues in vehicles for years. The emails have surfaced as part of the Senate investigation into General Motors safety issues. The emails show that executives knew about issues with specific cars and had been given suggestions on how to fix the issues as far back as 2005.

The Indian government has banned the use of Gmail for official communication, yet some officials are still using the Google platform. The delays stem from issues framing the email policy almost a year after it was first announced. According to insiders, there is a "lack of clarity" surrounding "technology policy issues" that needs to be resolved.

The developers of Sell Hack, a browser plug-in that lets users capture the email address of any LinkedIn users without a membership or a connection to the user, has been removed. The plugin made headlines yesterday, prompting LinkedIn to serve the company with a cease-and-desist letter. But don't expect them to disappear. "We are building a better product that does not conflict with LinkedIn's TOS," the developers said on their blog.

SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White defended the practice of collecting emails without a warrant to the House Appropriations subcommittee on financial services, explaining that the agency instead uses subpoenas to access emails that are older that 180 days. The SEC is within the law, as the Electronic Privacy Communications Act, allows law enforcement officials to access electronic communications that have been stored for more than three months without a warrant. Senators from across the aisle have been pushing to update the law and law enforcement has supported the push. However, civil agencies such as the SEC are opposing the update.

The German labor ministry has updated its policy, preventing managers from emailing employees after hours. The goal is to prevent workers from working while they are off the clock. The move comes after the leading German companies Volkswagen and Deutsche Telekom banned after-hours email among employees. Managers can only get in touch with their employees after hours under "exceptional circumstances."

A Dallas-based job seeker attached a photo of his penis in an email that he sent to an employment agency. The recipient of the email alerted police to the communication. The email was sent by a man that she had already met with and described as "very professional." He followed up the obscene email with an email with his resume attached.