More than half of all email is opened on a mobile device by consumers, according to a new study from Yesmail Interactive. Despite this fact, the report revealed that only 1 percent of marketers are using responsive design to optimize emails for mobile.

The University of Nottingham has sent an 'oops' email to apologize for a mass email that it mistakenly sent to thousands of job applicants from its job site. The university accidentally sent an email with an attachment containing personal information about 4,751 job applicants. The document included information such as if the applicant was successful or not. The university says it is looking into the mistake.

Cuba's state telecom Etecsa has begun allowing users to send emails from their phones. Unfortunately, the system was not built to support the volume of messages that users were sending and the service has experienced major outages. The island's old cellphone towers were swamped which had a negative effect on the email platform, as well as the service's mobile phone calling and texting ability.

Researchers from CERN and MIT has created an email system designed so that even the NSA can't crack into it. The email platform is called ProtonMail and uses end-to-end encryption on the browser before it travels to a server. The idea is that even if a government requests to access emails, the company can protect themselves by not having access to the encryption key.

Conversion Marketing has acquired Romanian-based email marketing firm Conectoo in a deal whose terms were not disclosed. Conectoo's clients include: eMag, MRM Worldwide Romania, Ringier or Netbridge Development. Conectoo founder Bogdan Iordache will resign his post as CEO but the rest of the team will join Conversion Marketing.

Security experts are warning Yahoo Mail users to beware emails that are part of a phishing campaign. The emails look like they are from Yahoo and advise recipients that they a virus has been detected in the account. "We detect dsvx Virus in your Yahoo! Mail account," reads the email. "So it's time to update, before you lose your email access. Your email service won't be affected and you'll keep all your old contacts, folders and messages." The email is bogus and interacting with it can expose user data to scammers.

A spam email is in circulation in New Zealand. The emails claims to come from House of Travel and offers recipients $1000 worth of vouchers. Users are instructed to click a url the that goes to a landing page which looks to collect bank account details.

EasilyDo has introduced an iOS app called EasilyDo Contacts Catch All that allows users to scan their email history in order to find contact information. The tool scans the inbox and then formats the contacts into the user's contact list. The service works with Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, AOL and other email platforms. It works with Yahoo Mail but there are some issues and it can take 24 hours to populate. The service costs a one-time fee of $59.99.

Despite predictions about the death of email, email is a long way from extinction. In fact, according to a report from Forrester Research, there will be 227 million active email users in the U.S. by 2017.

India's state-run telecom BSNL is launching a new email service. The platform was developed by Jaipur-based IT company Data Infosys. The BSNL XGen personal and business email service be be free for the company's broadband customers. The service allows email uses to control the emails they send and can lock an email from being forwarded or printed.