Apple has increased its security measures for iCloud email users. The company has begun encrypting emails that travel between iCloud and third-party services for me.com and mac.com email addresses. Prior to this move, the company was only encrypting emails sent between iCloud customers, leaving others exposed.

Tech startup Teamreporter wants to replace needless meetings in the workplace and replace them automated email updates which give team member daily status reports on ongoing projects. The tool allows participants to share their status updates online and at the end of the day, everyone's updates are featured in one daily email digest.

CloudMagic has just overhauled its email app, brining about a number of new and improved features. This includes access to complete mailboxes on the app's supported email services. This update also includes spam folder support, inbox filters and the ability to color code different email accounts.

Streak, a tool that lets consumers keep manage their inboxes, has a new snooze feature that allows email recipients to archive email messages. The feature lets users hit snooze on an email for a specific period of time. Once that time is over, the email will return to the top of the user's inbox. The company has been adding new tools to the app recently. For instance, Streak now allows users to receive an email receipt tool when messages that they have sent have been opened.

The Virginia Supreme Court has found in favor of the University of Virginia and former Professor Michael Mann in a case that involving his emails. The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute must pay the defendants $250 in damages. In the 2011 suit, the institute claimed that the UVa. refused to turn over emails requested by the group under Virginia's Freedom of Information Act. The court ruled in April that the emails were propriety records dealing with scholarly research.

Email customers of UK Internet provider BT have been experiencing outages over the past couple of days. In fact, thousands of users had no email over the weekend and some customers were still experiencing outages on Monday. BT said that the issue stemmed from a problem with the transfer of customers from Yahoo to its own mail service.

Google's latest Gmail API is now available and it is giving email new life. The latest update makes it easier for web developers to create apps that use email data within then. The tool, which replaces IMAP, allows developers to take threads, messages, drafts and labels from Gmail and use them within apps.

Hooshang Amirahmadi, a Muslim Rutgers University professor, said that he is disappointed but not angry or surprised that the NSA has been reading his email. has monitored his e-mail. "I think the U.S.A. security system simply wanted to make sure that what I am doing is right,"he told Philly.com. "And "I think that's not really unusual. I'm not surprised at all." Amirahmadi appeared on a list that came out this week of more than 7,000 US citizens monitored by the FBI and National Security Agency between 2002 and 2008.

A new development in the IRS email scandal played out this week as House Oversight Republicans revealed new emails sent by the former IRS official Lois Lerner. New documents reveal that Lerner warned colleagues to be careful what they write in emails because of the congressional inquiries. "I was cautioning folks about email and how we have had several occasions where Congress has asked for emails and there has been an electronic search for responsive emails - so we need to be cautious about what we say in emails," she wrote in the email. This comes after the IRS apparently …

Covered California allegedly exposed the personal data including the email addresses of at least 378 Obamacare enrollees, according to The National Review Online. The publication claims that the health exchange violated its privacy policy when navigators sent consumers' confidential data to Covered California representatives. The organization denied a risk saying that there was no indication that personal data was exposed.