U.S. District Court Judge Lucy H. Koh has decided to allow a case against Yahoo to go to court involving allegations that the company tapped its user's email accounts in order to send targeted ads. The judge ruled that Yahoo could have broken the law by not informing users that it was scanning the messages of Yahoo Mail users in order to build consumer profiles. Yahoo had pushed to dismiss the case.

Indian hospital chain Narayana Health has partnered with IBM to manage its new email platform. The partnership will help Narayana Health administrators and employees communicate more easily with a new email service, a collaborative calendar and a contact management system. The communications will be stored in the cloud.

Australia Post has warned its customers not to open an email that appears to come from the mail service, but is really a spam message. The email claims that "a courier did not deliver" a package to the recipient's address and that Australia Post "will have the right to claim compensation" for storing the unclaimed package. The email contains malicious links which try to collect payments.

More than 70 percent of marketers are using email to engage customers and to communicate product news, according to a new study from Lionbridge Technologies. The 2014 Global Email Survey also revealed that more than 45 percent of marketers use emails for customer service communications and 58 percent use email to share thought leadership research.

Apple has launched an email campaign this week promoting the business features on the iPad. The messages focus on the tablet's productivity capabilities, highlighting the device's business-oriented apps such as Pages, Numbers, Keynote and Microsoft's Office apps for iPad. "iPad is the perfect way to be more productive than ever," reads the copy. "Its powerful apps are designed to take full advantage of the things only iPad can do. So you'll have everything you need to do what matters most."

The University of Colorado Health (UCHealth) has tapped the Zix Corporation to provide encrypted email for its communications system in order to protect patient privacy and meet the regulatory requirements. The new partnership will help the organization deploy secure email across its entire healthcare system which consists of Memorial Health System, Poudre Valley Health System and University of Colorado Hospital.

New York University is sending out checks to graduate students, but they are a lot smaller than an email promised. NYU's student health insurance program sent emails back in May to about 52,000 students promising refunds for hundreds of dollars. The checks are turning out to be a measly few dollars. Students are upset by the mistake, many of whom already spent the money they were promised.

Microsoft has joined Google in using its email and app scanning technology to help fight child pornography. The tech giant recently tipped the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children about a man who allegedly used his Kik Messenger app to share photos of child pornography on his mobile phone. The news comes a week after Google flagged a Gmail user who allegedly used his email account to send pornographic images of children, leading to his arrest.

Google and Yahoo are now requiring email users in India to share their phone numbers in order to sign up for a new email address. The reason for this new step is to make sure that new users are not spammers and have a legitimate phone number tied to their accounts. Internet Service Providers Association of India are against the new rules and say that there is no law requiring the Internet companies to do this.

Online retail giant Amazon has been going head-to-head with book publisher Hachette in a negotiation about eBook prices that has been fueled by PR. In the latest battle, both companies have published letters encouraging book buyers to email the CEO of the other's company. Amazon is encouraging its supporters to email Hachette's CEO demanding lower eBook prices. Hachette authors have banded together and encouraged readers to email Amazon's chief in their defense.