Salesforce debuted Salesorce Wave, a new cloud-based service for analyzing data, at its annual Dreamforce event today. The new service allows marketers to access data from ExactTarget, Pardot, Buddy Media, Radian 6, among others into Wave's analytics platform.

Social data tool Discoverly has launched a Gmail widget that allows users to see a complete social profile of anyone on their email contact list. The tool works as a browser add-on and allows a user to look at someone's email address to view their Twitter account, Facebook page and LinkedIn info, and then see any connections they have across these networks.

Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show may be a Democrat, but he certainly doesn't like his party's email marketing efforts. On his show this week, he complained about the fundraising messages which are clogging his inbox. "Oh, dear God, the emails from the Democrats with a frequency and desperation matched only by a Nigerian Prince selling a Groupon deal for boner pills," he said on his show on Monday night. "The Democrats and the emails will not stop trying to make you give that money."

Mailbox's email app for OS X has come out of beta and is now widely available. The Dropbox-owned desktop app for Mac users is designed to help email users keep their inbox under control by organizing emails. Users of the popular mobile app can easily switch between drafts on their computer, saving their activity on both devices.

Australian ISP Telstra suffered a major outage this week preventing its BigPond email users from receiving emails all day on Monday. The issue affected some of its Microsoft Windows Live accounts. Customers with these accounts could send emails but failed to see emails intended for their inbox. The organization is working to address the issue.

Despite a judge's orders to pass on customer email data to the U.S. government, Microsoft is contenting to put up a fight since the data is stored outside of the U.S. Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith told The Irish Times that this case could set a precedent. "We are concerned if we lose this case, governments will demand that data centers are constructed in their countries to store the data of their citizens," he said. "That would be bad for the IT sector in Ireland."

Kmart is the latest retailer to have its payment systems hacked into with malicious software. Last week, Sears Holdings Corp. reported that its Kmart stores were exposed and that some customer credit and debit card numbers were compromised beginning in early September. The company didn't say if email addresses were exposed but did reveal that the breach didn't affect kmart.com or Sears stores or websites.

India's Income Tax department has introduced a new secure email system for its employees to use. The new system is designed to be more secure and protect private taxpayer data. The agency has discontinued using Lotus mail and IMail, both of which were susceptible to fraud attacks.

U.S. marketers are having a difficult time bypassing ISPs when mailing to consumers in China, according to a new report from Return Path. The 2014 Inbox Placement Benchmark Report found that 46.7 percent of emails sent by U.S. marketers to consumers in China end up in spam folders or bulk folders. On the other hand, U.S. email marketers are having a much more success reaching Australian consumers, as 92 percent of their emails are landing in the inbox.

The Illinois Attorney General's office has warned consumers to be on the lookout for unsolicited emails reporting on an "Ebola Pandemic." The spam emails offer to sell recipients "surplus personal protection" kits for $29. "We suspect these emails are the handiwork of scammers seeking to take advantage of people's understandable fear and anxiety surrounding this international public health risk,"explained Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General, in the statement.