Former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown has broken up with the conservative news site NewsMax after the outlet apparently used an email list that Brown had rented to send out an email with the the headline "5 Signs You'll Get Alzheimer's Disease." Brown said that he had been considering an occasional list rental deal with the news site, but after this event will no longer work with them. "I was exploring entering into an occasional rental agreement with the vendor that sent out the email this morning," he said. "While the issues of Alzheimer's is personal to me and an issue …

Lobbyist Patricia Lynch's email was hacked. Hackers sent out an email on her behalf claiming that she was on vacation in Pasay City, and had her passport and wallet stolen. The email solicits money to help her pay her hotel bills and buy a ticket back home. Lynch revealed that her email was hacked and that she is at work in snowy Albany.

Emails with personalized subject line have a 26 percent higher unique open rate than non-personalized emails, according to Experian's 2013 Email Market Study. The research also revealed that this varies by industry. Travel companies, for example, see the largest increase in open rates when personalizing email subject lines generating an average 28.5 percent open rate.

House Republicans have uncovered an email and using it as evidence that the Obama administration had plans to regulations on tax-exempt organizations to crack down on conservative nonprofits. The email revealed that Treasury and IRS officials have been privately planning new rules on tax-exempt organizations since back in 2012, before it was more widely discussed. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, testified that he didn't know about the email.

A Massachusetts man suspected threatening email faculty members at Rhode Island's Roger Williams University Law School via email has surrendered to police. The former law school student is accused of sending an email to the university threatening to "shoot up" campuses in Bristol, MA and Providence, R.I.

Email management app Boxer has acquired the Android app Enhanced Email in a deal whose terms were not disclosed. The deal will allow the company to provider users apps for Android users, expanding beyond its flagship iOS app. Boxer is designed to help users manage emails quickly and organize them into different categories including: archive, delete, or respond to later. Users can also create task lists based on their email tools.

Sixty-fve percent of marketing emails sent to consumers were opened on a smartphone or a tablet in Q4 2013, which was up from 61 percent in Q3 2013, according to new research from Movable Ink. Only thirty-five percent of marketing emails were opened on a desktop during the quarter, down from 39 percent in the previous quarter.

Email is the central core to workflow, and is used for many more tasks than one on one communications. According to a survey by The Harvard Business Review, 76 percent of people said that they use email to exchange and archive documents; 69 percent use it to send information to groups; 61 percent said that they use it to improve communications across timezones; 60 percent use it for accountability; and 59 percent use it to search for information.

David Warren a Vermont high school teacher has gotten his job back, after being fired in 2012 for violating the school's email policy. The school initially fired Warren, claiming that he used school email to for personal gain. He was warned not to do this after using his school email address to communicate with members of his band. Following this occasion, Warren then used his work email to purchase a gun from an online broker. He claims that it was an old account and he didn't realize the broker was still using his school email address. An arbitrator found the …

The Scentee is a new tool that re-imagines email alerts. Rather than hearing a ding or a beep, the device emits a scent every time the user gets a new email in their inbox or someone posts to their Facebook page. Users can personalize their scents choosing roses, fruit or even bacon. The device also lights up with LED lights when a message comes through. Users can attach the Scentee into their handset's headphone jack and use an app to support the scented communication.