Google is reportedly working on a service that would bring end-to-end encryption to Gmail users and make their email platform more secure. The effort is called Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption. However as PC World points out, Google scans user emails for advertising purposes, so they will probably not turn the feature on automatically as Yahoo recently did. Instead, they will more likely make it available to the small percentage of users that take the time to turn it on.

A number of AOL email users have reported that their accounts have been hacked into. The issue has even turned into a Twitter discussion under the hashtag #aolhacked. It is not clear whether or not the accounts were just spoofed or if they were actually hacked into, but it is clear that users are upset about the problem. AOL is working to get to the bottom of the issue.

The ExactTarget Marketing Cloud from salesforce.com has formed a partnership with Datalogix in order to expand its measurement tools for sales and advertising campaigns. The new alliance will allow marketers to access Datalogix's $1 trillion in offline consumer spending data within the ExactTarget Marketing Cloud's Social.com and Active Audiences advertising platforms.

Morgan Stanley's chief U.S. equity strategist Adam Parker will not accept a bounce back from someone saying that they have "limited access" to email. In a note he sent out to clients, he explains why he thinks that this is not a valid excuse. proceeds to explain how that's a lame excuse in this day and age. "Where on planet earth can you go and have limited access to your email? We travel a lot," he wrote in the note. "Over 100 flights, to five continents, to more than 15 countries, and 30+ states in the last year. E-mail works …

Marc Dosogne, the CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee County in Florida, has resigned after being on an administrative leave that stemmed from an insensitive email he sent out two weeks ago. The local NAACP and Southern Christian Leadership Conference had demanded that Dosogne be fired after he sent an email boasting about how the organization does not hire people with dreadlocks or teenagers with children.

PC email app Mailbird has released a new feature that is designed to help email users read quickly through long emails. The tool is called the "speed reader" option, and helps users quickly scan long emails for important information. The feature follows a trend in speed reading apps which have taken off in the app space and are currently attracting venture capitalists.

Darlene Lieblich Tipton was fired from her executive role at Fox Cable Networks Group after using her company email address as a tool to raise money for the families of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Fox declined to comment on the specifics, however they did confirm that "The conduct and communications at issue were not authorized by Fox and were in violation of company policy."

The recent Heartbleed bug scare, it is a smart idea to delete any old email accounts that you no longer use. Lifehacker has put together a list of tips to help you track these down including searching your current inbox for the term: "Confirm your email." The bug, which affects many different online accounts including Gmail and Yahoo Mail, can allow hackers to access login and password information without a trace. Deleting old accounts will help users secure their risk of exposure.

New Jersey's Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has received hundreds of emails, allegedly from hundreds of different citizens, which claimed to support Verizon's demand that the company not have to build broadband infrastructure it had promised. The problem is, all of the emails were written exactly the same, raising a red flag that these emails actually stemmed from Verizon. Citizens whose names were used in these emails have come forward reporting that they did not write the emails.

The laptop computer that Bill Clinton used to send the first US presidential email ever has been auctioned off by RR Auction for $60,667. The Boston auction house that handled the transaction did not reveal who made the purchase. However, they did disclose that it was a Toshiba Satellite that Clinton had borrowed to email veteran astronaut John Glenn, who was orbiting Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery. The computer is still in working order.