A number of Road Runner email users have been experiencing email outages over the past day. Users are not receiving emails that have been sent to their accounts. The problem has affected customers in multiple markets, but not all users are having issues. Time Warner says that it is investigating the problem.

Time Warner Cable has responded to a disruption in Roadrunner email service saying that they are examining the issue. The problem is keeping some Roadrunner users from receiving and sending emails but it is not systemwide. "We've identified an issue and our engineers are working on it," Michael Pedelty, a spokesman for Time Warner told JournalStar.com. "We apologize for any inconvenience this causes."

Louise Evans, global director of communications & marketing at Dentsu Aegis Network, thinks that companies need to rethink email in the workplace in order to attract Generation Y employees. In an interview with Forbes, she explained that email is still core, but needs to be more concise to deal with short attention spans. "It's no good sending a long email saying 'We've done A, B and C, and now we're going to do X, Y and Z.' People won't read it - they don't have the time or the energy, and Generation Y aren't used to absorbing information in that …

Florida food delivery service Gainesville2Go is claiming that a former co-owner of the company has stolen its customer email list. The service emailed customers to let them know that they might start getting emails from another company. "We take very seriously this breach and intend to notify the appropriate authorities. Please ignore any email you may receive pretending to be us, not from this gainesville2go email account," explained the email.

Dripread allows web users to sign up for daily email digests of content they'd like to read from around the web. The tool lets users choose what they'd like to read by adding news articles from around the web to a reading list. They can even upload their own ebooks. The tool then splits the content up into small digestable segments which are distributed to the user through a daily email digest. When users are done reading the email, they can click 'Done Reading' which triggers the next installment.

More than 80 percent of US citizens in six states and the greater Los Angeles area support efforts to reform the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) the act that governs email privacy, according to a new survey from Vox Populi Polling. In addition, the research revealed that between 64 and 72 percent of survey respondents said that they thought that online privacy is becoming increasingly important.

Microsoft is challenging a US warrant that demands that the company share customer email data stored at an Irish data center with the federal government. In the court filings, the Redmond, WA-based company argued that the governments demands violate international law and treaties, reducing global privacy protection.

Colorado-based email delivery firm SendGrid is now automatically encrypting emails that are sent through its email delivery service. The platform will automatically use encrypted connections with mailbox providers so that marketers email messages cannot be intercepted while in transit.

Email management app Gusto has been updated and now supports Yahoo email accounts. Prior to this upgrade the service only supported Gmail and Facebook messages. In addition the Version 2.0 update brings about a new feature that view and share your Facebook photos right within the app.

Social is the most effective marketing channel followed by native and then email, according to a new report from Millward Brown Digital for MediaBrix. Fifty-one percent of marketers that responded to the survey said that social ads met their digital branding objectives, 46 percent said that native ads met those objectives and 36 percent replied that email helped achieve the goal. Lower on the list marketers credited paid search (23 percent), mobile Web (23 percent), "emotionally targeted" in-game (20 percent), mobile in-app (20 percent), programmatic (18 percent), regular in-game (14 percent), text messaging (12 percent), and ads purchased directly from …