The University of Pittsburgh has plans to upgrade its email platform from EnterpriseMail to Microsoft Office 365. The update brings users a huge upgrade in storage from 250 MB to 50 GB, as well as a number of new features. For instance, users will now be able to access an online calendar, import personal contacts and access to a new university directory. The new tool will also include a tool for scheduling online video conferences. The upgrade will take place on July 19th.

Zipmark makes it easy for companies that do business with each ohter on a regular basis to send payments via email within a day. The system allows users to exchange money from their bank accounts without having to go through a third-party service like PayPal.

The Isle of Man Bank has sent out a wanting to customers alerting them to an email scam in circulation. The bank revealed that some of its customers have gotten an email that appears to come from the bank with the subject line, "Important: Account Resolution Required." The spam email tries to solicit personal information from recipients and is a security risk for consumers.

Al-Sahab, the media wing of Al-Qaida, is now using Safemail for encrypted email. According to Safemail's website, their email platform is: "The most secure, easy to use communication system. It includes encrypted mail system with collaboration features and document storage functions. Always accessible at any time from anywhere!"

An administrator at UVA's law school accidentally sent out a mass email with the personal information of clerkship applicants to everyone on its clerkship listserv. The email included an attachment which wasn't meant for mass consumption. The document included details about the applicants' GPA, class rank, work experience and recommendations.

Google has given the NSA the middle finger in its latest encryption update. In a piece of code, the online giant referenced an NSA slide which illustrated how the agency accessed Google and Yahoo data centers outside of the U.S. The code nods to the NSA saying, "SSL added and removed here" but is being used to keep the government out instead of allowing them in.

Marketing email volume dropped almost 20 percent during the first quarter of 2014 when compared to Q3 2013, according to a new report from Yesmail. The report also revealed that average open and unique click rates increased during Q1 2014. In fact, overall open rates were up 6 percent during the quarter and unique click rates grew 8 percent.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has warned state residents of a scam in which fraudsters are using her office's name to dupe people via email. The emails claim that the recipient will be prosecuted for alleged debts. The email is a scam and Madigan says recipients should report the malicious messages to her office's consumer fraud bureau.

An doctor in New Zealand was scammed out of $300,000 when a Nigeria-based criminal hacked into his father's email account. The fraudster, posing as the doctor's father, asked him to transfer money. The doctor shared his harrowing tale as part of International Fraud Awareness Week with the hopes that others who hear the story won't be so easily tricked.

Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Professor of Business Psychology at University College London, says that the words that are used in an email says a lot about the person writing them. In a column for Fast Company, he argues that emails sent by people that use the word 'I', 'me' and 'mine' tend to identify narcissistic tendencies, and emails that contain words like narrative and rhetoric are often used by intellectuals.