• Pluto Mail Lets You Unsend Email
    Just pressed send but realized you didn't want to share that information? Pluto Mail has just the thing. The new service aims to be like the Snapchat of email by allowing users to unsend emails. The free tool also allows email senders to edit and monitor the emails that they have sent in order to control their messaging beyond pushing send.
  • Charge For Emails Sent to You With Wrte.io
    Wrte.io allows email users to charge people to email them. The new service requires users to get a @wrte.io email address and either share that address or forward messages from their current account to that address. When the sender emails the person at the address, they get an auto reply bill. The bill allows the sender to pay by credit card or bitcoin for the right to send the email.
  • The Washington Times Puts Email List on the Market
    The Washington Times has partnered with Viguerie Political Lists to put a new email list on the market for the upcoming political election season. With the addition of The Washington Times Engaged Patriots email list, the paper now has a dozen email lists up for rent. The new list has more than 500,000 conservatives. The list includes gun rights enthusiasts, Hispanics to Christian voters.
  • Congress Passes Surveillance Law Requiring Court Order to Spy on Communications
    The U.S. Senate passed legislation to reform the government's digital surveillance program sending it on for President Obama to sign into law. The USA Freedom Act requires companies including Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc,to collect and store telephone records for filing purposes. However, instead of feeding this data to U.S. intelligence, government agencies must provide a government request approved by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
  • Indiana Hospital Hack Exposes Employee Email System
    Indiana hospital network Beacon Health System has notified about 220,000 patients after its email system was hacked. An employee noticed an issue with its email account and then the IT team identified a phishing attack that has allowed scammers to access employee's email accounts since November 2013. "While there is no evidence that any sensitive information was actually viewed or removed from the email boxes, Beacon confirmed that patient information was located within certain email boxes," the company revealed in a statement.
  • Harvard Doctoral Candidate Studies Relationships Based on Email Communications
    Andrew Brodsky, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School, thinks that email typos are more than just embarrassing mistakes. His research suggests that these typos are unintentional emotional cues that subconsciously slip into the inbox. Brodsky suggests that tone, length and even little mistakes in email offer psychological insights into the relationship between people.
  • Email is the Preferred Marketing Channel Among Canadian Consumers
    Sixty-eight percent of Canadian consumers say that email is their favorite way to keep in touch with businesses, according to a new report from Constant Contact. The research revealed that only 12 percent of consumers want to hear from brands on mobile, 8 percent said mail, 7 percent said in-person and 5 percent said vie social media. According to the study, 63 percent of small businesses use email to communicate with consumers.
  • Emailage Introduces Freemium Model to Reach Smaller Firms
    Emailage, a fraud prevention startup that identifies online risk based on an email address, has launched a new freemium browser extension. The tool allows companies to identify if an online transaction is likely to be legitimate based on the email. The free version is designed to allow smaller businesses to use these extensions.
  • Facebook Adds Email Encryption to Email
    Facebook is making its email more secure. The social network is now allowing users to enable encryption for their email alerts. The feature will be rolled out over the next few days. So far the feature is designed for desktop browsers, but the company is working on a tool to allow users to manage their encryption keys via mobile as well.
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