Cnet
The final episode of Saturday Night Light aired this past weekend and on the show, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders met up for a late night talk over drinks. In the spoof, Kate McKinnon's Clinton explained super delegates to Larry David's Sanders and Sanders said that he was too easy on Clinton about her email scandal.
Nieman Journalism Lab
Writers from ProPublica and ESPN and a team of investors are behind a new email newsletter dedicated to sports called launched TipOff Sports. The twice-weekly email newsletter is aimed at giving non-sports fans the low down on what's going on in sports. The idea is to provide a kind of crib sheet to people who socialize with sports fans to be aware of the water cooler conversation.
The Verge
Google has revealed plans for a new messaging app called Allo. The tool is like WhatsApp with an integrated virtual assistant and your Google account all rolled into it. The app will be available later this summer on both iOS and Android devices.
Alabama.com
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley used his private email account for public business. The politician required staffers to email him at his Comcast address and not his official email account. He also allegedly used burner phones which he trashed regularly.
The Indiana Lawyer
Consumer advocacy groups have asked the Indiana Supreme Court to appeal a recent decision which allows lawmakers to hold onto emails despite public records requests. In April, the court ruled that it had no authority to intervene in legislative matters. Still the court said that lawmakers should release emails pertaining to lobbyists and campaign donations.
Slate
Ticketmaster has settled a class action lawsuit over delivery and order processing fees and has emailed more than 50 million people letting them know what is coming to them. Customers will receive discount codes for future purchases in these emails.
CMSWire
Harmon.ie, a b-to-b service that helps employees better collaborate using email & document sharing, has formalized their partnership with governance and record management firm Gimmal to offer information governance for email accounts. Clients can use the integrated service to capture, organize, archive and search for business documents directly from Outlook using the tool.
Bloomberg
The United State Postal Service tested an email program back in the 1970s. The government agency hired a consultant to explore futuristic mail delivery sources and explored sending messages via fax, as well as a very early email system called E-COM. E-COM was supposed to save the post office from a future in which mail would go away. While the service did have some clients, red tape and steep competition prevented it from taking off.
ABC News
The Australian Federal Police is warning citizens about an email scam in circulation that claims the recipient needs to go to court. The email reads: "you are invited to the law court by the judge because of an offense against the law." The court asks the recipient to download case documents which are infected with malware.
Fortune
A hacker is selling 117 million email and password combinations of LinkedIn users on a dark web marketplace. The Russian hacker is asking for five Bitcoins, or about $2,300, for the data. The news comes after a false scare about hundreds of millions of email passwords being sold on the dark web.