As it becomes increasingly harder to get email delivered in today's complex and over-saturated email ecosystem, is it time for a pay-to-play email "stamp" to ensure delivery? With the recent acquisition a Yahoo! and AOL by Verizon are we nearing the moment that a true "pay to deliver" solution could be in the works?

Sir Richard Branson probably isn't your boss. But if he was, he'd tell you to unplug for a moment -- maybe even two. Virgin, the British multinational company founded by Branson, recently instituted a new requirement that some of its employees turn off email for two hours a week in a bid to improve their well being and creativity.

Gmail started rolling out support for CSS media queries across its email clients around midnight last night, following through on the September 14 announcement that it would support responsive design later in the month. With these media queries, email designers will be able to specify different display styles based on things like width, screen resolution and rotation.