I’ve written for years about my hopes for a ‘social email’ tool — one in which email threads could be 1. shared…
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Problems with email integration for work management tools
I’ve been evaluating a long list of work management tools as part of the research for the Work Management Narrative report (see…
Read MoreQ&A about Enterprise Social Networks with IBM
IBM sent some questions following the recent IBM Connect conference. They are based on some unwritten assumptions that I disagree with, which…
Read MoreWork chat Fleep’s slash commands, tasks, and email integration
2016-01-19: Updated with some corrections. Strikeouts indicated former erroneous material now amended or deleted, and italics show new explanations. I’ve been closely…
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Sortd is another take on the dream of ‘One Inbox’
Email is often characterized as hellish: at best a necessary evil and at worst a monstrous time sink. Email has evolved into…
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Atlassian’s IPO is just part of its lofty goal for the workplace
One of Silicon Valley’s “unicorns” (that is, a tech company valued at over $1 billion), Atlassian is the company behind JIRA, HipChat,…
Read MoreAutocomplete fail: Gmail is suggesting the wrong email addresses
Better check twice before firing off that email today: You could be sending it to the wrong person, thanks to a Gmail…
Read MoreFunds flow in for GnuPG author after article reveals his plight
On Thursday ProPublica published the frustrating tale of Werner Koch, the one guy – yes really – who’s maintaining the extremely widely-used…
Read MoreHands on with Microsoft’s new Outlook for iOS
Microsoft quietly released Outlook for Mobile this week. It was a little weird as there were no leaks or even a hint…
Read MoreAmazon launches new email service called WorkMail
Amazon is once again adding to its business-suite arsenal, this time with the announcement of WorkMail, the company’s new email and calendar…
Read MoreTutanota releases iOS encrypted email app after notifying NSA
The German encrypted email service Tutanota has released its iOS app, weeks after its Android app came out. The delay in the…
Read MoreHere’s why email newsletters can be so powerful — and valuable
The success of email newsletters is a sign of how powerful -- and valuable -- personal curation can be for readers who are swamped by an ever-growing flood of real-time information…
Read MoreGoogle’s alpha-stage email encryption plugin lands on GitHub
Google has updated its experimental End-to-End email encryption plugin for Chrome and moved the project to GitHub. The firm said in a…
Read MorePro tip: If you use cloud storage, bring your own security
If you weren’t already worried about the security of your company’s internal memos and other documents, the recent Sony hack probably fixed that (and…
Read MoreSendGrid gets $20M to make in-app email easier
In-app email facilitator claims it sends 435 million messages a day, 15 billion per month.…
Read MoreYup it’s true: Microsoft buys Acompli
Errant blog did not lie: Microsoft did buy Acompli for its slick iOS and Android email and scheduling app.…
Read MoreIf email is dead, why so many new email products?
For years we've been hearing that email is circling the drain. Too much noise. Too much spam. Too distracting. Young people text. Blah blah blah. Given all that, many of us (ahem) still spend a ton of time on email -- at least at work.…
Read More“Public by default” is the future of professional communication
Expecting privacy in every form of communication may create more problems than it solves.…
Read MoreFacebook says more email providers are now using extension that encrypts emails
Facebook announced Tuesday that 95 percent of the notification emails it sends out are now being encrypted using STARTTLS — the extension…
Read MoreAOL acknowledges security breach; contacts, addresses, encrypted passwords exposed
According to the Aol mail team, there was unauthorized access to information from 2 percent of Aol email accounts, including address books and encrypted passwords.…
Read MoreMail.ru launches an email service only accessible from a smartphone
Unlike other email portals, my.com email accounts will only be accessible through the MyMail app. Instead of using a login and password, MyMail users attach their email to their mobile phone number and receive a text message with an access code when they want to sign in.…
Read MoreDoes the world really need another email platform? At least one veteran founder thinks so
Email is a bane and a boon and it keeps growing. Email and its sheer size and scope keeps attracting founders - young and old - who are lured by the potential riches. Javier Soltero, co-founder and CEO of Acompli, thinks he has what it takes to win.…
Read MoreOpen-Xchange wants to help service providers take on Dropbox and Skype
The company, which sells Google Apps-rivalling software to telcos and hosting outfits (and offers it all free to the open source crowd), has unveiled OX Drive and a new communications app based on WebRTC technology.…
Read MoreFinding the path to post-desktop email that works
We're still tethered to our desktop email clients and our desks to handle much of complicated emails. How can we improve the medium to make it more mobile?…
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