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Marketers Hate New Gmail Format
Marketers Hate
New Gmail Format
Aug 16, 2013 9:39 AM CDT

Marketers Hate New Gmail Format

They fear their pitches are getting lost

(Newser) - Gmail users might still be getting used to the ins and outs of their reorganized email sorting, but retailers have seen enough to know they hate it. Generally speaking, marketers fear email pitches are getting lost as they're now diverted by default from a user's primary inbox to...

NSA's Spying Includes Most US Emails That Cross Border

Anything going abroad about foreign targets intercepted

(Newser) - The NSA is poring over pretty much all emails and texts sent across the border by Americans to look for information that might raise red flags, the New York Times reports. The revelation means that the NSA's surveillance of Americans is broader than was previously known: It's not...

NSA: Search Our Own Emails? Sorry, No Can Do
NSA: Search Our Own
Emails? We Actually Can't
propublica
Jul 23, 2013 2:46 PM CDT

NSA: Search Our Own Emails? We Actually Can't

ProPublica's Freedom of Information Act request gets the brush-off

(Newser) - The NSA's mighty information-gathering powers apparently do not extend to its own employees' inboxes. ProPublica filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the spy agency, asking for all emails between its employees and the National Geographic Channel, which has aired some decidedly NSA-friendly documentaries. The agency refused, saying...

Feds Are Keeping an Eye on Your Snail Mail, Too

USPS has two main tools for law enforcement, says New York Times

(Newser) - Creeped out by all this talk of metadata and Big Brother and the fear that your emails aren't as private as you thought? Well, at least there's good old snail mail, right? Not so much, reports the New York Times . It looks at two programs the US Postal...

More Revelations: Feds Collected Bulk Email Data

Another 'Guardian' story hits, reveals more metadata collection

(Newser) - The revelations about the NSA's surveillance operations just keep coming. The Guardian has yet another piece revealing that the government spent a decade collecting bulk email data, in much the same way it collected bulk cellphone data . As with the cellphone data, the government collected metadata, meaning information on...

IRS Might Be Peeking at Emails Without Warrants

ACLU calls for a clear explanation of policy

(Newser) - It's probably not wise to talk about all your deep, dark tax-dodging secrets via email, but if you do, know that the IRS might be poking into them without a warrant. So says the ACLU, which complains that it can't get a straight answer from the agency about...

Faculty Furious After Harvard Snoops in Email Accounts

Administrators sought source of leak on cheating

(Newser) - Harvard faculty members are fuming over word that the university quietly searched 16 resident deans' email accounts following a cheating scandal . Administrators were investigating how an internal memo responding to the scandal was leaked to the media, the New York Times reports. "People are just bewildered at this point,...

&#39;Threat&#39; to Woodward Wasn&#39;t Very Threatening
 'Threat' to 
 Woodward 
 Wasn't Very 
 Threatening 
PLUS, REACTION ROUNDUP
Feb 28, 2013 12:04 PM CST

'Threat' to Woodward Wasn't Very Threatening

White House email released, pundits scoff

(Newser) - People took notice yesterday when Bob Woodward told CNN that the White House had warned him that he would "regret" his sequester comments , seemingly implying that officials had threatened him. Well Politico has gotten its hands on the email Woodward was referring to—and it's not terribly threatening....

Bye-Bye Hotmail, Hello Outlook.com

Big change for Microsoft email services

(Newser) - Say farewell to a huge relic of the 1990s: Microsoft is shutting down Hotmail and "upgrading" Hotmail users to its just-launched Outlook.com service. But don't worry, you don't have to give up your spicegurrrl1983@hotmail.com account; Hotmail users will be allowed to retain their email addresses...

Confusion Surrounds New Jersey's Email Vote

New Yorkers allowed to vote anywhere

(Newser) - The storm-battered people of New Jersey are the first large group of domestic voters to be allowed to vote by email , but the move is causing plenty of confusion, Politico finds. The state's top election official now says people who vote by email or fax will also need to...

Luxe Hotel Mistakenly CC's Couple on Snooty Rejection

They're not our 'type of people,' says errant email

(Newser) - A British couple who wanted to have their wedding at a ritzy five-star hotel found out in a not-so-pleasant way it wasn't going to happen—the hotel's wedding planner sent off this email to her boss and accidentally cc'd the couple:
  • "I know this probably doesn'
...

Email Trove Reveals 'Drunk, Despondent' Jacko

Singer was 'emotionally paralyzed mess': promoter

(Newser) - Another side to the story of Michael Jackson's final months is emerging, thanks to 250 pages of emails obtained by the Los Angeles Times . They reveal concerns over a singer plagued by "paranoia, anxiety, and obsessive-like behavior," as the director of Jackson's planned London shows wrote...

Stop With Those Awful Exclamation Points

Steve Macone says they replace real friendliness

(Newser) - Who could hate a friendly little punctuation mark? Steve Macone could, and does, even though he's addicted to using it. "I've come to hate" exclamation points in texts and emails, he writes at Salon . "'See you at 1:00 for the meeting,' I type,...

80% of Workers Tied to Job&mdash;at Home
 80% of Workers 
 Tied to Job—at Home 
STUDY SAYS
Jul 3, 2012 6:02 AM CDT

80% of Workers Tied to Job—at Home

Extra time adds up to nearly an extra work day per week

(Newser) - Mobile devices are keeping huge numbers of workers chained to the office in their downtime, according to a study by Good Technology . Some 80% of workers polled by the company said they kept working after leaving the office mainly by answering calls and emails, and half of those said they...

Facebook Replaces Emails in Apple Contact Lists

Apple products prone to sudden email address invasion

(Newser) - Users of Apple products had better check their contact lists, because Facebook has flooded some of them with @Facebook email addresses, CNET reports. Seems that Apple's new iOS 6 Facebook integration allows the social media giant to alter address books in your phone or computer without any consent. Worse,...

Facebook Just Replaced Your Email
 Facebook Just 
 Replaced Your Email
but you can fix it
Jun 25, 2012 2:20 PM CDT

Facebook Just Replaced Your Email

Gizmodo fumes over Facebook's 'ham-handed' move

(Newser) - Never liked Facebook's @facebook.com email address enough to use it? Well Facebook just changed your mind for you, making it the default email account listed on your profile. The folks at Gizmodo are fuming, and show how to undo Big Brother's handiwork. Just go to your Timeline,...

Hacker: I Got Into Romney's Personal Email

Campaign says authorities are investigating

(Newser) - A novice hacker tells Gawker that he or she got into at least two of Mitt Romney's personal email accounts in simple fashion. It looks to be true, given the Romney campaign's statement that the "proper authorities are investigating this crime," notes AP . The trick? The...

New End-of-Life Planning: Social Media Wills

Feds want you to plan what happens to your online profile

(Newser) - Social networking has already changed our lives; now, officials want us to consider its implications after our death. On its blog, the US government is calling on Americans to create "social media wills," which detail our wishes for the future of the huge range of online accounts we...

Judge: Yeah, I Sent Racist Obama Email

Montana's top judge Richard Cebull caught forwarding joke

(Newser) - It always seems like a good idea at the time: Open stupid email forward at work, guffaw under your breath, forward it on to a couple of buddies. Except when you're a federal judge. On your official email. And the content of the email takes a not-so-subtle racist jab...

Errant Click Crashes German Parliament's Email

'Babette' will think twice next time

(Newser) - Another entry in the "reply to all" fail category: A staffer in the German Parliament brought the government's email system to a standstill for about a half-hour after accidentally including all 4,032 co-workers in an email loop, reports Reuters . After the employee named Babette sent her email—...

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