Email News & Articles

The rollercoaster success story of Mailbox, acquired by Dropbox after barely a month in existence, should get heavy email users excited as the iPad version of the app arrives to save their in-box. 

Its only been one week since Google I/O, but already some of the functionality that was announced by Google is being offered by third-party vendors. Today, it’s OrangeScape, which is offering a number of quick action buttons in its KiSSFLOW workflow builder.

Following the acquisition of StreamOnce, which was announced in the Q1 earnings at the end of April, Jive Software has already started releasing products around the buy. Today, it announces the release of StreamOnce that ultimately will bring a whole pile of major business applications into a single place.

Digital marketing service provider Silverpop, which boasts a complete marketing platform with email, social, mobile and marketing automation tools has announced a new app for its collection: Email Insights. This app is designed to help marketers create better emails and email campaigns with a previewing feature that shows how the message will look on different devices and email channels.

As the nature of the workplace changes, so does its tools. One tool that continues to change as the digital workplace becomes more collaborative, mobile and social is the productivity app.

The move form Hotmail to Outlook.com is over. It's official. According to a post on the Microsoft Office blog, everyone on Hotmail has been upgraded and everyone that doesn't already have access to the features Microsoft has been adding over the past months will be given access in the coming months.

In social enterprise circles, it has become fashionable to dismiss email as the way of the past and not the path to the future.

In another small step forward for Outlook.com, Microsoft has announced that it is making Skype available through the Outlook.com interface. However, unless you are part of a small group of people in the UK that have been offered access to a small beta test, you will have to wait until a little bit later in the year for the new functionality.

Virtualization provider VMware has updated its Socialcast social network with instant messaging, project management and admin controls in the product's latest release.

In light of the ongoing change-over from Hotmail to Outlook.com, news from Microsoft that it has upgrade its Outlook.com app for Android.

As companies adopt new tools to help turn themselves into social businesses, why not build on the digital tool everyone already uses -- email? That’s the question IBM must have been asking, and this week it announced “the industry’s first fully integrated social mail solution.” 

If you live in the Northeast, odds are that you looked out your window a couple of weeks ago and saw snow falling from the sky. Parts of the region were buried under more than three feet of the white stuff, paralyzing the population. The bright side of any blizzard is that the snow, no matter how much, eventually melts away. The same is not the case for email.

 Trouble with Outlook.com is now in its second day as Microsoft struggles to resume service to many users, spread around the world. 

In an increasingly omni-channel world, email remains a key method of communication. Yet, while over half of all welcome emails get opened, after merely a few of months, the open rate tends to decline to around 20 percent. 

In December we took a look at Microsoft’s Hotmail email replacement service Outlook.com to see how it was coming along. At the time Microsoft said that about 25 million people had made the jump with a lot more getting ready. Two months later, users number 60 million, the new service is out of Preview and able to scale to one billion users.