Email Management News & Articles

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.

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 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.

Curious about the state of email marketing? Silverpop has released the findings of its 2013 Email Marketing Benchmarks Study, which showed that email is still an effective channel for delivering personalized, dynamic messages at the right time.

The latest vendor to upgrade its products in an effort to keep up with the ever changing face of SharePoint is Colligo, which has just announced the release of Email Manager v6.0 and Colligo Briefcase v6.0.

The paperless office appears further away than ever before. According to recent research from AIIM we are using more paper records than ever before, there are still significant problems capturing and storing information for records and, even worse, senior management is sticking its head in the sand and ignoring the inherent risks in these practices.

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.

There’s nothing like the season of goodwill to bring out the best in technology giants. In the case of Microsoft and Google, just when you might have thought they couldn’t find anything else to fight over, they’ve started slinging shots at each other over email and contacts synching.

By the looks of things, we are entering the End of Days for Hotmail. In spite of this, Microsoft is still not finished tinkering under the hood of Outlook.com, Hotmail's replacement, having just introduced new security features that should improve it.

There are many conflicting opinions on the current value and future viability of email in the enterprise -- some observers have gone as far as to declare email dead as a business tool, while others acknowledge its role is changing as communications technology changes, but say it still has an important place. Process/content management solutions vendor Perceptive Software subscribes to the second theory.

Email remains the powerhouse work tool in our connected, social media enhanced lives, and that is why so many dishonest people attempt every day to trick us with seemingly legit sounding email messages.

AOL has announced a new webmail client called Alto, and it promises a way to help organize the hordes of emails most of us are unable to properly cull from our inboxes.

Secure cloud services provider Perimeter E-Security today released a new hosted version of its Archive Anywhere mailbox archive solution for Microsoft Office 365. Archive Anywhere is a cloud-based service designed to make it easy for users to view and search their entire mailbox archives anywhere, on any device.

Since last January when Office 2013 first appeared on the edge of everyone’s radar there have been continual leaks and rumors about what it would come with. Since its release last week we now know for almost definite -- we do know it is going to be a lot more social. And the announced integration with LinkedIn underlines that.

The newly released version 5.0 of the ToutApp email management/analytics platform features integrations with several leading email, social business and mobile platforms, and also includes a few new tools.