"e-mail" news, interviews, and features

News about e-mail

• Microsoft presses 'Send': a new mobile app for quick office communications

  Synced with Outlook, the tool requires no subject line, salutation or signature

• Outlook for iOS and Android gives Office 365 users a more secure sign-in option

  The changes add support for two-factor authentication, and don't require users give the app their password

• Why investors are so excited about Slack

  The enterprise-software startup's valuation has gone from $1.12 billion to $2.8 billion in six short months

• Google gives Apps admins more control over their files and docs

  One of the new features allows IT pros to disable the ability to print, donwload and copy certain files

• Microsoft beefs up Office 365's Delve, aims to complete its rollout by May

  Delve, the first application that taps the Office Graph machine learning engine, was announced a year ago

• Yahoo puts email encryption plugin source code up for review

  The company hopes to have it in action by year end

Features about e-mail

• The never-ending quest to dethrone email

  Pretenders to the messaging throne have been many, but email still reigns. Here's how that might change

• First look: Microsoft Outlook 2015 promises few new features but better performance

  Here's what we found when we tested it

• Google Apps, once a leader, faces growing Cloud app rivals

  Analysts say it needs to improve its unified communications and enterprise social efforts or risk being left behind

• Email addiction: Why the enterprise can't break free

  Email in the enterprise isn't going anywhere - or more precisely, it isn't going anywhere but up

• Deploying hybrid cloud email: What you need to know

  Important considerations when evaluating hybrid models

• With thick skin, Google CIO finds job rewarding

  Google CIO Ben Fried is proud to offer choice in technology to the company's users