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NMPolitics.net
April 27, 2018
Days before federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials announced more than 100 arrests from an undercover operation in Albuquerque in 2016, the sting's lead agent was thinking about who, exactly, had been arrested. “If anybody ever asks if we are going after the worst of the worst or righteousÃâà...
GCN.com
April 27, 2018
The Air Force recently awarded a $1 billion cloud migration contract -- not for an aircraft-related system, but for email. Not to be outdone, the Office of Management and Budget is forming an interagency taskforce to standardize email requirements based on the recommendation of the American TechnologyÃâà...
USA TODAY High School Sports
April 27, 2018
USA TODAY High School Sports has a weekly column on the college recruiting process. Here, you'll find practical tips and real-world advice on becoming a better recruit to maximize your opportunities to play at the college level. Jason Smith is a former NCAA DIII athlete and college coach at all threeÃâà...
CNNMoney
April 27, 2018
Click the lock icon in the bottom right corner of any email you're composing. A pop-up window will give you the option to pick when it expires, from one day to five years. If you know the recipient's phone number, you can add an extra layer of security by requiring them to enter an SMS passcode to read yourÃâà...
Campaigns & Elections
April 27, 2018
Email strategy was trending toward short copy blaring urgent demands with arbitrary deadlines. Now one of the campaigns highlighting the trend toward longer emails is Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke's Senate campaign. The candidate has pushed for longer, photo-laden missives to his email list.
Nextgov
April 27, 2018
The federal government is now using anti-phishing security on its emails at a higher rate than any major industry sector, according to a report released Thursday. The study from the email security firm ValiMail comes roughly six months after the Homeland Security Department mandated the email securityÃâà...
Motherboard
April 27, 2018
I am not the best at responding to emails, primarily because, like many of us, I get a lot of them. I have 331,000 unread emails in my personal Gmail inbox and 58,000 in my VICE email inbox, a number that my girlfriend recently described as “a lot of emails.” As my dear friend Emanuel Maiberg wroteÃâà...
Wired.co.uk
April 26, 2018
A few things are so basic, such as buttons on the email previews themselves to delete, mark as them read or forward them, it's surprising that it's taken Google so long to add them in. Meanwhile, Yahoo Mail, once the most tired of all the major email providers, lets you check out attachments by hovering overÃâà...
The indy100
April 23, 2018
First, congratulations are in order! We have now completed our third full week of producing over 2000 Model 3 vehicles. The first week was 2020, the second was 2070 and we just completed 2250 last week, along with 2000 Model S/X vehicles. Thanks for being such a kickass team and accomplishingÃâà...
The Sun
April 23, 2018
A CARDIFF restaurant has been slammed after it shared the personal details of a diner that didn't turn up for their reservation. Bully's Restaurant in Pontcanna posted a picture of diner Emily Quinlan's name, phone number and email address to almost 9,000 followers from their Twitter account after she didÃâà...
OregonLive.com
April 23, 2018
The story's coda arrived via email, symbolic given how the tale began with an old-fashioned handwritten letter delivered to a Southeast Portland home 40 years too late. As I read the email, I was reminded of how easy it is for all of us to forget that the people who shaped our lives as children were onceÃâà...
Business MattersBusiness Matters
April 23, 2018
There are a lot of important areas in the business world, but there are not many more important or essential than email. Since the inception of the internet, email has pretty much been the one constant, especially in business terms. However, with the way the world is changing and evolving these days,Ãâà...
Patently-O
April 23, 2018
I'm happy to announce that we're moving our Patently-O Daily Review Email to a new provider – MailChimp. We have been using Google's FEEDBURNER, but that service has continued to degrade over time. The new version should be easier to read on all devices. About 25,000 folks are signed-up toÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 21, 2018
Democratic Party sues Trump, Russia, WikiLeaks over 2016 email hack. The new civil suit, which is unrelated to Robert Mueller's probe, takes a page from the DNC's response to the Watergate break-in. by Alex Seitz-Wald / Apr.20.2018 / 4:26 PM ET / Updated Apr.21.2018 / 11:33 AM ETÃâà...
The Register
April 20, 2018
On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's Friday column in which readers share tales of tricky tech support tasks. This week meet “Sam” who “used to work for one of those zombie web companies that limped along after the dotcom bubble burst because no-one had told it that it should be dead.”.
Harvard Business Review
April 9, 2018
It's easy to feel overwhelmed with the crush of email. In fact, one study showed the average professional spends 4.1 hours per day responding to work messages. During a recent time tracking exercise, I discovered I'm actually at the low end of the spectrum, spending about 1.35 hours per day on email.
CleanTechnica
March 31, 2018
A recently revealed internal email, from Tesla Senior Vice President of Engineering Doug Fields to employees at the company, featured the comment that daily production rates were now “well into the 200's on every single line.” That is, the Model S, Model X, and Model 3 production lines were all nowÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 31, 2018
Customers of Halfords received an unwelcome seasonal surprise in their inboxes on Friday, after a marketing email advertising DIY products appeared to make light of the death of Christ. The email's subject line, which read “Nail your projects this Easter”, was taken by many to be a pun on the Crucifixion ofÃâà...
Computerworld
March 31, 2018
Nathan Schneider, a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado, said it best: “Email is the most resilient social network on the internet ... and the thing that allows it to adapt is that it's an open protocol, and people build apps on top of it, and we evolve how we use it.” Let me explain why email isÃâà...
The Sun Chronicle
March 31, 2018
REHOBOTH — State Rep. Steven Howitt acknowledged Friday that he shared a constituent's email with a lobbyist, but said he did it to get more information about the energy issues raised by the constituent. The email came from a woman associated with a group of residents in Rehoboth fighting against aÃâà...
AppleInsider
March 30, 2018
MyFitnessPal data breach exposes email addresses, passwords of 150M accounts ... A subsequent investigation into the matter suggests the nefarious actor or actors made off with information including usernames, email addresses and passwords, many of which were secured with the bcrypt hashingÃâà...
ABC15 Arizona
March 30, 2018
Denver, CO - This data hack is huge -- 1.4 billion passwords are now floating around on the dark web. In December, a massive data leak was discovered, and many computer gurus are capable of accessing the information, said cybersecurity expert Dan Petro. "Certainly like one of the biggest passwordÃâà...
DutchNews.nl
March 30, 2018
Up to 3.3 Dutch million email addresses and passwords are circulating online and have now been made available by a hacker, the AD reported on Friday. The paper had access to the database which contained 1.4 billion email addresses and passwords from around the world and found information aboutÃâà...
Deadline
March 30, 2018
Mailchimp announced its policy change in an email to users, and has already begun shutting down accounts, including some from tech journalists and analysts who cover the nascent blockchain and cryptocurrency industries. The move comes on the heels of advertising bans from Facebook, Google andÃâà...
Gizmodo
March 30, 2018
An encrypted email service widely used among journalists and political dissidents just got several new sick features, including, let's be honest, the only thing we really ... ProtonMail users can now activate a @pm.me domain name and use it with the same @protonmail.com email account they already have.
ZDNet
March 29, 2018
In his email to the company's employees, Myerson said he had been discussing his departure with CEO Satya Nadella "for some time." He said his next priorities are to train for a half Ironman, learn to play piano or guitar, and learn more about genomics and robotics, plus spend more time with his family.
Inc.com
March 29, 2018
In his book, Work Rules Insights From Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead, Laszlo Bock (Google's former SVP of People) highlighted an internal pilot project that set out to determine the best way to increase Noogler (new Googlers) productivity. The experiment included an email theÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 29, 2018
Lazio have reportedly fallen for an email scam and paid two million euros ($2.4m) of the final instalment for defender Stefan de Vrij's transfer from Dutch club Feyenoord to fraudsters. Italian newspaper Il Tempo reported on Wednesday that hackers with knowledge of the deal tricked the Serie A club intoÃâà...
The Times
March 29, 2018
Schools across the country took precautionary lockdown measures or were evacuated after a hoax email threatened a terrorist attack yesterday afternoon. An 18-year-old man, from Abbots Langley, in Hertfordshire, was detained by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Hertfordshire police on suspicion ofÃâà...
WQAD.com
March 29, 2018
Since 2010, Starbucks has asked that customers only their accept terms and conditions to gain access to free internet, GeekWire reports. Now, the Seattle-based coffee giant is testing a new process that will require customers first provide their email address. They believe that providing an email address willÃâà...
MLive.com
March 29, 2018
WALKER, MI -- A 15-year-old former student of the West Michigan Academy of Environmental Science is accused of making an email threat that caused the school to dismiss early, police said. Walker police late Wednesday, March 28 said they identified the 15-year-old through their investigation and heÃâà...
SC Magazine
March 29, 2018
Ten tips to help determine whether email is legitimate or the work of phishing attacks. Phishing has become one of the most pervasive problems facing data security staffs today. Generally speaking, a basic phishing attack is relatively easy to conduct and inexpensive for the attacker. More sophisticatedÃâà...
MarTech Today
March 29, 2018
Despite a multitude of online channels available for businesses to communicate with their customers, Salesforce continues to invest in one of the oldest: email. The CRM company unveiled its Marketing Cloud Content Block Software Developer Kit (SDK) on Wednesday morning. Developers can use theÃâà...
ABC2 News
March 29, 2018
"Second party authentication is so important to protect your email privacy, but it's also important for anywhere you're using for the reset of your email. Like if you want to reset your password use a second party authentication site, which means no one can sign into that email without you first getting a code,Ãâà...
CNN
March 29, 2018
Rafael Espinal, a city council member from Brooklyn, introduced a bill last week that would make it illegal for businesses to contact employees via email or instant message when employees are off work. The "Disconnecting From Work" bill would only apply to businesses with 10 or more employees andÃâà...
Entrepreneur
March 29, 2018
On a well-maintained email list, the bounce rate should be small -- ideally, about one percent or less. MailChimp, a large email services provider, tracked millions of emails and found the typical bounce rate was around a little under one percent. A bounce rate of eight percent or above means either the list isÃâà...
Fast Company
March 28, 2018
In France, even before the recent law passed, some employers already set hours for email; at the Kedge Business School, anyone who sent an email after 7 p.m. got an auto-response saying that it was “out of schedule.” In the U.S., the healthcare consulting firm Vynamic encourages employees not only toÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 25, 2018
Women are angry. The #MeToo movement has broken a deafening silence to expose Harvey Weinstein and others like him. It has shone a light on male predators who exercise their power to sexually harass, humiliate, bully, discriminate and feed off female vulnerability. The response from workplaceÃâà...
The Hill (blog)
March 25, 2018
Jennifer Palmieri writes in her upcoming book that Clinton wanted to address the issue, but her campaign team urged against it, according to The Washington Post, which obtained excerpts of the book. “It was a mistake, although at the time it was hard to accept that telling Hillary to keep bringing up theÃâà...
Komando
March 25, 2018
I received this scam email myself. Fortunately, I was able to recognize the fact that it's a fraud before being duped. If you've ever made a purchase through iTunes, you know that Apple emails you a receipt following the purchase. What's happening now is, scammers are creating fraudulent emails pretendingÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 24, 2018
Sheila O'Connor's love of written letters was the impetus for her new middle-grade novel, “Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth.” Set in a small Minnesota town in 1968, during the height of the Vietnam War, the story is made up of correspondence between feisty 11-year-old Maureen “Reenie” Kelly and Mr.
GolfDigest.com
March 24, 2018
Say what you want about the media, but give them thanks for shedding light on this work of art. Several outlets filed a public records request regarding the University of Tennessee's infamous coaching search for its football program, one that led to the firing of athletic director John Currie after just eightÃâà...
MarTech Series
March 24, 2018
AI and personalization are definitely on the horizon for email marketers in 2018! According to the Email Marketing Industry Census 2017, by Econsultancy in association with Adestra, optimizing mobile email is the most trending technology for marketers to acquire, engage and retain their customers. With aÃâà...
MLive.com
March 24, 2018
Another student, 11 or 12 years old, police said, is suspected of sending a racially-charged email to several middle school students on Jan. 29. The separate cases have been forwarded to Washtenaw County prosecutors for review, police said. Six students received the Jan. 29 email laden with racial slursÃâà...
KKTV 11 News
March 24, 2018
The email, with strong white-supremacist tones, also makes derogatory comments about two african-american deans at Colorado College. The college's senior associate dean of students, Rochelle Mason, is named for her involvement in the displinary actions taken against Pryor. Mike Edmonds, dean ofÃâà...
Greater Wilmington Business Journal
March 24, 2018
Any wider and you run the risk that your email will look strange. Do not use background images – they don't render reliably across all email platforms. If background images are necessary, make sure you have a fallback color. Use web-safe fonts, such as Arial, Helvetica or Tahoma. Non-system fonts will notÃâà...
GeekWire
March 23, 2018
Customers can unsubscribe from the email newsletters and still access WiFi, the company said. Starbucks likes to bill its 28,000 worldwide stores as a “third place” — a location between home and work where customers can drink coffee, eat food, have meetings, do work, relax, and more. Those who useÃâà...
CNN
March 23, 2018
(CNN) National security adviser H.R. McMaster has agreed to resign and will be replaced by former US ambassador and Fox News analyst John Bolton, President Donald Trump announced in a tweet on Thursday. Here is the letter McMaster sent to the National Security Council announcing his departure:.
WTAE Pittsburgh
March 23, 2018
Starbucks will roll out a new requirement for customers who want to access free Wi-Fi at any of its more than 27,000 locations. The Seattle-based chain introduced free Wi-Fi eight years ago, asking users to accept its terms and conditions before logging on. Advertisement. Now, coffee drinkers will have toÃâà...
MarTech Series
March 23, 2018
Email is one of the few marketing channels that do not depend on a third party company algorithms. It gives you complete control over who will see your message, what your target audience will read, and when the communication will take place. In other words, email allows you to speak to your potentialÃâà...
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