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Glad to see this
Email-service providers Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and AOL Inc. are backing a new effort intended to dramatically reduce "phishing" emails—which attempt to trick recipients into thinking they come from a legitimate source.
The companies—along with others such as financial-service companies Bank of America Corp., FMR LLC’s Fidelity Investments and eBay Inc.’s PayPal—are hoping to create an environment that allows the recipient of an email from, say, a bank, to feel secure that it isn’t a trick.
Email Giants Move to Slash ‘Phishing’ – WSJ.com
Continue reading: Email Giants Move to Slash ‘Phishing’ – WSJ.com
More European extreme email management
Volkswagen has agreed to deactivate e-mails for its German staff members’ company BlackBerrys when they are off duty.
Under an agreement reached this week with labor representatives, staff members at Volkswagen will receive e-mails via BlackBerry from half an hour before they start work until half an hour after they finish, and will be in blackout mode the rest of the time, a spokesman for the company said.
Volkswagen Curbs Company E-Mail in Off Hours – NYTimes.com
Continue reading: Volkswagen Curbs Company E-Mail in Off Hours – NYTimes.com
No doubt Romney is now a strong advocate for e-mail retention policies…
Computer systems erased the e-mails from the administrations of Acting Governor Jane Swift and Governors Paul Cellucci and Mitt Romney because state officials did not store the contents of their accounts by backing them up on central servers, according to state officials. In the case of the Romney administration, the automatic deletions occurred despite updated 2004 state guidelines that require preservation of certain electronic records.
That includes at least four of Romney’s top Cabinet officials. Thirty days after they left office, their e-mails were automatically purged from the state’s central computers, wiping out records of decisions on an array of… Continue reading: System purged trove of e-mails automatically – Politics – The Boston Globe
Check the article link below for a pro/con snapshot of a perennial email debate. FWIW my info-slob-ish ways have been improved lately by getting everything out of email – keeping my various inboxes empty on a daily basis – and sending any email messages I want to keep (along with snapshots of noteworthy Web pages, file annotations/links, etc.) into OneNote or Evernote.
Psychologists are right: Workers must organize and delete their e-mails—or risk cluttering their mental space. Pro or con?
E-Hoarding Is Unhealthy – BusinessWeek
Continue reading: E-Hoarding Is Unhealthy – BusinessWeek
A social snapshot
Put another way: one in every four-and-a-half minutes spent on the Web is spent on a social networking site or blog. And last year the average visitor spent 66 percent more time on such sites than in 2009, when early adopters were already feeling digitally fatigued.
“I’m on tech overload,” said Ms. Lawrence, who has Facebook and LinkedIn accounts yet barely uses them anymore. “I already feel like I’m experiencing slow death by e-mail.” While she loves technology and has been experimenting with Google+ since it was introduced, “I’m having a really hard time justifying adding yet another social tool to my tool `kit,” she said.
… Continue reading: Digitally Fatigued, Networkers Try New Sites, but Strategize to Avoid Burnout – NYTimes.com
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