What better week to announce such a study about your email address than the weekend of the American Psychological Association (APA) national convention?

Reports say French email has ended, in another word Courriel is the new word for French Email.

Last night, Google unveiled something called "Gmail Labs." It can be found under your Settings tab in Gmail, as pictured above (click to see more detail). Of course, typically, this will roll out gradually to users, so you may not see it, though it went live at 6 PM PDT Thursday night, so most should have it by now.

As we become a less and less private society, helped by the web, data breaches, and the like, the question actually should be raised: is anything really private any longer? Certainly, based on Proofpoint's fifth annual report on Outbound Email Security and Data Loss Prevention, you shouldn't be expecting any privacy in your work email as 41 percent of large U.S. corporations monitor employee email.

As hard as it may be to believe, according to a study by research firm Parks Associates, nearly 20% of the population of the United States is disconnected from the Internet and has never used email. In their annual phone survey of U.S. households, Parks Associates found 20 million households are without Internet access, approximately 18% of the U.S.

Xobni, the startup that brings the social network to your inbox, has just announced the launch of their public beta, which begins today. We covered Xobni back in January, calling the software "ingenious" because of its ability to tap into the biggest, yet often hidden, social network that everyone utilizes - email.

If you are an SBC/AT&T Yahoo! DSL customer who is having difficulty using Mail.app or Entourage to send messages involving personal or business email accounts not affiliated with an AT&T-owned domain like sbcglobal.net or pacbell.net, you are not alone.

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