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• Some Yahoo Mail users menaced by zombified deleted emails

  For Yahoo Mail users, some messages just won't stay dead.

• Microsoft levels up Web version of Outlook for business customers

  Enterprise users who rely on the web interface for Microsoft Outlook email will be getting an upgrade thanks to new features.

• Google tests $2 custom Gmail addresses

  Say goodbye to that long, hard-to-remember and unprofessional Gmail address; Google is testing a $2-a-month service that lets you ditch your @Gmail addresses for custom addresses. However, custom Gmail addresses are nothing new for Google Apps for Work customers, and for just $3 a month more more (or $2.16 on annual plans) you get many more advanced features in addition to the custom addresses. In other words, Google Apps for Work plans make more sense than the new paid "Gmail for work" service for most businesses.

• Judge classifies as class action an email scanning lawsuit against Yahoo

  A lawsuit that alleges Yahoo's email scanning practices are illegal can proceed as a class action complaint, a development that will shine the spotlight on the Yahoo Mail use of messages' content for advertising purposes.

• IBM joins race to upgrade webmail interface with Verse

  Google has tried it with Inbox, Microsoft handed Outlook Web App users Delve and now, with Verse, IBM is giving webmail a fresh look as it teaches its venerable Domino mail server new tricks.

• Google said to prep billing payment service for Gmail

  Google reportedly is creating a service to let people pay their bills from their Gmail accounts.

• Mandrill warns attack may have exposed some data about email

  Mandrill warned customers on Wednesday that some email-related data may have been exposed after attackers tried to lasso some of its servers into a botnet.

• Tech groups renew push for cloud, email privacy protections

  This may finally be the year that the U.S. Congress gives email and other documents stored in the cloud for several months the same privacy protections from police searches as newer files or paper records stored in a file cabinet, say backers of electronic privacy reform.

• State Department ducks security questions about Clinton emails

  A week before former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sworn into office in January 2009, clintonemail.com was registered as domain. It became Clinton's principal email address as secretary of state, and its use was known by U.S. officials.

• Two indicted for stealing 1 billion email addresses in historic breach

  Two Vietnamese men have been indicted, with one pleading guilty, for hacking into eight U.S. email service providers and stealing 1 billion email addresses and other confidential information, resulting in what's believed to be the largest data breach in U.S. history, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

• Gmail's revised contacts page cuts down on clutter

  While users wait with bated breath to see if Google Inbox ends up becoming the new Gmail, Google has unveiled an incremental change to Gmail: a newly redesigned contacts page. It hasn't yet been rolled into Gmail proper, but is now available in preview form.

• Google, Yahoo offer online tools to keep address books current

  Google and Yahoo are both embracing the card format to help people better organize the contact information they store online.

• Google offers Gmail in Burmese language

  Google is making Gmail a little more user-friendly for Internet users in Myanmar, and has introduced Burmese language support to the email service.

• Amazon said to launch enterprise email service

  Amazon will launch an enterprise email and calendar service that competes against products from Microsoft and Google, according to the Wall Street Journal.

• Microsoft's Outlook.com faces brief man-in-the-middle attack in China

  Microsoft's Outlook.com briefly faced a "man-in-the-middle" attack in China, according to a watchdog group, following similar eavesdropping attempts against Apple and Yahoo last year.