Ping for iPhone: does merging email and instant messaging make sense?

The battle for email is very clearly in full swing. Apps and services seem to debut every day that destroy email, or subvert it, or merely help you rearrange it. Gmail introduced tabs to help weed out newsletters, Boomerang invented a feature to help put off emails until the right time, and Hum hopes to modernize your work-related communications. These apps rethink email, but often only by replacing it with something else.


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