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Credit to Author: Kathryn Cave| Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 07:42:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite the constant announcements that email is dead \u2013 or, at least, about to die \u2013 it is still the most common form of workplace communication. Now, Swiss company Gmelius<\/a>, which launched in 2016, believes it has come up with a way to counteract some of email\u2019s shortcomings and make it better.<\/p>\n Gmelius offers a service that overlays the various Gmail offerings. There are three pricing tiers available \u2013 from free to a full business offering \u2013 and the most professional option uses blockchain to authenticate communications. This spring, the company \u00a0also plans to introduce a new way to sign email attachments using smart contracting.<\/p>\n We spoke to CEO and founder, Florian Bersier, to learn more in this lightly edited Q&A.<\/p>\n Overall this seems like a service that professionalizes Gmail and makes it more like Outlook, would you agree?<\/strong><\/p>\n “The motivation behind Gmelius comes from a simple and very straightforward observation; email is almost 50 years old and was never designed to meet the large and diverse set of purposes it is currently used for.<\/p>\n To continue reading this article register now<\/p>\n Learn More<\/a> Existing Users Sign In<\/a> <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Credit to Author: Kathryn Cave| Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 07:42:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite the constant announcements that email is dead \u2013 or, at least, about to die \u2013 it is still the most common form of workplace communication. Now, Swiss company Gmelius<\/a>, which launched in 2016, believes it has come up with a way to counteract some of email\u2019s shortcomings and make it better.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n