Tony Abou-Assaleh

This is getting really annoying, so I did some research. According to all the sources I could find, the proper form is e-mail (hyphenated), and at the beginning of a sentence, if you want to capitalize, it should be e-Mail (hyphenated with only M capitalized). It is a common name, not a proper name, so should not be capitalized in the middle of a sentence.

According to the style guides of “Get it Write”, IEEE, Webopedia, and the Associated Press, as well as the Merriam-Webster dictionary and the New Oxford American Dictionary, the proper spelling is e-mail. Some cite email as a possible alternative spelling.

One source stated that typical evolution of new terms removes all spaces and hyphens from the word, so email, online, and website are becoming the norm, although not official yet.

My conclusion is that although “e-mail” appears to be the correct form, “email” is also accepted, is shorter, and easier to capitalize at the beginning of a sentence. So I’m going to go with “email” as the officially correct spelling in my text moving forward.

As a side note, this means that I will treat website, webpage, and online as correct, single word nouns.

TitanFile is a Web-based service that enable businesses to communicate and share files easily and securely. Our goal is to make secure document sharing as transparent and easy as using email, if not easier. Think of TitanFile as FedEx for electronic documents: a secure and reliable method to deliver a document from the sender to the recipient, with recipient verification, delivery notification, and reporting. Our target audience are businesses and government organization who care about the security of their file and the confidentiality of their clients.

I co-founded TitanFile with Milan Vrekic, who has won the 1st place prize in the recent Best Big Idea competition for his business plan for TitanFile. The competition was organized by the Nova Scotia Co-op Council.

The service is currently in closed beta. If you’re interested in gaining early access, you can make request.

I conclude this intro with a promotional video that Milan has put together.