[Privacy fundamentalists want to outlaw Google's Gmail. But without Gmail's existence -- and the competitive threat it poses -- millions of people who use Yahoo's free service would have had to continue to squeeze their correspondence into a tiny 4 MB. (That's the size of one six-megapixel RAW image from a Canon 10D.) Low-income people and folks from developing countries rely on free email services -- this competition is a particular boon to them. If the left-leaning privacy fundamentalists were true to their creed, they'd applaud Gmail rather than clamoring to ban it. --Declan] http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5212262.html Yahoo boosts free e-mail storage to 100MB Last modified: May 13, 2004, 2:53 PM PDT By Jim Hu Web portal Yahoo will begin offering "virtually unlimited storage" for its paid e-mail customers and will upgrade free users to 100MB, an executive said Thursday. The upgrade is part of an overall enhancement for Yahoo Mail that will launch this summer. Besides additional storage, the service will get a face-lift and tie in more Yahoo-branded services, such as Photos and Messenger. The announcement comes a month after search rival Google said it would launch a free e-mail service called Gmail that offers 1GB of storage, considerably more space than free versions of Yahoo Mail and Microsoft's Hotmail. Yahoo currently offers 4MB of storage to free users of its e-mail service. [...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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