Yahoo To Offer 1GB E-Mail

Yahoo! is quadrupling the amount of storage provided with its free e-mail accounts and upgrading its desktop search software to compete with Google and Microsoft.

” Yahoo said late Tuesday that it will provide 1 gigabyte of storage for each free e-mail account. The current limit is 250 megabytes. The expanded storage will be available in mid-April, said BradGarlinghouse, Yahoo’s vice president of communications products.

The Sunnyvale-based company also is expanding the reach of its desktop software, a test product designed to find material stored on computer hard drives. Yahoo’s software, licensed from X1 Technologies, will now index content from e-mail address books and discussions in Yahoo’s instant messaging service. “

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Source: Associated Press

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