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Google has created a special version of its Gmail e-mail service that provides mobile phone subscribers with quick access to their e-mail, the company said on Friday.
Details on the mobile e-mail service, which currently is only available to U.S. cellphone users at http://m.gmail.com.
The service works on the subset of more advanced mobile phones that offer an Internet browser. Users can view attached photos and documents from their phone, and reply-by-call to people whose phone number is stored in their Gmail account.
Gmail messages are automatically synchronized between their mobile phones and computer accounts, regardless of whether Gmail is accessed from Gmail Mobile or the Web.

Google Mobile GMail

News source: Reuters

Google has created a special version of its Gmail e-mail service that provides mobile phone subscribers with quick access to their e-mail, the company said on Friday.
Details on the mobile e-mail service, which currently is only available to U.S. cellphone users at http://m.gmail.com.
The service works on the subset of more advanced mobile phones that offer an Internet browser. Users can view attached photos and documents from their phone, and reply-by-call to people whose phone number is stored in their Gmail account.
Gmail messages are automatically synchronized between their mobile phones and computer accounts, regardless of whether Gmail is accessed from Gmail Mobile or the Web.

Google Mobile GMail

News source: Reuters

Yahoo Inc. is more than doubling its limits on free e-mail storage in its latest move to combat two of its biggest rivals, Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

E-mail accountholders will get up to 250 megabytes of free storage effective Monday, up from 100 megabytes previously offered by Sunnyvale-based Yahoo. The change follows Microsoft’s recent decision to boost the free storage on its Hotmail service to 250 megabytes per account.

Both Yahoo and Hotmail have dramatically increased their storage limits since Google rolled out its free e-mail service offering in April. The Google service, called Gmail, offers each accountholder up to 1,000 megabytes of e-mail storage.

Yahoo, which runs the world’s most popular Web site, is hoping the improvements will retain its current e-mail users and perhaps lure converts from other services.

Unlike Yahoo’s e-mail service and Hotmail, Gmail remains in a test mode and is available only through invitations from Google or existing accountholders.

“Gmail is an interesting competitor,” said Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo’s vice president of communications products. “It really has raised the game for everyone and that’s good for consumers.”

Besides increasing storage limits, Yahoo says it has upgraded the tools for verifying the identities of e-mailers and improved the features used to search e-mail content.

Yahoo promotes itself as the largest provider of free e-mail, with tens of millions of users. The company declined to offer precise numbers.

News source: ABCNews

Hot on the heels of its big storage boost, MSN is rolling out so-called “life management” features like calendaring, task lists, notes, and reminders to users of its free e-mail service.The new features, which were previously only available to paying customers, take a page from Microsoft’s desktop mail application, Outlook. They’re also very similar to what’s offered for free by MSN competitor Yahoo!

The upgrade, originally announced with the increased storage plans back in June, will be rolled out to more than 180 million free Hotmail users around the world. It launches on Tuesday and will continue over the next couple of days.

MSN won’t be serving any ads on the pageviews the additional features will generate. Instead, the roll-out is a move to build greater user loyalty to the MSN brand.

“MSN’s goal with these Hotmail improvements is to insure that customers are increasingly satisfied with the world’s largest free Web e-mail system,” said Brooke Richardson, product manager for MSN, in a statement.

The online calendar features the ability to send meeting requests, as well as to share calendar entries with family and friends. Icons and color coding allow users to keep track of different types of appointments.

The tasks function lets users to keep track of to-do items and includes reminders, which can go to users’ e-mail addresses or to their mobile phones via SMS messaging. Reminders can also be set up independently of tasks.

Notes let users store important information online, so it can be accessed from any PC with a browser.

The imminent debut of Google’s 1 gigabyte free e-mail service, Gmail, currently in beta, has upped the ante among Web-based e-mail players. Yahoo! was first to step up to the challenge, offering a re-design and 100 megabytes of storage for its free service. Paying Yahoo! customers get 2 gigabytes. Hotmail in June announced it would begin giving free e-mail users 250 megabytes and paying customers 2 gigabytes.

News Source : clickz

Microsoft’s MSN Hotmail, a free Web-based e-mail service, has tightened restrictions on daily outbound messages sent by subscribers, a tactic it says will help curb spam.

The Redmond, Wash.-based company on Friday said that Hotmail subscribers are now limited to sending only 100 messages a day “in an effort to prevent spammers from using Hotmail to spread spam,” said Lisa Gurry, MSN lead product manager. The change, made last week, should affect only about 1 percent of its nearly 110 million worldwide users, based on historical usage data, Gurry said.

“The higher the limit is, the more likely that the service can be used for spam, so we found that 99 percent of Hotmail users would find this new limit perfectly acceptable,” she said.

Imposing rate limits on e-mail usage is fairly common among Internet service providers as a way to stop bulk messages before they’re ferried on their networks, anti-spam advocates say. But as effective as it can be to trip up potential spammers, it can also occasionally frustrate legitimate mailers who may be sending, for example, a party invitation or political message to friends. Other Web-based mail services, including Yahoo, also have outbound rate limits.

MSN has been on a tear of late fighting junk mail, as the amount of it bogging down e-mail networks and subscriber inboxes has grown to outlandish proportions. ISPs estimate that it has risen by more than 500 percent in the past 18 months.

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