March 24, 2005

Yahoo jumps on 1 gigabyte email band wagon
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After months of media hype surrounding Google's full scale launch of the 1 gigabyte email service called Gmail, Internet Giant, Yahoo has jumped on the 1 gigabyte band wagon, taking some shine off Google's Gmail.

The Sunnyvale-based company yesterday revealed plans to increase free email storage from 250MB to 1 gigabyte, the new mail box size will be available by Mid April.

"They're removing storage as one of the deciding factors" when people chose a e-mail service, said Charlene Li, an analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc.

When Google's exclusive (requires invite) Gmail email service was launched about a year ago it forced Yahoo's hand to increase mailbox size from 4MB and according to Kelsey Group analyst Greg Sterling Google's Gmail killed any hope MSN or Yahoo! may have had of getting users to pay for mail storage," . Yahoo will also provide software from Symantec Corp. to clean viruses detected in attachments

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