Unlimited email storage @ Yahoo
Yahoo plans to offer unlimited e-mail storage to
its roughly quarter of a billion users, starting in May.
Yahoo plans to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its roughly quarter of a billion users, starting in May.The world’s biggest e-mail service said Tuesday that it would scrap its free e-mail storage limit of one gigabyte, or about a billion bytes of data, responding to explosive growth in attachment sizes as people share ever more photos, music and videos via e-mail.
Officials said the decision to remove e-mail storage limits reflects the plunging cost of storage as new personal computers store up to a trillion bytes of data and owners of 80-gigabyte iPods can carry 100 hours of video in their pockets.
By contrast, when Yahoo first introduced its e-mail service a little under a decade ago, it capped individual storage at four megabytes per user. At that time, an “ultra high-density” floppy disk for personal computers then held 1.44 megabytes.
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Posted: Wed - March 28, 2007 at 10:50 PM