[Tobias Turesson]

Hotmail gives 250Mb e-mail,
competes with Yahoo, Google.

IN what seems to be a trend among e-mail providers, MSN Hotmail has announced that it will start offering 250Mb worth of storage space to new e-mail subscribers starting July.

MSN Hotmail, owned by software giant Microsoft Corp., will also port and upgrade the storage of more than 170 million e-mail subscribers by the end of the year, from a measly 2Mb to 250Mb.

In addition, its premium e-mail service offering -- MSN Hotmail Plus -- will also be upgraded from 10Mb to a whopping 2Gb of storage, which will cost 19.95 dollars per year.

http://www.inq7.net/inf/2004/jun/25/inf_7-1.htm