Do you use Yahoo Briefcase? No? Well, you're not alone. In fact, so few people are using it that its shutting down entirely.
I remember awhile back coming across a post that Nick Carr did about someone who was using Amazon’s S3 remote storage service to do backups, and wound up getting a bill for a month’s worth of charges for hosting his data — and it was a single cent (the original post by Dave Gurnell is here, and Nick’s post is here).
The last time I checked my Gmail quota (actually just a few minutes ago), I was just using 45 megabytes of my 3,373 megabyte quota. So are email quotas irrelevant?
If that’s not enough, over at the Gmail blog, they’ve just mentioned “More Gmail Storage for All”
Google has given the storage counter for Gmail a little boost to its spin, but believe it or not they could be doing more.
Storage demands of modern rich media content drove Nirvanix to create a system that can handle those files, and web applications, better.
Google users can boost their available storage for Gmail and Picasa Web Albums to as much as 250GB for an annual fee.
The product formerly known as Windows Live Folders has been renamed and opened up to people in the US, UK, and India.
The global rollout of Yahoo's shift to endless email started today, with all users expected to be upgraded in the coming months.
The FON blog reprinted a letter from FON CEO Martin Varsavsky about them moving from Microsoft to Linux. It includes this portion (emphasis mine):
I'll have more to say about some of the larger issues around this in a few days, but now that the embargo has been lifted (damn you, Om Malik), I wanted to point at the pair of announcements from Yahoo! Mail today and yesterday.
iEntry 10th Anniversary
RSS
Newsletter
Advertising
