Lycos enters the email fray
p2pnet.net News:- Lycos Europe has stepped into the Yahoogle email wars with a one gig email service.
GoogleMail is still in beta and although Yahoo says it’s introducing a service with ‘virtually unlimited’ capacity by boosting the existing 6mb to 100mb, that won’t happen until the second or third quarter of this year.
‘Lycos Personal’ email will be ad free, fully secure and use the latest anti-spam and anti-virus software, says netimperative.com here.
But more important (at this stage of the proceedings, anyway) – the Lycos entrant is available right now.
“In a dig at Google’s controversial plans to deliver text ads relevant to users’ email discussions, Lycos also said it would not be using spyware and would not be building up user profiles or storing deleted emails,” says netimperative.com.
But there’s a ‘but’ and that is – it’ll cost £3.49 (about $6.18) per month.
Yahoo ‘premium’ subscribers will paying close to $50 a year for 100mb of storage.
Google’s service is, however, free and it has the added cachet of being, well, Google.
Who’ll be next?
