Tag: yahoomail

Yahoo plans to more than double its free email storage limits, reports the Associated Press. As of Monday, members will receive up to 250 MB of free storage, up from the current limit of 100 MB. The move is an obvious reaction to Microsoft’s recent free storage boost for Hotmail to 250 MB and Google’s current 1 GB limit. “Besides increasing storage limits, Yahoo says it has upgraded the tools for verifying the identities of e-mailers and improved the features used to search e-mail content,” notes the report.

Jim Brock, senior VP for consumer services at Yahoo!, has said that a revamped Yahoo! email service will begin rolling out this summer that will offer unlimited email storage for premium users, reports Mercury News. The company announced the move at its annual analysts meeting in San Francisco. Details on the new service were scarce, but Yahoo!

Yahoo has repaired a security hole in Yahoo Mail, the company’s free Web-based email service, reports Reuters. “The hole could have allowed an attacker to launch a computer worm or run malicious code on a victim’s computer when an e-mail containing the code was opened,” said Finjan Software, the San Jose firm that discovered the vulnerability.