Posted 09/10/09 at 05:21:13 PM by Jason Barry

Yahoo Mail is now pre-installing the Attach Large Files application to all Yahoo Mail accounts. The application, developed by the folks at drop.io allows users to send multiple file attachments that total over 100 megabytes in a single email. The application was developed on the open API made available by the drop.io service.

The Attach Large Files Yahoo application ties directly to the drop.io service so that after attaching and uploading the files, they persist within the application. This gives you the power to view, re-attach, collaborate further (via phone conference), or delete the set altogether.

Yahoo planned to rollout the application to all users today. Check out Attach Large Files in action as well as other drop.io services.

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Posted 08/18/09 at 05:42:29 AM by Pulkit Chandna

Gmail shed its beta tag in July, after having been around for five years. However, Gmail has acquired a different tag now: that of the third most popular webmail service in the US, at least according to internet research firm comScore. Gmail leapt past AOL to take the third spot during the month of July, a month in which it entertained 37 million unique visitors as opposed to 36.4 million users that visited AOL.

It now has Windows Live Hotmail – currently second with 47 million monthly unique visitors – well within its reach. Gmail’s unique visitors swelled by 25% during the first 7 months of 2009, while Hotmail only managed to increase unique visitors by 8%. Yahoo Mail is the most popular webmail service with 106 million unique visitors.

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Posted 06/19/08 at 07:36:51 PM by Pulkit Chandna

Many-a Tom, Dick and Harry must have cursed their parents for such ordinary christening skills after being turned down an email id of their choice – which includes their name – that has already been taken up. But Yahoo is offering a great respite from the cut throat world of e-mail id registrations by offering ids on two new domains, Ymail and Rocketmail. Users can reserve their favorite ids on these two domains as registrations are now open. "We realized we needed to expand the universe of Yahoo mail," said John Kremer, head of Yahoo mail. Some of the popular ids on the new domains are on the block on eBay and the proceeds will all go to charity.

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