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!
Read MoreSix Apart, makers of Movable Type software and TypePad weblogging service, today announced a contest intended to give developers a place to showcase and sell their Movable Type plug-ins while competing for US$20,000 in prizes, including a first prize of a “dream $7,000+ desktop system (Apple Macintosh or Dell PC). Contestants can enter anytime between now and June 18, 2004.
Read MoreGoogle announced its new, free 1GB email service on March 31, 2004 without support for Safari, Apple’s Web browser. However, Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, has said that this will change before the service is publicly available. “We’re going to make it work with Safari and that’s one of the high priority things,” Brin told MacCentral in an interview. “I’ve heard that you can sort of get it to work if you’re desperate.
Read MoreCompression Labs, a subsidiary of Forgent Networks, has initiated litigation against 31 companies (including Apple, Adobe, Dell, IBM and Macromedia) for infringement of United States Patent No. 4,698,672 (the ‘672 Patent) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division.
Read MoreTime magazine (paid subscription required) has placed Apple CEO Steve Jobs in its “Top 100” list issue, which presents the magazine’s choices of the 100 most influential people in the world today. Other selections in the “Builders and Titans” category include Carly Fiorina (chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard), media titan Rupert Murdoch, Michael Dell (chairman and CEO of Dell), and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
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