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This article was written on March 28, 2007 by CyberNet.

Some of you have said that you’d never have a reason to switch back to Yahoo Mail – you tried them, left them, and you’re not going back.  In May of this year, Yahoo will start unrolling unlimited email storage to all of their customers. Is that enough to go running over there? According to the recent poll that we started, probably not.

In our poll (you can still vote in the left side-bar), we are asking, how much storage do you actually use? The number one answer with 54 votes is 0–10 MB with 51–200 MB in a close second with 53 votes, and 201–500 MB in third with 51 votes.  The majority of people for this poll use between 0–200 MB of storage. They don’t need the heaps of storage that are currently offered, let alone unlimited space.

So will it really be the endless supply that will attract users? And now that Yahoo has made the move to unlimited storage, you can bet others will be quick to follow.  What will set these services apart? The only real big advantage that I can see for most people will come in the longer term, years from now in like 2020 when people are able to go back to their old email archives from 2007.

As mentioned, this expansion will start in May as Yahoo Mail is coming up on their 10 year anniversary. Yodel Anecdotal points out a few interesting stats:

• Yahoo Mail launched 10 years ago with 4 MB of storage for each user (that wouldn’t last long today!)
• Their total capacity for mail at that time was 200 GB for all of their customers combined
• Now people send and receive pictures in their mail that are as big as the original 4MB offered.

Yahoo mentions that they will be introducing this slowly over several months to make sure the process is smooth. The only way I could see another service one-upping them at this point would be to offer unlimited attachment size.  So far I haven’t read anything about Yahoo increasing their allowance for attachment sizes with the increase in storage space.

Good move for Yahoo, but will it make that big of a difference? With that, who will be next to jump the gun and offer unlimited space?

Source: Thanks CoryC!

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ComScore — a common metric used to measure internet traffic — is showing off some impressive stats these days. In the month of November, for instance, Facebook overtook Yahoo! for the first time in worldwide traffic, with the social network nabbing 648 million unique visitors while the portal named after Gulliver’s Travels pulled in 630 million. What does this mean to? Well, to point out the obvious, it seems that while Facebook continues its epic growth, the relatively flat state of Yahoo!’s traffic is simply not enough to retain its third place spot behind Google and Microsoft’s sites, which grab up places one and two consistently. One note about these ComScore statistics, just in case you’re wondering about that last one: it ‘groups’ sites together rather than counting individual URLS, so for instance, the Microsoft sites take the number two spot en masse. In terms of U.S. traffic, Facebook still trails Yahoo! a bit, with 152 million visitors and 181 million, respectively, so if they’re truly hoping for world domination, they have their work cut out for them. We’re looking at you, Mark!

ComScore: Facebook overtakes Yahoo, is now the third most trafficked website in the world originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on April 23, 2008 by CyberNet.

Any successful business owner knows that one of the most important aspects to any business is branding which goes hand-in-hand with marketing. When a company or product has been successfully branded, people will be able to recognize it and will be more likely to use it because it’s familiar (brand loyalty). Recently the list of the top 100 most powerful brands was released from market research firm Millward Brown Optimor. They interviewed over a million consumers around the World and used that combined with financial data to come up with their list. The results are actually pretty interesting, and 28 of the companies that made the top 100 are related to Tech in one way or another.

Out of all the brands out there, do you have any guesses as to which company topped the list? We were thinking something like Coca-Cola or McDonald’s would top the list because those seem to be two brands that everybody knows. As it turns out, good ole’ Google took the #1 slot. Here’s a look at the top 10 brands, and then we’ll take a look at some of the top Tech companies.

• #1 – Google
• #2 – GE
• #3 – Microsoft
• #4 – Coca-Cola
• #5 – China Mobile
• #6 – IBM
• #7 – Apple
• #8 – McDonald’s
• #9 – Nokia
• #10 – Marlboro

Are any of you surprised that Microsoft was number three on the list and IBM managed to beat out Apple? Joining the ranks of Google, Microsoft, IBM, Apple, and Nokia, other tech companies that made the list include:

• #16 – HP
• #22 – Cisco Systems
• #26 – Oracle
• #27 – Intel
• #41 – Dell
• #51 – BlackBerry
• #61 – Amazon
• #62 – Yahoo!
• #65 – eBay
• #92 – Motorola

It’s hard to believe that Yahoo ranks #62 on the list out of all of those because while Google has come and marched in on their parade, they are still a very popular Search Engine around the World.

Included in the report from company that put this list together was a note about three different emerging trends and one of them is the technology boom. They say, “The technology sector (including mobile operators), which accounted for 28 of the top 100 brands, outperformed all other categories in this year’s BrandZ Ranking, with a brand value growth of $187.5 billion. This is more than half of the Top 100′s total increase.”

Clearly the Technology Sector is booming, but will it last?

Source: News.com

Want to view the complete list? Click here (it’s a PDF).

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According to reports, Yahoo, the Web’s once-dominant search site, is planning to layoff between 650 and 700 employees–or around five percent of the company’s staff. The layoffs are said to be spread across the company, but primarily occurring in its product group.

The massive staff cut is an attempt for the company to hit financial targets–really unfortunate timing, 10 days ahead of Christmas. The latest cut is the fourth in three years–two of which have occurred in the two years since Carol Bartz was hired on as the company’s CEO. The layoffs have been rumored for a number of months now.

Bartz, for her part, is still outwardly confident that the company is improving under her watch.

Yahoo services, meanwhile, have been experiencing some downtime–no word on whether this is related to today’s news.

How do you start a net neutrality debate without ever saying “net neutrality?” If you’re a European wireless carrier like France Telecom, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, or Vodafone, you do it by just getting straight to the point: you say companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook need to start paying for continued network access because their devices and services use too much bandwidth. Yep, that’s a straight-up network neutrality issue, but the carriers are framing it like it’s an accounting problem — and they’re not being shy about wanting more cash to even out the books as they invest in next-gen networks. “It’s necessary to put in place a system of payments by service providers as a function of their use,” says France Telecom CEO Stephane Richard, while Telefonica CEO Cesar Alierta says that Google and Yahoo’s free use of his network is a “tragedy” that “can’t continue.” (No, we’re not making this up.)

In addition to shaking down service providers and device makers, European carriers are also following AT&T and Verizon to tiered data plans — France Telecom is will move from unlimited pricing to something “more sophisticated,” and the other networks expected to follow. What’s most interesting to us is that the carriers are appearing to conflate bandwidth-heavy services like Facebook and YouTube with devices that customers use to access those services — does it really make any sense to charge Apple or Google a fee for making good phones that encourage more network use, on top of charging users for tiered data? That’s an unexpected — and unfortunate — twist on the standard net neutrality debate, and we’re not so sure we want to see where it’s going. Read the whole article at the source link, it’s a good one.

European carriers want content companies and smartphone makers to pay network usage fees originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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