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I could not make out the specialty of the offer after going through the complete news and even after checking out the website.
They ask you to point your GPRS-enabled phone’s browser to wap.emailtomobile.com and acces your emails. Well, can’t I do it already with my Yahoo! Mail ? I think I can. Most of the popular portals have their WAP versions (Although WAP is hardly popular) and I can anyways access my Internet from my existing emails if I have a GPRS-enabled phone.

 
Exactly ten years back, I watched a story of three people. Rahul, Anjali and Tina. Today, I write about three companies. Three companies that are known to shape the course of Web. The three people were connected by love. The three companies are connected by competition. Until now, the companies were operating independently. But suddenly, [...]

The new year is here and the Indian Internet space has grown by leaps and bounds over the past one year. Heres a look at the activities of some of India’s Portals
 
 Rediff
 
Rediff has had an elusive and progressive new year, with new introductions to its services and tie ups alike. The portals revenues have [...]

Microsoft India recently launched a new email domain just for Indian users. The new email domain name is @live.in. This means that your email id will be yourname@live.in apart from the normal yourname@hotmail.com. Microsoft is on the rampage of introducing this new email domain name globally with country specific extensions. This new domain name remains [...]

Hotmail was sold for $ 400 million dollars. Yes, I understand that in the times of Google-Youtube deal worth $ 1.6 billion and Facebook’s valuation touching $ 15 billion, $400 million looks like a speck of dirt. But it was a lot of money in 1997. In 1997, when an energetic young man made the [...]

Hotmail goes local
We had earlier covered hotmail offering custom ids to their users, well this service is going to launch this weekend where you can have custom ids based on these categories.

Where i Live, Who i Like, Who am I, What i like & i dont fit.

Users will be able to create multiple e-mail addresses [...]

Hotmail has a special connection with most Indians, mainly because of the Sabeer Bhatia connection.
Hotmail was launched on July 4, 1996 and in less than six months, the website attracted over 1 million subscribers. As the interest in the web-based email provider increased, Microsoft eventually took notice and on December 30, 1997, Hotmail was sold [...]