New Free 1000mb Email Service

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Israel\'s Walla Communications (WALA.TA: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday launched a global one gigabyte free e-mail service, beating Google to the market in the race towards virtually limitless mail space.
Walla last week began offering the service in Israel, where it has some one million users, but has now opened the service globally at its website: www.walla.com.

Competition in the free e-mail market has heated up of late. Search engine Google is planning G-mail, a free one gigabyte service, which is currently in the testing phase.

Yahoo (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) recently raised its free e-mail storage space to 100 megabytes from four megabytes, although customers can pay $20 a year for two gigabytes of space. Indian portal Rediff (REDF.O: Quote, Profile, Research) in late June began offering a free gigabyte of memory.

Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is currently in the process of upgrading its Hotmail service.

Walla\'s free service, which includes an anti-virus application, will be paid for by advertisements although users can pay $15 a year for an ad-free service.

Walla said users will be able to save some 40,000 e-mails, 2,000 photos and 50, one-minute video clips, as well as being able to send file attachments of up to 30 megabytes.

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