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Jagran Prakashan and Yahoo will launch a co-branded Web site offering Hindi news online

Bangalore March 28 Yahoo! India joins the fray in offering unlimited e-mail storage. By May, Yahoo Mail, which is in beta version, will allow its 250 million users to now chat within it, and store all their mail without worrying about archiving, or downloading them.

Competitors Gmail and MSN offer 2.8GB and 2GB of storage in inboxes currently. Rediff recently announced unlimited storage for its e-mail usersYahoo! Mail is used by 88 per cent of all e-mail users (around 13.5 million use e-mail across the globe), said an Yahoo official. You can also search for a message buried inside and read RSS feeds. Tabbed browsing within the inbox allows the user to open multiple e-mails and chat messaging windows easily.

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The company expects e-mail using WAP to be catch on fast. Yahoo! Go application, which allows you to check your e-mail from your mobile, will also be made available in more handsets. It is also tying up with mobile makers Motorola and Samsung to embed its photo sharing service Flickr in handsets. The company's mobile search product - One Search - is expected to be available in a couple of months in India.

Hindi is vital... says Yahoo! India and proves it by partnering with Jagran Prakashan Ltd, the group behind Dainik Jagran. The two entities will launch a co-branded Web site offering Hindi news and current affairs online in the second half of this year. To be made available at jagran.yahoo.in, the site is a step in bringing onto the online medium. Yahoo will be working on bringing a similar Web site in a southern Indian language next.

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