AOL Has a New Idea: Free E-mail

To compete with Google and Yahoo, America Online offers free e-mail to all and unlimited storage for subscription users. Also: Microsoft plans to take over BlackBerry's niche.... Yahoo drops fees for U.S. auctions.... and more.

America Online launched a free, web-based e-mail service, departing for the first time from a fee-based subscription model in a move to compete with free, and increasingly large, e-mail accounts offered by the likes of Google and Yahoo. ...

Source: Wired News