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Yahoo!想不动声色地在今年提供基于WEB的免费Email服务吗?虽然高层保持缄默,但这已成为最近联机服务界最关注的话题。在Yahoo!盛名之下,这样一个举措势将给这一方兴未艾的新业务带来震动。今天,Four11的一个女发言人和来自Hotmail的相关消息宣称Yahoo!已经与他们商谈过以共同的名义提供此项服务事宜。Yahoo!已经向Four11提供网络电话的目录索引,这似乎使Four11占据有利地位。有消息称在Excite上月宣布提供免费Email的激励下,此次商谈历时长达一月。Excite是仅次于Yahoo!的第二大网上索引,它与另一家免费Email提供商WhoWhere合作提供免费的Email。Yahoo!的高级业务副总裁Jeff Mallett拒绝证实任何有关免费Email的传闻,他仅仅表示,没有任何有关此事的“正式”公告。但他说该公司曾经表示会考虑为它的网上索引使用任何形式的联机通信手段,而Excite正提供了一顶Yahoo!没有的功能:网络邮件。Yahoo!拥有巨大的声望和众多的用户,它介入免费Email的领地将会改变整个市场。6月30日,该公司报告它每天收到3800万次访问。Email和网上闲聊曾是诸如American Online的联机服务最受欢迎的服务,但基于WEB的免费
Yahoo! Want to quietly provide this year’s free web-based Email service? Although the top remain silent, but it has become the most talked about online service sector. Under Yahoo!’s prestige, such a move is set to shake the thriving new business. Today, a spokeswoman for Four11 and related news from Hotmail claim that Yahoo! has negotiated with them to offer the service in a common name. Yahoo! has provided Four11 with a directory index for VoIP, which seems to make Four11 a good bet. It was reported that the talks lasted as long as January after Excite’s announcement of providing a free email last month. Excite, the second-largest online index behind Yahoo!, collaborates with another free email provider, WhoWhere, to provide free email. Jeff Mallett, Yahoo! ’s senior vice president of business, declined to confirm any rumors about free emails and simply said he did not have “official” announcements about the matter. But he said the company had said it would consider using any form of online communication for its online index, and Excite is offering a feature that Yahoo! does not have: webmail. Yahoo! has a huge reputation and a large number of users, it involved in the free email territory will change the entire market. On June 30, the company reported that it received 38 million daily visits. Email and chat online have been the most popular online services such as American Online, but the free web-based