The expanded storage will be available in mid-April, said Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's vice president of communications products.
The Sunnyvale-based company also is expanding the reach of its desktop software, a test product designed to find material stored on computer hard drives. Yahoo's software, licensed from X1 Technologies, will now index content from e-mail address books and discussions in Yahoo's instant messaging service.
The expanded e-mail storage enables Yahoo to catch up with online search engine leader Google, which offers an invitation-only service that has been offering 1 gigabyte of storage for nearly a year.
The fact that people need 1GB for email is quite astounding. Forget Kazaa and other P2P software, go back to sending files by email, there's plenty of room for everyone :D
