terça-feira, maio 15, 2007

Mais espaço para o Yahoo Mail

Brevemente a Yahoo vai oferecer espaço ilimitado nas suas contas de e-mail. É um movimento que se tem verificado desde que o Google ofereceu 2 Gb de espaço. Há pouco tempo foi a vez do Hotmail passar para 2 Gb. A Yahoo comemora os seus 10 anos de e-mail gratuito e ataca de novo.

Para se perceber como evoluiu a oferta de espaço de armazenamento em várias tecnologias veja-se este exemplo retirado do sítio Yodel:

When Yahoo! Mail launched 10 years ago, users got a whopping 4MB of storage for their entire mailbox. Today, you would fill that up with a single picture from your weekend.

This got me thinking about how the storage capacity of other popular technology products has changed. A quick snapshot:

1997: Yahoo! Mail launches with 4MB of storage

SanDisk introduces 2MB flash card for the Canon PowerShot.
Compaq announces “high capacity memory upgrades” in four capacities, including 16MB, 32MB, 64MB and 128MB capacities.
Caleb introduces the Ultra High Density floppy disk drive that stores up to 144MB on a single disk.
The first iPod is still a gleam in someone’s eye. It’s not introduced until 2001 and comes with 5GB of storage.
2004/2005: Yahoo! Mail upgrades in 2004 to 100MB of storage, followed by a jump to 1GB in 2005

Olympus upgrades to 1GB flash memory card.
HP announces 160GB storage upgrade for its Media Center PCs.
Corsair in 2005 announces a USB flash drive with 4GB of storage.
Apple announces the Fifth Generation iPod with 30GB capacity.
2007: Yahoo! Mail announces unlimited email storage

SanDisk launches 8GB flash card for photo storage.
Alienware introduces a desktop computer with 1 terabyte of storage.
Apple currently ships the newest 80GB iPod, launched in 2006 and holds up to 100 hours of video.

Ler aqui a notícia completa.

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