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Tuesday, Yahoo Inc. introduced a paid mobile download that provides Sprint's mobile phone customers with e-mail services similar to those available on personal computers. This news represents the latest move to capitalize on the hot market for wireless e-mail, which is increasingly a must-have feature for corporate types and consumers reports Forbes Magazine.
Sprint customers will download software directly to their phones, and sign up for the service directly on their phones. No additional PC software will be required, and customers will be billed by Sprint.
The service allows the storage of emails onto the phone, customers can synchronize contact lists on their phones from their Yahoo! E-mail address books. One option lets customers use their phones to remotely delete e-mail from their in-boxes. The new Yahoo Mail for Mobile service costs $2.99 a month.
Yahoo! recently launched an early version of a service called PhotoMail that lets customers share digital photos. America Online in May introduced its own free e-mail service, AIM Mail, based around technology called Mailblocks, which it acquired last year.
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