Citibank offers free e-mail and wireless alerts if you get near to overdrawing your account.
Google is currently soft-launching Gmail, a free e-mail service that offers one gigabyte of free storage.
Seven months ago his site had 4, 000 subscribers to its free e-mail newsletter.
By letting users create their own news service, and offering free e-mail and popular message boards, Yahoo!
He says he didn't foresee the emergence of free e-mail and storage programs from the likes of Yahoo and Google's Gmail.
Google's free e-mail service shook up the business by offering huge storage capacity and new features, forcing competitors to catch up.
Users can see which members have the hottest portfolios and get free e-mail alerts when their favorite stock picker makes a change.
Spark placed the development of free e-mail service Hotmail at No. 2 on the list, but online users disagreed, placing it sixth with 1, 000 votes.
Bhatia, of course, was the brains behind Hotmail, the free e-mail service that more than half of the world's Internet users have signed up for.
The firm recently launched an initiative called Project 60, a 60-day-long blitzkrieg to bring free E-mail, search, forums and other basic portal functions to its Netcenter site.
Microsoft's New Year's buyout of the most popular free E-mail provider, HotMail, is another sure sign that the Redmond giant is taking its portal strategy very seriously indeed.
He says he didn't foresee the emergence of free e-mail and storage programs from the likes of Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) and Google's Gmail.
But the move follows a string of incidents where either security in Passport - or the Hotmail free e-mail system to which it is tightly bound - has proved to be lax.
Gmail, a free online e-mail service offered by Google, could provide a clue to the way things are going.
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The site offers parents free advice via e-mail, guided tours of "safe sites" and recommended links and books on homeschooling.
Company representatives say they're working on a Disappearing plug-in for Lotus Notes, and expect to soon release free plug-ins for other popular e-mail programs, such as Outlook Express and Eudora.
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Ninety-nine percent of Google's revenues come from ads, either the ones it puts next to free Internet-based services like search and e-mail, or through syndication on third-party Web pages.
Mozilla offers free versions of a web browser (Firefox) and e-mail client (Thunderbird) for free.
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