During 2006, Lycos introduced several media services, including Lycos Phone which combined video chat, real-time video on demand, and an MP3 player. In August of the same year, a new version of Lycos Mail was released, which allowed sending and receiving large files, including unlimited file attachment sizes. In November 2006, Lycos began to roll out applications centered around social media, including the first "watch and chat" video application with the launch of its Lycos Cinema platform. In February 2007, Lycos MIX was launched, allowing users to pull video clips from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video and MySpace Video. Lycos MIX also allowed users to create playlists where other users could add video comments and chat in real-time.
As part of a corporate restructuring to focus on mobile, social networks and location-based serves, Daum sold Lycos for $36 million in August 2010 to Ybrant Digital, an internet marketing company based in Hyderabad, India.
Starting in May 2007, Yahoo! started to roll out to its users an unlimited amount of e-mail storage.
Yahoo! Mail has the following features:
Free version
- Unlimited Mail Storage.
- 25 MB attachments
- 100 filters to automatically sort incoming messages
- Protection against spam and viruses.
- Advertising is displayed on the screen while working with the e-mail account. Text ads are not within the e-mails themselves, and they are now added to the footer of outgoing messages, as of February 2011.
- POP3 support, Mail Forwarding facility, and SMTP support in some countries (but not in the US). Current and new accounts can not order the free POP3 / forwarding service – attempts give acurrently not for sale error.
- Accounts not logged into for four months get deactivated (the account can be retrieved but all stored data, such as e-mails, are lost).
- Early in 2006, Yahoo! Mail introduced aliases to its repertoire of features. Users could now add a alias username containing a dot character for a pre-existing account.
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