EarthLink Takes On AOL, Gmail With Flash-Based Web Mail, TechWeb News, 3 Mar 2005

“EarthLink will roll out a beta of a new members-only Flash-based Web e-mail within four weeks, the Atlanta-based Internet service provider said Thursday, in a bid to upstage rivals such as America Online and even Google. Unlike other Web-based e-mail systems, such as America Online's new subscriber-only service, EarthLink's upcoming Enhanced Webmail is built using the Laszlo platform, which generates Flash-based applications. Most existing online mail services, including those hosted by AOL, Google, and Microsoft, are built on DHTML (Dynamic HTML)…Out the gate, Enhanced Webmail will offer 100MB of storage for each mailbox (each EarthLink account can have as many as eight mailboxes), but the ISP plans to boost that to 1GB -- matching Google's free Gmail -- by the third quarter.�

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