NetEase, a NASDAQ-listed company is announcing that all its users of these three email systems, i.e. 163 Mail, 126, and Yeah.net will have free unlimited storage starting in September 10 afternoon 2pm. This strategic move by NetEase was primarily designed to make its users happy and satisfy of the services rendered, and not being attracted by the promotion of another email provider, Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo! Mail currently also offered unlimited storage for its users in China that sign-up under the domain @yahoo.cn while the user whom still prefer domain @yahoo.com.cn will have the basic online storage restricted to 3.5G.

NetEase was the first company that launched Chinese version of email online storage to the China people there since 1998. Its popular 163 Mail or 126 Mail is restricted to 3G prior to this upgrade by the current users. Both email systems are Ajax interface and Kaspersky antivirus program have pre-installed into the products. Due to the brand name of NetEase, they currently have more than 190 million users that used their Web mail products. Maybe you are in doubt of how they going to manage these three different Web mail products under one umbrella, but they managed to get their users satisfied and happy with the features that they offered.

The other day I have posted a post that talked about the forthcoming of Yahoo!’s unlimited email storage. Today I just came across Baidu China is also planning to launch a similar email product with the unlimited storage size. And according to the personal blog of Baidu Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robin Li, he is asking whether Baidu should venture into offering email services to its users and he said on his blog, assume Baidu want to develop its own email system, the storage size to be offered will be unlimited.

I will report back on this issue. Stay tuned.

The past few days as I observed in the blogosphere, the hottest topic is surrounding the free electronic mail (email) product that we used daily. Yahoo! Mail will offer “unlimited” storage for all of their users starting in May this year in addition to the Yahoo! Mail API has been released to the developers, according to this article.

In terms of appearance and function, the offered of virtually invisible, “unlimited” storage space for the mailboxes by Yahoo! Mail, though make so much sense, but seems to be the relatively sarcasm titles for some of the economists. Unlimited storage is the newest promotion or strategy for Yahoo! Mail to generates a substantially critical mass of attraction that many email users would expected switch to their service. But we never know how many users will sign-up or make a switch until Yahoo! Unlimited Mail Storage launch in May. But, some attended the economics classes will know that scarcity is a basic concept as most of the products and services are scarce due to the limited availability of resources. Examples are clean water and gasoline. But now we came across a new terminology that called unlimited storage space, is it means scarcity is not restricted to technology and albeit that demand for storage space is high, and the supply-side is also abundance. And the notable is, Yahoo! is willingly to give up its short-term profit since scarcity could generate revenue and raise prices, example here is: sell more storage space by charging a user a subscription fee.

Bottom-line: Whatever the enhancements made by your email provider, you’ll know that its objective is to increase the loyalty and usage of their email system.