AltaVista announces end of free e-mail service
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AltaVista Co. announced Tuesday it will end its free e-mail service next month as part of its effort to focus on making money from its online search engine.
About 400,000 e-mailboxes maintained by AltaVista will be closed March 31, the company said Tuesday. Only half of those e-mailboxes were actively used, AltaVista said.
The Palo Alto-based company offered free e-mail accounts while trying to develop a multipurpose Web site similar to Yahoo.com. In late 2000, though, AltaVista switched gears again and concentrated on developing the search engine software that originally made its site a Web favorite.
AltaVista notified its e-mail account holders of the decision Tuesday to give them ample time to save important messages and line up an alternate service, company officials said.
The TX99 will feature MIPS-3D ASE (application specific extension) for execution of multimedia tasks, enabling the chip to run at speeds over 1-GHz, said Toshinori Moriyasu, general manager of Microprocessor Division at Toshiba.
Development tools and applications software will be available from numerous third-party suppliers, including Algorithmics, Green Hills Software, Mentor Graphics, Microsoft, MontaVista, Red Hat and Wind River. In addition, the MIPS Alliance Program (MAP) supports the availability of critical hardware and software such as 802.11, Bluetooth, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, audio algorithms, ATM, and others.
Toshiba will launch its initial product in the first quarter of 2003 and bring a TX99-based general microprocessor to market by the end of 2003.