Hotmail to offer 250MB of free storage

News - ZDNet: "Ask Jeeves also plans to grant its e-mail subscribers more storage room. Earlier this year, the search company acquired Interactive Search Holdings, including My Way, The Excite Network and iWon.com, which all serve Web surfers with free e-mail. Ask Jeeves plans to give each of the sites' e-mail subscribers 125MB of free storage, up from an allottment of 3MB to 6MB previously. Separately, Microsoft said it will offer free antivirus software to scan e-mails before they appear in a user's in-box. "