Some time ago, Mozilla announced plans to create a new organization responsible for development of the Thunderbird e-mail client. Mozilla’s hugely popular Firefox web browser has been getting most of the attention from both developers and internet users, while Thunderbird has been standing in the dark.

Tuesday, David Ascher announced that the new Thunderbird project has a new name: Mozilla Messaging. He also released the following about Thunderbird 3:

An integrated calendar
Improved search
Easier configuration

In the long run, Ascher says the team is focusing on internet communication. Most people use instant messaging, IRC, blogs, and VoIP to communicate along side email. We hope to see an instant chat add-on included.

Yahoo! Mail has been around for ten years and now is web 2.0, featuring drag and drop, right clickable menus, tabbed message windows and much more. One great new feature is the ability to send and recieve SMS messages and Live Messanger IMs within the mail interface.

The new tabs feature takes a little bit of getting use to: new tabs appear for almost every action, replying, searching, creating new messages, chatting or adding new contacts. One drawback for some users is not seeing their inbox but rather a news tab. Other mail services watch out, Yahoo! has something great.

Gmail now offers you a 5GB space to store your email as you can see on the home page.

From Google:

In April 2005, we started increasing Gmail storage as part of our “Infinity+1″ storage plan. At that time, we realized we’d never reach infinity, but we promised to keep giving Gmail users more space as we were able. That said, a few of you are using Gmail so much that you’re running out of space, so to make good on our promise, today we’re announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage.

Google has just released an updated version of Gmail Mobile. Google Maps now works on cell phones running the Symbian operating system.

Here are the new features:

• Display contact information including photo, email address, phone number, and notes when you click on a contact
• Can call a Gmail contact by clicking on their phone number
• Save draft e-mails
• Now able to monitor your bandwidth usage