Internet giant America Online (AOL) has said that they are in beta testing with a new free webmail service, along the lines of Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail.

Dubbed “AOL Mail on the Web” (AMW? AOLMW?), it is already available to existing AOL members who registered to beta-test the product, and is expected to be opened to the public later in 2005.

In addition to being a stand-alone free webmail service, AOL has said that sometime in early 2005 it will replace the current web interface which allows AOL users to access their email via the web.

AOL has also tied their popular instant messenger service, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) in… [Continued...]