The release of its Webmail Version 3 ("v3") Beta has been announced by a leading provider of business and private label email hosting solutions, FuseMail. With customization and rich Web 2.0 features being at the core of the platform, the new version of webmail is designed to give users the ultimate in-browser email experience.

President of FuseMail, Bryan Heitman, declared: "Webmail Version 3 is without doubt, the biggest development in FuseMail's history," He added: "The interface is miles ahead of the competition, offering all the features you would expect from a downloadable email client from within your browser."

Webmail services need to offer users more than they have to date with many Web services moving towards the cloud and using Web 2.0 experiences to connect to them. In the comparison between traditional email clients (such as Outlook and Thunderbird) versus webmail clients, speed has always been an important factor. FuseMail's Webmail v3 stores significant amounts of each message in a database, rather than a traditional folder. v3 is able to perform common email tasks - such as opening or moving messages - at near instant speeds by using background AJAX calls and extensive JavaScript in combination with this database structure, Combine that with FuseMail's use of multiple datacenters to geographically locate user data as close to them as possible and you get a lightning fast Web experience.

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