Firm: People e-mailing less with webmail, more with phones

Seattle PI Blog

As Americans find more and more ways to communicate, they are e-mailing less via webmail sites and more via their smart phones, according to new research from comScore.

Webmail sites -- such as Microsoft's Hotmail.com and Google's Gmail.com -- saw a 6 percent overall drop in U.S. visitors from November 2009 to November 2010, the research firm said today. Meanwhile, the number of people who used their mobile phones for e-mail skyrocketed 36 percent.