Old news... Hotmail are giving everyone 250Mb space. They are starting from the oldest users first (ie. those who opened their accounts a loooong time ago) through to newbies by the end of the year supposedly.
There is some literature on the net that makes mention of some privacy issues with gmail. Apparently one of the people behind it is big on data mining. So it kinda begs the question.
But all in all i'll wait for my hotmail bump up and keep using gmail.
Yeah, there's a "google watch" site, which is full to the brim of conspiracies. Then you've got "google watch watch", which takes the time to debunk the fuck out of the "google watch" site