NEWS – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW
E-MAIL SERVICE OFFERS WIRELESS USERS
“UNPRECEDENTED”
CONTROL OVER E-MAIL
Thinmail is First Service That Allows Users Complete
Ability to Send, Receive, Manage, and Fax Documents From Any Wireless Email
Device
WALTHAM, MA – August
21, 2000 – Thinmail, a new e-mailservice
that gives wireless users an unprecedented level of control over their
incoming and outgoing e-mail, has been introduced.
Thinmail is a universally
compatible system that gets in-between sender and receiver, and provides
a range of valuable services. For the receiver, Thinmail blocks unwanted
senders, reformats messages, and strips and stores email attachments replacing
them with private links.This eliminates
the problems of attachments either getting bounced or eating up storage
and bandwidth.For the sender, Thinmailcan
forward, fax, and manage any attachments they’ve sent or received via any
of their email accounts using only simple text messages – a claim that
no other product or service can make. With the growing popularity of wireless
data devices such as the Palm VII, Omnisky, Pagewriter, & Blackberry,
the abilities to manage attachments and email addresses are particularly
attractive capabilities.
Thinmail is comprised of
three powerful components:
·A
message formatter, which strips and stores attachments, changes HTML to
plain text, filters unwanted senders, and previews documents.
· An
email robot, which interprets commands sent as simple e-mail messages. With
a simple command, users can get important documents, forward them, convert
them to text, or immediately print them to any fax machine. They
can even block unwanted senders with a simple message to the robot instead
of going to a complicated web page.
·A
masquerading system - the world’s first non-anonymous re-mailer
- which supports multiple valid e-mail addresses.As
users send e-mail from their devices, Thinmail can make it appear as if
the messages came from their business or home address.
Thinmail Offers Unprecedented E-Mail Control
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“Right now, managing
attachments and addresses are the most important problems facing wireless
devices. But by the year 2003, people will routinely receive 200 or 300
e-mail messages a day, in all kinds of formats which won’t work on the
latest wireless devices,” said Jordan Pollack, CEO and founder of Thinmail
Corporation.“Thinmail was created
with this future in mind, and will provide a growing range of application
services, en route, for mobile communicators.
Thinmail
is selling its services to customers individually with no advertising or
transaction fees while looking to license its software and patents to large
scale infrastructure providers of email and wireless services. It
is also affordably and flexibly priced, as it collects nanopayments for
aggregated use of resources over time. After
a free trial period, customers can choose their preferred usage rate. Hal
Chapel, the founder of Xevo Corporation and a member of the board of the
ASP Industry Consortium said, “Thinmail is leading the way in defining
ASP as something other than monthly office software rentals.”
More information
about Thinmail Corporation or its Thinmail service is available on the
Web at
www.thinmail.com.
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