AT&T provides Electronic Mail and fax capabilities to the Sharp Zaurus K-PDA.PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 1994--AT&T EasyLink Services(R) and Sharp Electronics have teamed to give users of Sharp's new Zaurus Keyboard-enhanced Personal Digital Assistant (K-PDA) the power to send faxes and electronic mail around the globe with the reliability and quality of AT&T's worldwide intelligent network. The Zaurus K-PDA is Sharp's latest pocket-sized personal productivity tool which boasts a powerful 16-bit processor for faster information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. , one megabyte One million bytes, or more precisely 1,048,576 bytes. Also MB, Mbyte and M-byte. See mega and space/time. (unit) megabyte - (MB, colloquially "meg") 2^20 = 1,048,576 bytes = 1024 kilobytes. 1024 megabytes are one gigabyte. of memory, and a pen-and-keyboard- based Graphical User Interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) to make the device especially user-friendly for sending fax and E-mail messages. Zaurus users can access the AT&T network to send documents to fax machines worldwide, or to exchange electronic mail over most public mail networks including the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . Users can even send and receive telex telex: see telegraph. telex International telegraphic message-transfer service consisting of a network of teleprinters. Subscribers to a telex service can exchange textual communications and data directly with one another. messages. To gain access to the AT&T Mail Service, Zaurus users need only a Sharp CE-FM4 fax/data modem or a PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. cellular fax/modem such as the AT&T Paradyne KeepInTouch(R) card, the Sharp AT&T Mail Access add-on software, and an AT&T Mail account. "AT&T's relationship with Sharp will give more people access to communications anytime, anywhere," said David Portzer, AT&T's Mobile Messaging Marketing Manager. Mobile professionals use AT&T Mail for a variety of applications. For example, a user can create a message and send it to many users simultaneously in multiple locations via both fax and E-mail. Critical schedule changes, price changes, and supplier shipment information can be quickly and cost-effectively communicated across the globe using AT&T's worldwide intelligent network. Additionally, AT&T maintains a toll-free AT&T Mail customer support hotline 24-hours-per-day, seven days a week, with service in multiple languages. AT&T EasyLink Services is the leading provider of electronic mail services to businesses in the U.S. with connections to 160 countries worldwide. AT&T EasyLink Services and KeepInTouch are registered trademarks of AT&T Corp. CONTACT: AT&T Easylink Services,
Janet Stone, 201/331-4144 (office)
201/543-2922 (home)
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Sharp Electronics
Lois Catala, 201/529-9428 (office)
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