Active Paper's Presto!Mail To Be Bundled With Envoy 150 Wireless Communicator From Motorola.AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1995--Active Paper Inc. and Motorola Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MOT) have reached an agreement through which a demonstration edition of Active Paper's award-winning Presto!Mail 1.0 product is being bundled with every Envoy(R) 150 Wireless Communicator from Motorola. Presto!Mail is the first product to offer direct Internet e-mail access for Magic Cap personal communicators A concept for a handheld device that was co-created by Toronto engineer Robert J. Fraser in 1991, who also coined the term. The personal communicator was conceived to provide always-on, wireless connectivity to a nationwide, packet-switched communications network that would enable mobile . Presto!Mail allows users of Magic Cap-based personal communicators to access existing personal or corporate Internet mailboxes via their existing Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. and corporate e-mail systems. Presto!Mail allows full use of the Magic Cap environment to send messages with sound, graphics, agents and applications to other Presto!Mail users through the Internet. "In determining the applications that would be bundled with the new Envoy 150 Wireless Communicator, we sought to provide our customers with software solutions that would best meet their messaging needs," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Tim McCarthy Timothy J. McCarthy (born c. 1949) is the police chief of Orland Park, Illinois but is most famous for leaping in front of US President Ronald Reagan to stop one of John Hinckley, Jr.'s .22 caliber bullets on March 30, 1981 (see Reagan assassination attempt for details). , business manager, wireless communicators in Motorola's Wireless Data Group. "Presto!Mail is a state-of-the-art application for Internet connectivity, and we are pleased to offer it to our customers." "Obviously, we are very excited that Motorola and Active Paper have reached this agreement," according to Steve Vandegrift, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Active Paper, "especially given Motorola's reputation for quality throughout its product line. Presto!Mail, and other Active Paper products to follow, will open the full spectrum of Internet connectivity to Envoy communicator users." The Presto!Mail demo disk will allow users to access and retrieve up to the first 100 lines of email messages. Ordering information for a fully functional version of Presto!Mail will also be included in the Envoy 150 Wireless Communicator package. About Presto!Mail and the Presto!Works Suite of Applications Presto!Mail is the first product in Active Paper's Presto!Works family of Internet connectivity applications for Magic Cap. Active Paper is currently developing the second Presto!Works application -- Presto!Links, a full-featured, graphical World Wide Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. designed with Magic Cap-based personal communicators in mind. Presto!Links works with PPP-based Internet service providers, including hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the links and full graphical access. Active Paper is also currently developing Presto!Plus for servers, a unique proxy architecture that enhances performance and functionality of communicator-based Web access. Future products include Presto!News, an news browser for accessing and exploring Internet-based news groups. About Active Paper Active Paper Inc. was founded in October 1993 to deliver enabling technologies, applications and services for the emerging personal communicator market. The company has developed a number of custom applications for personal communicator devices and became a Magic Cap developer in late 1994. With the addition of the Magic Cap platform, Active Paper is demonstrating its commitment to providing Internet and other communication solutions for a variety of personal communicator devices. Active Paper's WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. home page can be found at http://www.apix.com. -0- NOTE: Trademarks: Active Paper, Presto!Works, Presto!Mail, Presto!Links, Presto!News and Presto!Plus for servers are trademarks of Active Paper Inc. Motorola and Envoy are registered trademarks of Motorola Inc. Any other product names in this document are for identification purposes only and are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: GTT GTT, n See test, glucose tolerance. GTT Glucose tolerance test, see there Communications (for Active Paper) Bill Stotesbery, 512/219-6339 or Active Paper Inc. Betsy Thaggard, 512/708-1255, ext. 13 or Motorola Inc. Cheryl Beck-Ruff, 847-576-7150 |
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