Active Paper Brings Internet Connectivity to Magic Cap Personal Communicators.AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 1995--Active Paper(R), a provider of software for personal communicators, today announced the availability of Presto!Mail(TM), its Internet e-mail solution for General Magic's Magic Cap(TM) platform. Presto!Mail is the first product in Active Paper's Presto!Works(TM) family of Internet connectivity applications for the Sony Magic Link personal communicator and other Magic Cap-based personal communicators. "Users have typically been 'bound' to the desktop for all their Internet communication needs," says David King David King may refer to:
Presto!Mail gives users of Magic Cap-based products direct access to the global Internet e-mail system through UNIX-based 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. or corporate Internet mailboxes. 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. The Personal Communicator Market "There is increasing demand from users of personal communicator products for affordable, easy-to-use applications that link them to the wide variety of information services See Information Systems. ," 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. Jeff Bone, Active Paper's chief technologist. In response to this demand, Active Paper is focused on bringing Internet connectivity applications to the growing personal communicator market and has targeted its initial software for Magic Cap-based products. "The increasing importance of the Internet as a primary backbone for electronic communication and commerce make connectivity to the Internet a valuable application for users of personal communicators such as Magic Link," said Alex Gruzen, director of marketing for Sony's Personal Information Company. "Active Paper's Presto!Works products directly address this user need." 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. Additional applications in the suite to be introduced in the future include Presto!Links, a 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. , and Presto!News, a news browser for accessing and exploring Internet-based news groups. The full product suite will be available by early 1996. Price and Availability Presto!Mail is available today for $49.95 directly from Sony by calling (800) 571-SONY. Presto!Mail is also available directly from Active Paper by calling 1-800-2FLY-API (1-800-235-9274). Sony Personal Information Company (PICo), formed to develop products for the mobile communications market, has worldwide operations based in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. and is a division of Sony Electronics Sony Electronics Inc., headquartered in San Diego, Calif., is the largest component of Sony Corporation of America, the U.S. holding company for Sony's U.S.-based electronics and entertainment businesses. Inc. Customer service and consumer product information for the Magic Link personal communicator are available to PC and Macintosh users through Sony's Magic Link Information Center on America Online or on the Magic Link home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/Magic. 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- To reach Active Paper: P.O. Box 684664 Austin, Texas 78768-4664 Phone: (800) 235-9274 Fax: (512) 452-9505 e-mail: info@apix.com web: http://www.apix.com -0- Any product names in this document are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: GTT GTT, n See test, glucose tolerance. GTT Glucose tolerance test, see there Communications Bill Stotesbery, 512/219-6339 or Sony Manny Manny may refer to: In nobility:
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