Asahi Shimbun, Japan's Most Influential Newspaper Selects Commtouch to Provide Japanese Email.Largest Branded Email Service See Internet e-mail service. in Japan Provides Internet Messaging, Calendaring and Online Tools for Asahi.com Commtouch Software (Nasdaq:CTCH CTCH Common Traffic Channel ), a leading global provider of web-based email Web-based email or webmail is a term referring to an e-mail service intended to be primarily accessed via a web browser, as opposed to through an application such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, Mozilla's Thunderbird or Apple's Mail. and messaging solutions, today announced its partnership with Japan's most respected and widely read newspaper, Asahi Shimbun The Asahi Shimbun (朝日新聞 Asahi Shinbun . Commtouch was selected by Asahi Shimbun as the exclusive provider of web-based email for the newspaper's Internet news and destination site, asahi.com (www.asahi.com). Asahi.com is now using the new Commtouch Custom Mail(TM) service which includes the most comprehensive, integrated email calendaring and address book in the market today. Commtouch first began providing Japanese-language email in 1996, years before most other Internet companies were even formed. The International leader in outsourced email has more experience than any other web-based email provider in delivering messaging solutions for the Japanese market. Today Commtouch serves 1.2 million end users in Japan who subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; its web-based email services. Tetsuzo Hori, Asahi Shimbun's Director of Electronic Media & Broadcasting said, "We chose the Commtouch Custom Mail service because it provides an advanced technology and a very convenient solution for our end-users. We are very pleased to have a good partnership with Commtouch and we highly appreciate its team and their efforts." The Asahi Shimbun is read by more than 12 million subscribers every day, more than any other daily newspaper in Japan. It is considered the "paper of choice" amongst Japan's political, commercial and social elite. Asahi.com, the online arm of Asahi Shimbun, is one of Japan's leading destination Internet sites, attracting more than 2 million page views on an average day. "We are very pleased and honored that Asahi Shimbun, the leading and most influential daily newspaper in Japan, has chosen our advanced, free web-based email service for its cyber news site", said Isabel Maxwell, President of Commtouch. "Commtouch has been actively developing email and messaging technology for the Japanese market for many years. This partnership with Asahi Shimbun is a wonderful confirmation of our efforts to support Japanese speakers with the latest Internet communication and productivity tools." About Asahi Shimbun Asahi Shimbun, founded in 1879, has long been considered Japan's most influential and international daily newspaper, published in Tokyo with regional headquarters. The newspaper has a daily circulation of 8.3 million for its morning edition and 4.2 million for its evening edition. An international satellite edition is printed daily in London, Heerlen (the Netherlands), New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Los Angels, Singapore and Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. . Launched in August 1995, the Internet information service of Asahi Shimbun, "asahi.com" (http://www.asahi.com/), has grown to be one of Japan's most popular cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. sites, scoring on average, over 2 million page views a day. About Commtouch Serving 6.6 million active email-boxes around the world, Commtouch is a leading provider of outsourced email and messaging services for corporations and consumers worldwide. Commtouch email is designed for superior performance and rapid scalability, offering end user interfaces in sixteen of the world's major languages. With more than eight years of delivering intuitive, award-winning email software, Commtouch provides its customers a truly comprehensive turn-key email service, together with options for premium communications services and direct marketing opportunities. Commtouch offers the most scalable and innovative email messaging solution in Japanese. Commtouch Custom Mail includes calendar, address book and to-do list capabilities, operates with imported address books and offers advanced HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. composition features enabling users to choose font, size, color and backgrounds in Japanese. The Company partners with internationally recognized consumer-driven organizations, including Ericsson, Excite International, First USA, Go2Net, McGraw Hill's BusinessWeek Magazine, Discovery Channel Online, Microsoft, Nippon Telephone & Telegraph, ZDNet, Talk City, Netopia, Hachette Multimedia, the McClatchy Group's Nando.net, The Headbone Zone, News Corp. and People's Daily The People's Daily (Chinese: 人民日报; Pinyin: Rénmín Rìbào), a daily newspaper, is the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, published worldwide joint venture ChinaByte and the Hollinger Group's Jerusalem Post. Founded in 1991, Commtouch has offices in Silicon Valley, London, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest . Additional information in English may be obtained by visiting www.Commtouch.com; additional information in Japanese may be obtained by visiting www.japan.Commtouch.com. Note to Editors: Commtouch is a registered trademark of Commtouch Software Ltd. Terms and product names in this document may be trademarks of others. |
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