CIDCO Showcases MailStation At Digital Living Room.MORGAN HILL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 1999-- Classic Information Appliance See Internet appliance. (hardware) Information Appliance - (IA) A consumer device that performs only a few targeted tasks and is controlled by a simple touch-screen interface or push buttons on the device's enclosure. For The Post PC Era To Provide Simple and Easy Access to E-Mail For A Mass Consumer Audience CIDCO CIDCO City and Industrial Development Corporation (Mumbai, India) Incorporaidly becoming one of the most commonly utilized communication mediums, the MailStation is a convenient, portable, affordable, and easy-to-use device. In addition to the MailStation being demonstrated, CIDCO will also participate in a "giveaway" where attendees may be the recipients of a free MailStation. Digital Living Room is a show produced and hosted by David Coursey and presented by Upside Upside The potential dollar amount by which the market or a stock could rise. Notes: This is basically an educated guess on how high a stock could go in the near future. See also: Bull, Downside Magazine. This is a conference aimed at high level executives and focuses on companies that are working to bring digital technology into the home and provide a venue in which to view products and services that will shape the future. The conference gathers people from the Internet, consumer electronics, computer and content industries to analyze and help make sense of changes in consumer electronics, computing, buying habits, entertainment and help explain how the world changes when analog consumers move to a digital world. The goal of this conference is to establish a vision of the future based in the realities of today's technology and the promise of tomorrow's. "Digital Living Room provides a great opportunity for the first-time public demonstration of the MailStation and also shows how this device is at the forefront of a new generation of communication tools," said CIDCO's director of product management, David L'Heureux. "The MailStation is a dedicated information appliance customized to the individual user and enabling consumers to obtain information and handle interpersonal communications Interpersonal communication is the process of sending and receiving information between two or more people. Types of Interpersonal Communication This kind of communication is subdivided into dyadic communication, Public speaking, and small-group communication. online without a traditional computer." The MailStation weighs in at only 2.2 pounds, is smaller than an 8x11 piece of paper and has an integrated graphical pop-up display screen with a crisp picture-driven user interface and text messages. Additionally, the MailStation comes with a nearly full size keyboard that is 85 percent as large as that found on a standard PC and enables numerous e-mails to be composed with ease. Capable of operating on AA batteries for portability or via AC wiring, the MailStation arrives completely configured with the user's pre-selected e-mail address See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address and Internet settings. The device only requires connection to any standard telephone jack for immediate sending and receiving of e-mail messages. Battery powered, the device is portable for use in any room in the home or outside of the home while out on the road. CIDCO's MailStation is available now at the toll free 800 number, 1-800-718-1242 and will be available in July from the company's web site (www.cidco.com). User's can purchase the device for $99.95 when a year's subscription to the CIDCO MailStation  The Cidco MailStation is a portable e-mail terminal first introduced by Cidco in 1999 at Amazon.com and was marketed as the Mivo 100 by EarthLink. service is paid for in advance. Should the user wish to pay
the service charge on a month-to-month basis with no time commitment,
the MailStation will retail for $149.95 and $9.95 a month.
To provide consumers with increased functionality, the MailStation provides an electronic calendar/address book that can store up to 1,000 contacts and a 20,000-word spellchecker. For increased simplicity, the device also provides an add author function which enables the user to automatically save an e-mail address of any person who sent them a message and allows printing and faxing ability directly from the device. These functions not only provide the user the ability to send and receive e-mail in a cost effective and simple manner, but also allows them to perform functions not available in many other devices in this category. MAILSTATION PROVIDES INFORMATION SERVICES See Information Systems. ALONGSIDE E-MAIL The MailStation delivers e-mail and more. Each MailStation user receives an e-mail account e-mail account n → cuenta de correo and unlimited e-mail usage. Through CIDCO's ClipMail(TM) technology (soon to be provided along with the unlimited e-mail usage in the unit's $9.95 monthly service charge), consumers will be able to take advantage of other information services such as weather reports, financial information, sports, news and a range of additional information commonly found through the Internet. MailStation users can have up to five individual e-mail accounts on the unit for an additional $3.00 per month. Additionally, the MailStation monthly service also provides a web-based mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). that will mirror all of the user's messages received on the MailStation. This has been designed for users to receive attachment files or large volumes of mail not designed to be handled by the first generation MailStation. About CIDCO, Incorporated CIDCO Incorporated (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CDCO CDCO Curriculum Design, Content and Organization CDCO Classified Document Control Office ), founded in 1988, is a worldwide leader in telephony products, services and appliances that empower consumers to communicate simply and easily over advanced networks and the Internet. Through its alliances with many of the world's leading telephone companies, CIDCO develops advanced network appliances (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything such as network feature telephones, Caller ID A telephone company service that sends the caller's telephone number between the first and second ring of the call. If the calling number is not blocked, the calling number is displayed on the handset or base station of the called party. devices, voice mail navigation appliances and Internet appliances Also called "information appliance," "smart appliance," and "Web appliance," it is a device specialized for accessing the Web and/or e-mail. Designed for ease of use, it plugs into a telephone jack or LAN connection for Internet hookup. that enable consumers to maximize the value of telephony networks and Internet services. CIDCO introduced its first Internet appliance in 1998 for a world moving into the developing Internet appliance era and is extending this vision to devices that will make e-mail and other information services readily available to consumers that don't have access to or require traditional computers. The company is headquartered in Morgan Hill, California Morgan Hill (IPA: /ˈmɔrgɨn ˈhɪl/) is a city located in the southern part of Santa Clara County, California, USA. at the south end of Silicon Valley. For additional information, visit www.cidco.com or call (408)779-1162. MailStation and ClipMail are trademarks of CIDCO Incorporated. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. In addition to the historical information contained herein, this press release may contain forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. within the meaning of the Federal securities laws and are subject to the safe harbors Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. created thereby. The following are among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements: business conditions and growth in the telecommunications industry and general economies, both domestic and international; lower than expected customer orders; competitive factors; changes in product mix or distribution channels; and technological difficulties and resource constraints encountered in developing and/or introducing new products. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release regarding industry trends, product development and introductions, sales, and future business activities should be considered in light of these factors and those factors discussed from time to time in the Company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as those discussed under " Factors that May Affect Future Results in the Company's report on form 10K for the year ended December 31, 1999. |
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