China Mobile Selects Asia.com for Value-Added Services; Asia.com To Provide Travel and Entertainment Services To Selected 200,000 Subscribers in China.Business/Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2000 Asia.com, Inc., a leading provider of wireless and Internet business services in Asia, today announced it has been selected by China Mobile to provide value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. services to its VIP subscribers in China. Asia.com is majority owned subsidiary of Mail.com, Inc. (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 :MAIL), a leading global provider of outsourced messaging services to enterprises, carriers, ISPs and Web sites. China Mobile is one of the largest telecommunications companies in China, providing mobile telephone services to over 60 million consumers in China. Through Asia.com's application platforms, China Mobile's subscribers can get real-time wireless access to its travel and entertainment services. The selected 200,000 VIP subscribers in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Wuhan will enjoy the benefit of Asia.com's Travel and Entertainment Card to get discounted rates at over 1,000 hotels and more than 3,000 dining and entertainment venues in China. With Asia.com's wireless SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. function, hotel and restaurant merchants can send promotional messages to these mobile phone subscribers. China Mobile plans to expand this service and other wireless services powered by Asia.com to more cities in China China is a geographical area encompassing multiple territories, under two states. You may be looking for:
"Today's consumers need fast and real-time access at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. ," said Allan Kwan, chief executive officer of Asia.com. "Asia.com has the applications and expertise to help China Mobile to meet their customers' needs. We are pleased to be working with industry leaders such as China Mobile to expand the wireless market." About Asia.com Asia.com, Inc. is the leading provider of wireless and Internet business services in Asia. The Company enables businesses to leverage the power of wireless technologies and the growth of Internet to increase sales, create efficiencies, improve communications, and decrease costs. Asia.com has developed a scalable, flexible technology and a powerful online and wireless platform. Asia.com has operations in thirteen cities throughout Asia. By targeting fast growing areas of the economy including travel, finance, real estate, entertainment and outsourced business services, Asia.com is leveraging its Internet and WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. technology to truly revolutionize the way business is conducted in Asia. Asia.com is a majority owned subsidiary of Mail.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAIL). About Mail.com Mail.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAIL) is a leading global provider of outsourced messaging services to the enterprise, carriers, ISPs and Web sites. The Company's solution set includes hosted Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. , Novell GroupWise GroupWise is a cross-platform collaborative software product from Novell, Inc. offering e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging and document management. Summary GroupWise can operate on a number of server and workstation platforms. and Web/POP3-based e-mail and collaboration services; hosted e-mail firewall services such as virus scanning, spam blocking and content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software. ; and a full range of Web-based, desktop and production Internet Fax Using the Internet to send faxes. Fax servers accept an incoming fax message and route it to a fax server in the same locality as the destination fax machine. The fax server then makes a local telephone call to send the fax. solutions. Mail.com has IP network facilities in 20 key countries and currently serves more than 20.4 million seats and over 10,000 corporate customers worldwide. Mail.com's subsidiary, WORLD.com, Inc is a majority owner of Asia.com, Inc., a leading provider of wireless and Internet business services across Asia, and India.com, Inc., a leading supplier of e-commerce and Internet services in India. This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the future events or the future financial results of Mail.com. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements, including the matters set forth in Mail.com's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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