Critical Path Launches German Email Service for Chip Magazine; Over 90,000 Subscribers Will Be Offered Free Email Accounts at www.chip.de.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 1998--CHIP Magazine, a leading computing computing - computer magazine in the German computer market for over 20 years, and Critical Path, GmbH, a leading email services See Internet e-mail service. provider, today announced the availability of free 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. for CHIP Magazine subscribers. CHIP will notify almost 90,000 subscribers in their December issue that they may access their new email accounts email account email n → compte m (e-)mail by pointing any Web-enable browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used to www.chip.de and selecting the secure CHIP email log in to the CHIP Club Service. The Web-based email interface developed by Critical Path has been customized for CHIP's readers. The accounts feature: -- Convenient anytime, anywhere access from any browser-enabled Internet device -- Confidential electronic address books -- Comprehensive spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). blocking -- End-user filtering capability to sort incoming email messages -- POPemail message retrieval to enable users to consolidate messages from multiple email accounts. "All of us at Critical Path are thrilled to announce CHIP as our first partner in Germany," said Karl Klarmann, managing director of Central European Sales for Critical Path GmbH. David Hayden, founder and chairman of Critical Path Inc., said, "Launching our German language service with an industry leading publication gives Critical Path a jump start to expand our services throughout Central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe. ." CHIP subscribers who have not yet received their CHIP Club notification and account password may contact tigervision inc. (wgruener@tigervision.net) for more information. About Critical Path Inc. Critical Path GmbH is a subsidiary of Critical Path Inc., a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation founded in 1997, with venture backing from Benchmark Capital Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups, including eBay. In 1995, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999 and resulted in one of Silicon ; Mohr, Davidow Ventures; SOFTBANK Holdings Inc.; E
RADE Group (NASDAQ: EGRP); and @Ventures, a division of CMG
Information Services Inc. (NASDAQ: CMGI).
With a mission to "handle the world' s email," the company has
built an industry-leading global infrastructure with data centers
connected to key Internet exchange points, and is currently under
contract to host over four million mailboxes for ISPs, Web hosting
companies, Web portals and corporations.
Critical Path has offices in Munich, Germany, and maintains its
global headquarters in San Francisco, California. For more
information, please call Critical Path at +1 (415) 808-8800, or visit
the Critical Path Web site at www.cp.net.
About CHIP
The computer magazine CHIP, one of the magazines of Vogel
Computer Presse, is a leading computing magazine in Germany. CHIP
provides in-depth coverage of trends in the computing industry,
together with the latest factual information on developments in
technology. Vogel Computer Presse, a division of the Vogel Medien
Gruppe, has been providing print and electronic special interest
magazines for over 20 years.
Critical Path and the Critical Path logo are trademarks of
Critical Path Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
holders.
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