QUALCOMM offers Eudora Pro e-mail software to Republican National Convention attendees.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 1996--QUALCOMM 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 :QCOM QCOM Qualcomm, Inc. (stock symbol) ) plans to offer thousands of copies of its award-winning Eudora Pro Internet e-mail software to attendees at the Republican National Convention in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Aug. 11-15, 1996. Nearly 20,000 GOP delegates and media will receive a time-expiring free trial copy of Eudora Pro 2.2 for Windows upon registration at this year's convention. The Eudora family is currently the world's most popular Internet e-mail software with more than 10 million users, 63.5 percent worldwide market share for Internet e-mail, and 70.9 percent share of all new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. electronic mailboxes. "Electronic communications is a quick, easy and cost-effective way for constituents and their government officials to communicate," stated Craig Brenner, director of Worldwide Marketing, Eudora division of QUALCOMM. "Eudora Pro is the No. 1 choice of Internet e-mail users everywhere, and we want to ensure conventioneers get an opportunity to sample its best-of-class capability," added Brenner. 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. Highway 1, a Washington-based technology advocacy group, 87 percent of U.S. Senators and 45 percent of House Representatives listed e-mail addresses as of June 1, 1996. These numbers mark a sharp increase from May of last year when less than 35 percent of Senators and 20 percent of House Representatives had e-mail addresses. "This undertaking represents our single largest one-time, free mass distribution of Eudora Pro to date," explained Brenner. "It's an extension of our belief in seeding the market with free products -- a highly successful initiative we helped pioneer years ago with the distribution of Eudora Light freeware." Eudora Pro software is available through nearly all major U.S. retail chains, including Egghead Software This article is about historical United States software retailer. For other uses for the word "egghead", see Egghead (disambiguation). Egghead Software was founded in 1984 as a computer software retail company. , CompUSA, Best Buy, MicroCenter and Fry's Electronics Fry's Electronics is a specialty retailer of software, consumer electronics, computer hardware and household appliances with a chain of superstores headquartered in Silicon Valley. Starting with one store located in Sunnyvale, California, USA, the chain now boasts sales of $2. . Eudora Pro software is also available through mail order catalogs, such as Multiple Zones International (MAC Zone and PC Zone) and PC Connection Inc. (MAC Connection and PC Connection), giving Eudora Pro software excellent market exposure in every key channel. Eudora Pro software for PC and Macintosh computers carries a suggested list price of $89. Eudora Light software is free and is available from QUALCOMM at http://www.eudora.com. QUALCOMM's award-winning Eudora Pro and Eudora Light software are Internet-based e-mail packages that deliver exceptional levels of functionality, ease of use and flexibility. Originally introduced in 1988, Eudora is the world's most popular Internet e-mail software with an estimated 10 million users worldwide. Available for the PC, Macintosh and Newton platforms, the Eudora software family of products delivers best-of-breed Internet e-mail capabilities. Eudora Pro builds upon the Eudora Light feature set by offering a wide range of additional features, including enhanced user-definable message filtering, built-in spell checking and MAPI (Mail API) A programming interface from Microsoft that enables a client application to send to and receive mail from Exchange Server or a Microsoft Mail (MS Mail) messaging system. Microsoft applications such as Outlook, the Exchange client and Microsoft Schedule use MAPI. support. For more information regarding the Eudora family of products, visit its World Wide Web site at http://www.eudora.com. With headquarters in San Diego, QUALCOMM develops, manufactures, markets, licenses and operates advanced communications systems and products based on its proprietary digital wireless technologies. The company's primary product areas are the OmniTRACS system (a geo-stationary satellite-based, mobile communications system providing two-way data and position reporting services), CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. wireless communications systems and products and, in conjunction with others, the development of the Globalstar low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite communications system. Other company products include the Eudora Pro electronic mail software, VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. components, and communications equipment and systems for government and commercial customers worldwide. For more information regarding QUALCOMM's products and technologies, visit its World Wide Web site at http://www.qualcomm.com. Except for the historical information herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including timely product development, change in economic conditions of the various markets the company serves, as well as the other risk detailed from time to time in the company's SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended Sept. 24, 1995, and most recent Form 10-Qs. -0- NOTE: Eudora is a registered trademark of the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
CONTACT: QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego Julie Cunningham, 619/658-4224 619/658-4957 (fax) juliec@qualcomm.com (e-mail) or QUALCOMM Incorporated, Eudora Division Ed Knowlton, 619/658-2384 eknowlton@qualcomm.com (e-mail) or The Benjamin Group, Inc. Maureen Cappon-Javey, 408/559-6090 mcjavey@sv.tbgi.com (e-mail) |
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