SEVEN Offers Consumers Fast and Easy Access to Mobile Email.SEVEN's Growth Accelerates as It Extends Push Email Solution to Mainstream Consumers BARCELONA, Spain -- SEVEN, the global market leader in push email software, today announced the availability of its Consumer Edition push email solution. SEVEN's Consumer Edition is easy for consumers to use and its simplicity encourages consumers to continue using the solution. In the past six months, the solution has been launched with several major carriers around the world and subsequently subscriber growth has increased 50 percent, from 100,000 new subscribers in the second fiscal quarter of 2006 to 150,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter. One-Click Access to Popular Internet Email Services SEVEN's Consumer Edition powers push email solutions for the world's leading wireless providers, including several tier one U.S. carriers, bringing mobile email access to the mass consumer market. The solution is available on today's most popular handsets, providing instant access to email on consumer centric clamshell and bar phones as well as on today's best-selling smartphones. Whatever the handset, accessed information is immediately available online and offline, so consumers can compose emails or review messages on the go, and will always be connected - bringing mobility to the email experience. SEVEN's Consumer Edition makes it easy for consumers to discover and access their email. The icon for the email solution can be found on the home screen of mobile phones when the solution is pre-loaded, or with just a few clicks of the keypad, making it as easy to access an email as it is to check a voicemail. The solution provides access to multiple email accounts with today's most popular Internet email providers as well as standard POP and IMAP IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol services, so consumers can monitor emails from many sources on their mobile. Signing up for the service is easy. Users simply enter their email account username and password on their mobile device. Key features of SEVEN's Consumer Edition include: * The ability to manage and navigate between multiple accounts simultaneously * Automatically pushes new emails to mobile phones in real-time, providing consumers with fast and easy access to any updates or changes to their inbox, contacts or other email folders. * Local storage of email on the device, allowing new email to be opened in a fraction of a second * Read and reply to messages while outside data coverage, such as on an airplane, and save messages sending later. * Truly connected experience, any activity done on a mobile phone, such as reading email, or sending new messages, is instantaneously reflected on the customer's email service Great Potential for Mobile Email Mobile email potential is globally ranked second only to SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. 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In North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , respondents ranked mobile email above text messaging and mobile instant messaging Mobile Instant Messaging abbreviated as MIM is a presence enabled messaging service that aims to transpose the Internet desktop messaging such as ICQ or MSN experience to the usage scenario of being connected via a mobile/cellular device. in importance. As operators have begun including mobile email as part of standard data plans, mobile email is poised to become as prevalent as voicemail. "Bringing mobile email to everyone has always been a long-term goal with SEVEN," said Ross Bott bott n. Variant of bot1. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SEVEN. "Our Consumer Edition solution allows millions of consumers to access email on their phone. When mobile phones were first introduced to the market, the enterprise market and road warrior A person who frequently travels with laptop and cellphone. executives were the early adopters and helped push innovation to bring mobile phones to consumers. Now, enterprise customers have again cleared the way as we make mobile email a mainstream application for consumers." About SEVEN SEVEN is a global provider of software that enables mobile operators, Internet email providers and service providers to offer their subscribers secure, low-cost, real-time access to business and personal email applications. SEVEN's software is specialized to meet the unique needs and requirements of the Fortune 500 enterprise, the small-to-medium organization, workgroups, individual professionals and consumers. The SEVEN software supports all major device platforms, including BREW, J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition) A version of Java 2 for cellphones, PDAs and consumer appliances. J2ME uses the K Virtual Machine (KVM), a specialized Java interpreter for devices with limited memory. , Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Mobile, Palm OS and Symbian-based phones, and currently ships on over 200 mobile phone models manufactured by Hitachi, HTC HTC HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Component HTC High Tech Computer Corp (Taiwan, China) HTC Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota) HTC High-Throughput Computing , HP, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Sanyo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson For an arrangement of Sony Ericsson products, see list of Sony Ericsson products Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established in 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones. and Toshiba. SEVEN is available today across major international network standards, and has been chosen by 100 leading mobile operators and service providers worldwide including: including Alltel, Bharti, Cingular Wireless, Etisalat, Globe Telecom, Hutchison, KDDI Corp., NTT DoCoMo, O2, Optus, Orange, Sprint Nextel, Starhub, Telefonica Moviles, Telenor Group, Telkom Indonesia, Vimpelcom and Yahoo!. SEVEN is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, USA, with local offices around the globe. For additional information, visit www.seven.com. SEVEN is a registered trademark of Seven Networks, Inc. Always-On Mail, Out of the Office, System SEVEN, SEVEN Personal Edition, SEVEN Enterprise Edition, and SEVEN Server Edition are also trademarks or service marks of Seven Networks, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks or trade names are those of their respective owners. 1 http://www.gsmworld.com/news/press_2006/press06_61.shtml |
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