The Mobility Project & Everyone.net Introduce MobilityEmail.net Service to Protect Email Users on Shared Computers from Identity Theft.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Portable Solution Secures Email Use on Shared Computers at the Library, College, a Friend or Relative's House, Hotel, or Cyber Cafe The Mobility Project, a Free Software development community, has teamed with Everyone.net (www.everyone.net), a leading provider of private-label email services for businesses, individuals and service providers, to provide a complete solution for email users who are concerned about identity theft and privacy when using a shared computer. MobilityEmail.net combines hardened email software from The Mobility Project with reliable email service from Everyone.net that can be carried on portable USB memory See USB drive. sticks, or even an iPod. MobilityEmail.net users simply connect their USB memory stick to most any Windows-based PC, and open the secure, self-contained Mobility Email The Mobility Email client makes use of Mozilla Mail (Thunderbird) code and aspects of the portable launcher code used in the now-defunct Portable Thunderbird with Enigmail (PTEG) maintained by John Urbanek. program to send and receive messages. Email data is managed securely on the USB memory stick. No personal data is left behind once users remove the USB memory stick, unlike using an email program See e-mail program. or web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. that resides on the shared computer, which leaves behind personal profiles and temporary files even after logging out. Key Features --Use email securely on a shared computer. --Carry email safely on an inexpensive, portable USB memory stick. --All email data is self-contained on the USB memory stick. Nothing is left behind on the shared computer. --Account login Signing in and gaining access to a network server, Web server or other computer system. The process (the noun) is a "login" or "logon," while the act of doing it (the verb) is to "log in" or to "log on. is protected from being intercepted by spyware, or keystroke loggers often found on public computers, which target 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. passwords. --Industry standard message encryption (OpenPGP and S/MIME See MIME. ) is built-in to the Mobility Email program for advanced users. --The MobilityEmail.net service keeps a synchronized backup of email and folders. Simply install the Mobility Email program onto a new USB memory stick if the old one is lost. --MobilityEmail.net accounts are protected against spam and viruses. "A Pew Internet and American Life Project survey found that nearly a quarter of U.S. Internet users go online at libraries, schools, and friends' houses," said Brian Nakamoto, Senior Product Manager at Everyone.net. "MobilityEmail.net makes it easy for people to manage their email -- securely -- when they use a shared computer." "MobilityEmail.net helps protect users when they check their email," said Shane Coughlan, Mobility Project Team Leader. "Identity thieves use public computers to collect email passwords because it's a means to gain access to more sensitive accounts. Mobility Email communicates securely with the MobilityEmail.net service so there's no password to capture, and it's completely self-contained on the USB memory stick carried with you." Pricing & Availability The MobilityEmail.net service is $24.95 a year for one email account email account email n → compte m (e-)mail , which includes the Mobility Email program. Sign up for a 14-day free trial of MobilityEmail.net at http://www.mobilityemail.net. To see the MobilityEmail.net service in use, go to http://www.everyone.net/pr-mobilityemail.html. To celebrate the launch of MobilityEmail.net, Everyone.net will send a USB memory stick to the first 50 paid users in the U.S. About The Mobility Project The Mobility Project is about making innovative communication solutions for real people. It does this through Free (as in 'freedom') Software, and in partnership with individuals and companies around the world. The Mobility Project is sponsored and hosted by Opendawn.com, a communications consultancy based in the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community . For more information visit http://mobility.opendawn.com/. About Everyone.net Based in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , Everyone.net (www.everyone.net) offers highly reliable, secure, hosted email solutions for businesses, service providers, and individuals. The company's mission is to provide the advantages of carrier-class email without the expense or complexity, thus enabling customers to focus on what they do best. The company's fully customizable email solutions are built on a highly scalable infrastructure, and include advanced services such as IMAP IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol and push email as well as anti-spam and virus protection. Having provisioned over 30 million mailboxes for over 300,000 domains, Everyone.net has been reliably delivering email solutions around the world since 1998. Everyone.net is a registered trademark of Everyone.net, Inc. 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