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Webaroo Introduces Enhanced Version of the Free Mobile Offline Web; New Version Enables People to Easily Save Bookmarks, Audio, Video and Document Attachments and Provides Greater User Control.


SEATTLE -- Webaroo, the creator of the searchable web offline, today introduces a powerful and dramatically improved version of Webaroo's patent-pending software people can download free at www.webaroo.com.

"There is definitely a growing interest in accessing Internet content on mobile devices, but consumers have been challenged with small screens and slow but expensive connections," said Rob Enderle Rob Enderle, founder of the Enderle Group, is a consultant, writer, and widely quoted technical and legal analyst in the information technology industry. Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices, the SCO Group, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell are (or have been) among his clients. , Principal Analyst Enderle Research Group. "Webaroo is a wonderful way to provide the experience of a fast broad band connection on a disconnected mobile device nearly eliminating the drawbacks of slow or unavailable wireless networks and high cellular Internet costs."

"We've received great feedback over the past few months from all over the world and have improved our service to meet customer requests. People now have great control over the content they mobilize with Webaroo, can easily save bookmarks, video and audio attachments, and save web sites more completely and easily," said Beerud Sheth, Webaroo CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey.  and Co-founder.

Webaroo's newest innovations in the upgraded service include:

--Increased Control: Several new features have been integrated to provide deeper management and manipulation of each person's custom, mobile web. Now people can save a web site up to 'five links deep' while controlling the download size with easy settings for the number of pages to save or the amount of hard disk space to occupy.

--Easily Add Favorite Bookmarks: People can now import bookmarks from IE and Firefox browsers into Webaroo in one simple step.

--Support for Saving Multimedia Attachments: Webaroo now supports downloading embedded Inserted into. See embedded system.  attachments on websites including documents, audio and video content. People can easily limit download attachment sizes.

--Browser Button for Adding Web Pages and Sites: A new Webaroo button seamlessly implemented into Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software.  or Firefox browsers makes it easy to add websites and web pages to Webaroo as people browse. People can also add email correspondences.

--Content Location Control: People now have the option to select the location on their hard disk where the offline web is stored. For maximum convenience, they receive an alert when the maximum disk space limit is approaching.

Search ... unplugged begins at www.webaroo.com. It is compatible with computers running Windows XP The previous client version of Windows. XP was a major upgrade to the client version of Windows 2000 with numerous changes to the user interface. XP improved support for gaming, digital photography, instant messaging, wireless networking and sharing connections to the Internet.  and Windows 2000 and handhelds running Windows Pocket PC 2003 SE or Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center.  5.0. Support for further mobile device operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap.  coming soon.

About Webaroo

Webaroo is the pioneer and leading provider of offline web technology. Webaroo is a free software service that allows people to download web content onto their laptops and mobile devices and search it anytime, anywhere, without a connection. Founded in 2004, the company has offices in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba
Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba.
 (California), Bellevue (Washington), Mumbai (India) and New Delhi New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River.  (India). Webaroo brings together a world-class team of entrepreneurs, researchers and engineers to deliver innovative products that provide fast, free and ubiquitous access to web content.
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