Send and Receive Messages from Almost Anywhere; RadioMail Bundled on Motorola Envoy Personal Wireless Communicator
SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 7, 1994 — Your electronic messages can follow you and you can respond — no matter where you go — with the help of RadioMail's wireless services on the Motorola Envoy personal wireless communicator.
RadioMail, a two-way wireless messaging service from RadioMail Corp. of San Mateo, Calif., will allow messages and information to reach Envoy communicator users in virtually any location — whether they're sitting at a sidewalk cafe, waiting in an airport terminal between flights, or stuck in a cab in city traffic.
"RadioMail is the first wireless 'follow-me' communication service," said Geoffrey S. Goodfellow, RadioMail chairman and founder. "There's no voice-mail tag, no plugging a computer in, no running to find a telephone when your pager goes off. The Envoy communicator alerts you with a 'beep' when a new messages comes in, and without moving an inch you can respond wirelessly to any e-mail address in the world. You can also send messages directly to fax machines and pagers, reaching virtually anyone instantly."
When the Envoy communicator sends a message, it travels to a tower on the ARDIS national radio-frequency network, and from there to its destination — desktop or portable computer, personal communicator, fax machine or pager.
RadioMail's NewsFactory(TM), a wireless information delivery service, provides news, sports, business and financial information gathered from 16 newswire sources. Headlines, summaries and the Dow Jones average are updated throughout the day.
The RadioMail messaging service, which has been operating for several years on portable computers (DOS systems, Apple PowerBooks, HP Palmtop PCs), is bundled with the Envoy communicator, which is based on General Magic's Magic Cap platform.
Goodfellow called Envoy communicator "the first truly ideal vehicle for RadioMail. Until now the user had to tote around a computing device plus a separate modem that often weighed more than the computer. This is the first device small enough to always keep with you that pulls together the computer, the modem, the application, the service — everything you need to communicate data and messages wirelessly."
Pat Richardson, vice president and general manager of Motorola's Subscriber Products Division, said, "The success of the new generation of personal communicators will depend upon how much these devices do for users. RadioMail provides a new category of communication service which truly complements our new Envoy communicator, enabling the user to realize its true potential."
RadioMail software will be bundled free of charge with all Envoy personal wireless communicators. RadioMail service will be charged at a monthly rate based on usage.
RadioMail Corp. is a leading supplier of two-way wireless messaging and information services for portable computer and personal communicating device users. Only RadioMail wireless services guarantee messages delivery without any intervention on the part of the subscriber. RadioMail offers development tools to enable independent software vendors to create wireless applications that access the RadioMail public gateway.
The RadioMail public gateway provides seamless connectivity between users on incompatible wireless networks such as RAM and ARDIS; to corporate LAN email systems such as Lotus cc:Mail; to public access systems such as MCI Mail, ATT Mail, America Online, Prodigy and CompuServe; and to the worldwide Internet. The gateway also offers connections to facsimile machines, paging networks, public and private databases, and information services.
Note to Editors: RadioMail is a registered trademark of RadioMail Corp. All other trademarks belong to their respective companies.
CONTACT:
RadioMail Corp., San Jose
Ed Forman, 415/286-7800
or
Ulevich & Orrange Inc.
William Orrange or Janis Ulevich, 415/329-1590