- Company to Showcase Soda-Pop Mail Lite
and Email Executive at CTIA Wireless 2003 -
NEW ORLEANS - March 17, 2003 - Tourmaline Networks, Inc., a developer
of wireless software applications, today announced the titles
of its latest email products, Soda-Pop Mail Lite and Email Executive,
developed for QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless™;
(BREW™) platform. The company will be demonstrating the downloadable
and easy-to-use wireless email applications in QUALCOMM's BREW
Partner Pavilion at CTIA Wireless 2003 in New Orleans, March 17-19.
Soda-Pop Mail Lite offers one of the most user-friendly and low-cost
wireless email applications available today. The application will
enable wireless subscribers with BREW-enabled handsets to easily
access their existing publicly accessible Hotmail, Yahoo!, and
other POP3 email accounts with minimal phone clicks.
Email Executive is ideal for small business users and consumers
who want sophisticated wireless email access, but don't want to
carry a second device. It offers a premium wireless email package
at a fraction of the cost of a monthly wireless PDA service.
The new products compliment Tourmaline Network's successful Soda-Pop
Mail that allows users of popular email accounts to send and receive
messages through their BREW-enabled mobile phones. Soda Pop Mail
is currently available through Verizon Wireless' Get It Nowä service
and ALLTEL's Axcess service.
"Soda-Pop Mail has achieved rapid acceptance because it provides
affordable, easy-to-use email with robust features on users' mobile
phones," said Basil Abifaker, vice president of marketing, Tourmaline
Networks. "The BREW platform has made it easy for us to expand
our suite of wireless email products with Soda-Pop Mail Lite and
Email Executive to give customers a choice that best suits their
needs."
Tourmaline Networks continues to lead the way in the development
of useful email applications for today's mobile consumer," said
Jan Lezny, senior director of developer and OEM relations, QUALCOMM
Internet Services. "We expect these new BREW-based applications
to follow in the footsteps of Soda-Pop Mail and be a big draw
for subscribers who require or desire constant access to their
email."
More information on Soda-Pop Mail Lite and Email
Executive can be found at
www.tourmalinenetworks.com
QUALCOMM's BREW™ solution is a complete product and business
ecosystem for the development and over-the-air deployment of data
services on wireless devices. The BREW solution provides the necessary
tools and value-added services to developers, device manufacturers
and wireless operators for applications development and distribution,
device configuration and billing and payment.
About Tourmaline Networks, Inc.
Tourmaline Networks, Inc. is a wireless software applications
company developing solutions for the mobile Internet. The company
is a certified BREW developer and has partnerships with QUALCOMM,
Verizon and ALLTEL. The company is headquartered in Solana Beach,
CA. For more information refer to www.tourmalinenetworks.com
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Tourmaline Networks Contacts:
Eric Johnson, President
ericjohnson@tourmalinenetworks.com
(+1) 619 994-1434
or
Basil Abifaker, VP, Marketing
basilabifaker@tourmalinenetworks.com
(+1) 858-449-3341
Soda-Pop Mail is a trademark of Tourmaline Networks, Inc. QUALCOMM,
BREW and BREW SDK are trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated. All
other company or product names are trademarks and/or registered
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