60 Reporters Use RadioMail Wireless Messaging At COMDEX
LAS VEGAS — November 15, 1993 — RadioMail Corporation, in conjunction with Motorola, RAM Mobile Data and ARDIS, has arranged to provide free wireless messaging service this week to approximately 60 journalists covering the Comdex show here.
Journalists participating in the program are using their own laptop and portable computers — DOS, Windows and Macintosh platforms — with RF modems, networking, software and messaging services provided by the four sponsoring companies. Motorola is supplying its new InfoTAC wireless modems, RAM and ARDIS their wireless network services, and RadioMail its two-way subscription messaging service.
Ed Forman, RadioMail's vice president of marketing, said, "As the biggest, busiest industry trade show, Comdex can be a journalist's nightmare. Perhaps the reporters' worst headache is finding a phone jack to plug in their computers so they can communicate with their home office or other people in Las Vegas.
"With RadioMail the journalists can send and receive messages on their portables from anywhere — the show floor, a conference session, restaurant or taxi," Forman said. "Even if they sneak away to the casino they can stay in touch." How RadioMail Two-Way Wireless Messaging Works
Suppose a reporter at Comdex in Las Vegas wants to send an e-mail message to his editor in Boston. After being assigned a RadioMailbox(TM) address, he enters the message on his portable/ laptop/palmtop personal computer. The InfoTAC wireless modem, attached by cable to the computer, transmits the message over the RAM or ARDIS radio network to RadioMail's wireless public messaging gateway in San Mateo, Calif. The message is then sent from RadioMail to Boston via the appropriate wired or wireless messaging service (e.g., the global Internet, America Online, CompuServe, MCI Mail, Prodigy, AT&T EasyLink, RadioMail) or through gateways to LAN mail systems such as Lotus cc:Mail. The entire process takes an average of 28 seconds. A return message follows the same path in reverse, alerting the user via an audible "beep" when it arrives at his laptop; no logon is necessary either to send or receive mail.
RadioMail also provides a one-way service that lets users send messages to paging devices and personal digital assistants such as Apple Computer's Newton PDA.
RadioMail Corporation, founded in 1988, is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. The company is privately held.
CONTACT:
RadioMail Corp.
Ed Forman, 415/286-7800 or ed.forman@radiomail.net Ulevich & Orrange Inc.
William Orrange or Janis Ulevich, 415/329-1590