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11 August, 2006 10:03 print this article email this article to a friend

ThinPrint pushes email to mobile phones for 4.98 euros

The mobile computing expert ThinPrint has started Cortado,
a direct push mail services based on Microsoft Exchange. Cortado gives users with Windows mobile devices their emails as direct push without delay. The service, which can be booked at http://www.cortado.co.uk, costs 4.98 euros a month. The contract can be canceled on a month to month basis. In addition to the direct push function, ThinPrint will consecutively add other services to the Cortado service to enable attachments to be read, faxed, or printed via bluetooth or infrared without first being downloaded. Interested parties who register now can use Cortado for 2 months free of charge.

After registering, customers receive an email address with the Cortado domain. All emails sent to this account are sent to the user’s mobile phone with direct push and without delay. Requirement for the use of Cortado is an end device with a Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system and the Microsoft Messaging & Security feature pack, which is usually already installed on most available end devices or will soon be available for download from the carriers.

"With Cortado, every user with a Windows mobile devices can now enjoy the advantages of push mail without having to run a Microsoft Exchange Server," explains Carsten Mickeleit, Managing Director at ThinPrint GmbH. "We have a convincing product – not just because of the low price of 4.98 euros a month, but above all because of the unique future Content Beamer functions, like reading attachments without downloading them."

"The Cortado Services of our Gold Certified Partners ThinPrint are exemplary for Hosted Exchange because ThinPrint not only hosts Exchange, it  expands our entire Direct Push technology with its own extensive mobile business services", states Thomas Geh, ISV Partner Account Manager at Microsoft. "Cortado brings a true added value for every Smartphone and uses the Microsoft Smart Client solution approach for software as service."

The ThinPrint Hosting Center Cortado was created in cooperation with Hewlett Packard GmbH and the consulting services of Microsoft Deutschland GmbH in Berlin at Interoute.

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