Glide Ad-Free Email Service Goes Live: The Balance of Power Shifts in Favor of Consumers |
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TransMedia
126 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY, 10011
USA
Press release date: December 20, 2007
Glide Provides Personal DRM and Tracking Tools to Consumers to Protect Themselves and Their Files; Say No To Search Engine/Ad Targeting Technology That Reads Your Private Email
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 -- To protect your right to privacy online, TransMedia has launched the Glide Free email service that is free of targeted advertising, provides the most full featured email service available, includes 2GBs of free storage and provides one stop access to your other personal and work email accounts.
"Advertising used to be an art. When done well advertising can be both informative and entertaining," said TransMedia Chairman and CEO, Donald Leka. "Today's online advertising, particularly targeted advertising, is unimaginative, invasive and is violating the confidentiality of our web browsing and personal email. The Glide Free Email Service was designed to provide consumers and businesses with a clear and definitive alternative."
"The Glide Free Email Service redefines email with a full-featured word processor for composing multimedia email messages, sophisticated productivity applications for senders and recipients to edit documents, presentations, spreadsheets, photos, personal websites and more, highly advanced rights based file sharing with automated file translation to easily share universally compatible files - all in a simple to use and powerful collaborative email client," said TransMedia Chairman and CEO, Donald Leka.
"Search engine and ad placement technology is being misused by leading email services to read and monetize your private email. If the Post Office had an x-ray scanning device that could read personal letters and then print advertising on envelopes based on the content of personal letters generating revenue for the government, the public and the media would be up in arms. For the most part, people are unaware of how web mail services and search engine and targeted ad placement technology work together. The Glide Free Email Service solves this problem by not using targeted advertising as the business model behind it's service removing the means and the incentive to read and monetize your personal email," said Mr. Leka.
Glide Email Features
Glide Email is the ideal solution for Windows, Mac and Linux PCs and mobile devices with support for Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, Blackberry and the iPhone and includes the following functionality:
o Centralized Access to All of Your Email Accounts With a Single Login: Think of Glide as an air traffic controller for all of your email. You now have a single runway and landing strip for all of your emails.
o Supercharge your Email Accounts: Glide makes it possible to send and receive large files including videos, music, photos, documents, presentations, spreadsheets, slideshows, music and video playlists, unlimited personal websites and blogs, bookmarks, multimedia calendar events and calendars and more in tiny 5k emails. Files are automatically translated based on the recipients device and OS. Recipients can use Glide's built in productivity and collaboration suite to edit documents, presentations, spreadsheets, photos, personal websites and more.
o Rights Based File Sharing: Assignable rights include: 1) View Only (restrict the number of views); 2) Download (restrict the number of downloads); 3) Modify (non-destructive editing that enables recipients to modify files using Glide's integrated productivity applications); 4) Upload (recipients of your emails can upload files to your email w/assignable file size restrictions). Glide's email statistics feature allows you to track whether recipients have viewed, downloaded, modified or uploaded files. You can always revoke or change access rights at any time.
o Unsend Attachments: Made a mistake? Attached the wrong file(s)? Sent an email to the wrong person(s)? No worries. Use Glide's "Unsend Attachments" feature and links to your attachments are rendered inactive immediately.
o Email Archiving: Archive your email and export to PDF, Glide Write and/or Microsoft Word formats. Backup files of all received and sent email for all of your accounts are stored in "Glide Docs."
o A Full Featured Email Word Processor: Glide provides full Word Processor capabilities to edit and format your emails. You can also directly import body text from your Microsoft Word and Glide Write documents into your email composition and retain formatting; no need to copy and paste between two programs and reformat.
o Sending Group Emails: Glide provides a powerful and flexible solution for sending group emails making it easy to individualize each email and bypass recipient junk mail filters that often mistake group emails as spam. Simply draft your template email and select Glide's breakthrough "Clone" function, select a contact group you would like to send the email to and Glide automatically creates a folder in Drafts and an individually addressed email for each recipient in your group email. You can then personalize each email and schedule when you would like the group of emails to be sent. Your sent group email is neatly stored in a folder in your Sent Email.
Additional Features
o Access your POP3 and IMAP email accounts in Glide o Automated device OS and network recognition and file transcoding to stream media in the right format for the recipients of your emails o Import text from Open Office, Glide Write, Microsoft Word and RTF documents o Export any email to a Glide Write, Microsoft Word, RTF or PDF Document o Glide Email is seamlessly integrated with the Glide Address Book o Add Signatures o Spellcheck o Dictionary o Thesaurus o and much more
What You Get When You Register For Glide
1. Free automated online synchronization of your music, video, documents, presentations, photos, contacts, calendars and bookmarks for Windows, Mac and Linux PCs for anytime, anywhere access on all of your devices;
2. Free automated conversions of your files for access on Windows, Mac and Linux PCs and most smartphones creating universal compatibility;
3. Free mobile access and advanced personal computing capabilities from most smartphones;
4. A free Online Mobile Operating System to manage your digital life;
5. The most comprehensive free mobile application suite including Glide Write, Glide Presenter, Glide Publish, Glide Crunch (Spreadsheet), Photo Editor, Glide Email, Glide Share, Glide Chat and much more;
6. Free desktop and mobile social and business networking tools; and
7. 2 GBs of free online storage.
The Glide Business Model
1. $5.00 a month or $49.95 a year gives you an additional 10GBs of storage for a total of 12GBs of storage
2. You can also purchase photo prints as well as music and videos (coming soon) through Glide Shops
3. No invasive advertising
Press Contact: Marcus Farny 212-675-6664 ext. 105 media@transmx.com
TransMedia http://www.transmediacorp.com/ Glide OS http://www.glideos.com/ Glide Mobile http://www.glidemobile.com/
Source: TransMedia
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