BlackBerry customers can now utilize Hostopia's wholesale managed email
service
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL, March 6 /CNW/ - Hostopia.com, Inc. (TSX: H), today announced that its Hostopia email service now offers integrated support for BlackBerry(R) Internet Service from Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM). Hostopia's wholesale, managed email platform provides email services to leading global service providers of telecommunications and Internet services, who, in turn, offer email services to millions of businesses and consumers worldwide.
The Hostopia email service now allows BlackBerry(R) smartphone users to automatically receive messages from their Hostopia email account. To instantly configure and connect with their Hostopia email account users can simply enter their email credentials into their BlackBerry smartphone.
Hostopia's Chief Marketing Officer, Paul D. Engels, comments, "This new relationship with RIM will allow us to offer the benefits of the BlackBerry Internet Service push email architecture to broadband service providers. This will enable their end users to instantly activate high-performance, mobile email simply by entering their personal email credentials into their BlackBerry smartphone. BlackBerry Internet Service is a natural complement to Hostopia's email platform, which now includes webmail and SyncSuite, our mobile data synchronization clients, for the BlackBerry platform, Outlook and others. The Hostopia client lets email users wirelessly update contact and other personal data between their desktop PC and a BlackBerry smartphone."
Over two million email users on Hostopia's system will be able to utilize BlackBerry Internet Service. Hostopia will market the service on a wholesale basis, selling to telecommunications companies, cable providers and other broadband ISPs who require email for their end-user customers. Customers who also take advantage of Hostopia's SyncSuite applications can wirelessly synchronize their calendars, contacts and task information so that changes made on a BlackBerry smartphone can be automatically synchronized, over-the-air with Outlook and Webmail.
"Whether for business or personal use, wireless email is a powerful service that offers customers a multitude of benefits, including enhanced communications, productivity and flexibility," said Mark Guibert, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion. "We are pleased to be working with Hostopia to enrich the email experience for our mutual customers."
About Hostopia
Hostopia is a leading provider of web services that enable small- and medium-sized businesses to establish and maintain an Internet presence. The company's customers are communication services providers, including telecommunication carriers, cable companies, Internet service providers, domain registrars, and web hosting service providers. Hostopia's customers purchase their web services on a wholesale basis and resell these services under their own brands to small- and medium-sized businesses. The company provides customers with the technology, infrastructure, and support services to enable them to offer web services, while saving them research & development, as well as the capital and operating costs, typically associated with the design, development, and delivery of web services. For more information, visit www.hostopia.com.
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