efax PR Tuesday April 6, 9:08 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
eFax.com Rolls Out New Version of HotSend Software
Internet's First Universal Email-Attachment Solution Is Now Available Online
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 1999--eFax.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:EFAX - news), the leading provider of free fax-to-email services, today released the latest version of HotSend(TM), another revolutionary, free Internet tool.
Located at: www.hotsend.com, HotSend provides free, downloadable software that lets users easily send or receive any email attachment. eFax.com launched its beta-version of HotSend in mid-December. Since then, the new consumer product has drawn over 15,000 beta users.
As the first Internet utility of its kind, HotSend promises to forever change the sending and receiving of email attachments. With push-button simplicity, HotSend enables any text file, graphic file, presentation, or Web page to be emailed from any application -- without having the recipient download or wrangle with any special viewer or software package.
When the document arrives via email as an attachment, the file looks and prints exactly like the original. Recipients don't need to own, buy, download, or install anything. With HotSend, there's no longer a need to fret over the minute, mechanical details associated with downloading and viewing email attachments. Designers, marketing professionals, home office workers, and other small businesses now have the ease, flexibility, and portability needed to share and transmit attachments on the fly.
''HotSend is a must-have tool in today's digitally-connected economy,'' said Rob Pollock, president and COO for eFax.com. ''HotSend provides a critical enabling technology for anyone conducting business over the Internet. As ecommerce continues to explode, the demand for rapid, easy, and secure access to email attachments will only proliferate. Email is already the most popular mode of business communication. In the United States alone, approximately 3.3 trillion email messages are sent annually; by 2000 that number will climb to more than 7 trillion, according to a recent report by the Electronic Mail and Messaging newsletter.''
HotSend can support any robust email attachment, including Power Point presentations; schematics; proposals; contracts; and full-color photos. HotSend easily maintains the crisp clarity of the original digital file. In addition, HotSend offers click and send simplicity, and ''free'' delivery to any of the 326 million mailboxes worldwide. What's more, HotSend offers the universal compatibility that Internet users need. Taken together, the result is straightforward multimedia mail that doesn't yet exist in any other form.
How HotSend Works
When HotSend is installed, it adds a new button to the menu bar of any software application. When users want to send documents, including Web pages, they simply click on the button that automatically converts the active document into a rich, full-color format optimized for email. HotSend then adds its free Microviewer(TM) to create a portable document that can be opened by anyone, launches the user's email software, and attaches the document to a new message that is ready to be addressed and sent. Once the email is received, recipients' just double click on the attachment, the free Viewer launches, and the document is displayed. It looks and prints like the original. HotSend is compatible with most popular email programs.
For more information, visit www.hotsend.com, www.efax.com, or call eFax.com at 1-877-EFAXCOM, 650/324-0600, or fax 650/326-6003.
About eFax.com
eFax.com, Inc. (NAsdaq:EFAX - news), is the leading provider of Internet document communication solutions. eFax.com has a range of products that allow users, regardless of technical expertise, to manage and distribute paper and digital documents easily. The company's flagship products are HotSend, free software to ease sending email attachments, and eFax.com, a free fax-to-email consumer service. The company also sells hardware products, and is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif. For more information, call 650/324-0600, fax 650/326-6003, or visit www.efax.com.
''Safe Harbor'' Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk an uncertainties. The Company wishes to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include the following: the uncertain performance, user adoption, and financial results from products integrating fax technology with the Internet; protection of the Company's intellectual property rights and risk of infringement claims against the Company's intellectual property; the size and timing of and fluctuations in end user demand for the Company's branded products and OEM products incorporating the Company's technology; the fact that the Company's markets are characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements, and the Company's ability to respond to such changes; difficulties which the Company may experience in completing the development of turnkey designs for OEM customers, its color technology or other products; the highly competitive nature of the markets for the Company's products; the phase-out or early termination of the Company's branded products or OEM products incorporating the Company's technology; the Company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the Company's reliance on third party suppliers for components used in the Company's products; the quarterly variability in the Company's bookings and design wins; and the Company's reliance on a relatively small number of OEM customers for a large percentage of its revenue. These and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Form 10-K, Form S-8, Form 10-Q, and Form S-1.
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Contact:
eFax.com
Janice V. Kapner, 650/688-6841
or
Neale-May & Partners
Jane D'Arcy, 650/328-5555 ext. 116
Amy Beth Arnold, 650/328-5555 ext. 113
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