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The Mobility Project & Everyone.net Introduce MobilityEmail.net Service to Protect Email Users on Shared Computers From Identity Theft
Portable solution secures email use on shared computers at the library, college, a friend or relative's house, hotel, or cyber café
 
SAN JOSE, California—May 31, 2006—The Mobility Project, a Free Software development community, has teamed with Everyone.net (www.everyone.net), a leading provider of private-label email services for businesses, individuals and service providers, to provide a complete solution for email users who are concerned about identity theft and privacy when using a shared computer. MobilityEmail.net combines hardened email software from The Mobility Project with reliable email service from Everyone.net that can be carried on portable USB memory sticks, or even an iPod.

MobilityEmail.net users simply connect their USB memory stick to most any Windows-based PC, and open the secure, self-contained Mobility Email program to send and receive messages. Email data is managed securely on the USB memory stick. No personal data is left behind once users remove the USB memory stick, unlike using an email program or web browser that resides on the shared computer, which leaves behind personal profiles and temporary files even after logging out.

Key Features

• Use email securely on a shared computer.
• Carry email safely on an inexpensive, portable USB memory stick.
• All email data is self-contained on the USB memory stick. Nothing is left behind on the shared computer.
• Account login is protected from being intercepted by spyware, or keystroke loggers often found on public computers, which target web-based email passwords.
• Industry standard message encryption (OpenPGP and S/MIME) is built-in to the Mobility Email program for advanced users.
• The MobilityEmail.net service keeps a synchronized backup of email and folders. Simply install the Mobility Email program onto a new USB memory stick if the old one is lost.
• MobilityEmail.net accounts are protected against spam and viruses.

"A Pew Internet and American Life Project survey found that nearly a quarter of U.S. Internet users go online at libraries, schools, and friends' houses," said Brian Nakamoto, Senior Product Manager at Everyone.net. "MobilityEmail.net makes it easy for people to manage their email—securely—when they use a shared computer."

"MobilityEmail.net helps protect users when they check their email," said Shane Coughlan, Mobility Project Team Leader. "Identity thieves use public computers to collect email passwords because it's a means to gain access to more sensitive accounts. Mobility Email communicates securely with the MobilityEmail.net service so there’s no password to capture, and it’s completely self-contained on the USB memory stick carried with you."

Pricing & Availability

The MobilityEmail.net service is $24.95 a year for one email account, which includes the Mobility Email program. Sign up for a 14-day free trial of MobilityEmail.net at http://www.mobilityemail.net.

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To celebrate the launch of MobilityEmail.net, Everyone.net will send a USB memory stick to the first 50 paid users in the U.S.

About The Mobility Project
The Mobility Project is about making innovative communication solutions for real people. It does this through Free (as in 'freedom') Software, and in partnership with individuals and companies around the world. The Mobility Project is sponsored and hosted by Opendawn.com, a communications consultancy based in the European Union. For more information visit http://mobility.opendawn.com/.

About Everyone.net
Based in San Jose, California, Everyone.net (www.everyone.net) offers highly reliable, secure, hosted email solutions for businesses, service providers, and individuals. The company's mission is to provide the advantages of carrier-class email without the expense or complexity, thus enabling customers to focus on what they do best. The company's fully customizable email solutions are built on a highly scalable infrastructure, and include advanced services such as IMAP and push email as well as anti-spam and virus protection. Having provisioned over 30 million mailboxes for over 300,000 domains, Everyone.net has been reliably delivering email solutions around the world since 1998.

Everyone.net is a registered trademark of Everyone.net, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.