Sending e-mail without PC

By Our Corporate Reporter

CHENNAI, JULY 25. iNabling Technologies, a Bangalore based firm, has come out with a revolutionary device `iStation' which enables one to send and receive text-based e-mails without a personal computer. The product was first introduced by the company in Karnataka last month.

Launching this product here today, Mr. John Aravamuthan, chief executive of the company, said the device, with an embedded modem and 256 KB memory, could be plugged into a standard telephone jack and store up to 250 e-mail addresses. It could be shared by up to five people with individual personal e-mail IDs.

Similar in looks to a laptop, with a full-function keyboard, the device was simple, inexpensive and low on communication costs, Mr. Aravamuthan said. The company has already established servers in Bangalore, Mangalore and Dharwad to make the services available throughout Karnataka. With the setting up of a server in Chennai, the services were now available to the people of Chennai also, he said.

The company has been funded by the Indian venture firms Infinity Ventures and ICICI ventures. Mr. B. V. Jagadeesh, chairman of the company, is a co-founder of Exodus Communications, a U.S. based firm which handles over 50 per cent of the internet traffic in the world.

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