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Want to get personalized, hand-addressed letters from Santa Claus?

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901am.comClick2Mail, an affiliate partner of the U.S. Postal Service today announced the launch of a Web-based Christmas project, A Letter From Santa, which allows anyone to have a personalized letter from Santa Claus sent to a child and simultaneously support one of the nation’s premiere holiday charities, Toys for Tots.

Letters are printed on limited edition stationery, signed by Santa himself, hand-addressed and postmarked from the North Pole Post Office in Alaska.

If you want to make Santa a little more real and more magical, simply go to RemindSanta.com to help Santa “compose” the letter and Click2Mail does the rest. The complete, delivered cost is $5.99 per US-addressed letter.

For each letter ordered by December 24th, one dollar will be donated to the Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots program-the charity that collects and distributes toys as Christmas gifts to needy children.

Originally posted on October 26, 2007 @ 5:04 am

Verisign Mobile Banking Solution to include 2-way customer interaction platform from ClairMail

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verisign.jpgVeriSign, Inc. and ClairMail, Inc. announced that VeriSign will integrate ClairMail’s secure 2-way mobile customer interaction platform and applications with the VeriSign Mobile Banking Solution.

The agreement reflects VeriSign’s strategy to meet the changing needs of financial institutions by leveraging its global infrastructure for mobile messaging and content delivery. ClairMail’s scalable platform and breakthrough technology combined with VeriSign’s messaging and operations infrastructure will facilitate bringing this revolutionary solution to market rapidly, benefiting financial institutions of all sizes.

Incorporating ClairMail’s platform and applications enables the VeriSign Mobile Banking Solution to support the “triple play” of mobile interface types: messaging (SMS and email), mobile web and native client applications. Support of these interface types enables financial institutions to offer reliable, secure and easy-to-use mobile services to their customers on a wide range of handsets. The joint solution securely and cost-effectively integrates with a financial institution’s systems of record and enables a broad set of 2-way services on one platform with a single implementation, including account management, fraud mitigation, actionable alerts, mobile payments, marketing campaigns and no-hold customer service.

Originally posted on September 26, 2007 @ 7:50 am

BigString and podcastGO form email and video alliance

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bigstring.jpgBigString Corporation, which offers a free email service that allows senders to recall, destroy or change emails after they have been sent, announced today that it will be the back-end provider for the new email offering by podcastGO to its users.

Beginning September 3rd, podcastGO’s 2.4 million users will be able to sign-up for a free, podcastgo.com email account, offering all the functionalities that have made BigString a leader in the burgeoning video, recallable, erasable and self-destructing email industry. Conversely, BigString users will be able to gain access and view the hottest podcasts from podcastGO, at BigString.com’s BigFun section.

Users of the new podcastGO private label email will be able to send an embedded video email (up to 10 minutes in length) without the need for the recipient to click on the a link or download the video. Providing another way for the users to interact with each other and share their video podcasts. Another unique email features allow users to remotely erase or modify emails sent to any recipient, designate their emails to be non-forwardable, non-printable and/or non-savable, or opt to have their emails self-destruct after a set amount of time or views. In addition, users will also have the added security to send secure emails via an encrypted, password-protected email system that can only be open via a Secure Socket Layer (SSL).

Originally posted on August 24, 2007 @ 9:48 am

Yoomba reaches milestone with 50,000 members in less than a month

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yoomba.jpgYoomba Ltd. announced that its new open communications experience has reached the landmark user base of 500,000 people since the official launch of Yoomba less than one month ago.

“We are very pleased with such rapid growth, accompanied by such positive user feedback. There is nothing else out there like Yoomba, and more and more people are discovering us every day,” said Elad Hemar, Co-founder and CEO of Yoomba. “Yoomba’s email calling and email chat features are now being used to reach half a million users all over the world. We haven’t seen a communications network grow this quickly since Skype.”

Yoomba’s open peer-to-peer application sits on top of every email network and turns any email address into a phone or instant messenger at the touch of a button. Once Yoomba is activated, buttons appear inside a user’s chosen email application, providing one-click access to talk to friends, family or colleagues around the world and on any network for free.

Originally posted on August 14, 2007 @ 11:22 am

Quickeo out to change the way companies use email

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quickeo.jpg Say goodbye to emails composed of simple text with attachments! Quickeo, a new file-sharing service company, hopes to change email usage by allowing users to send any kind of data (e.g. video, audio, PDF, Word or Excel documents, PowerPoint presentations, etc.) all in one message, without size limitations.

Senders simply download a small piece of software, and they can create and send what the company is calling “Quickeomails”

While most file-sharing services allow just one media type and require senders to post content to a public domain (e.g. YouTube, FlickR), Quickeo works with all media types and is for private viewing only. And it doesn’t require recipients to download software.

Originally posted on July 19, 2007 @ 10:00 pm