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ZeroPC, 'Transferable, Lifetime Desktop In The Cloud,' Debuts Globally And At Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco

Interactive "Round-Table" Collaboration. Through ZeroPC's strategic partnership with Talkwheel.com, users can have real-time communications online as a group, plus share their documents, photos or social content while interacting together.

Universal Inbox & Messenger. Users can aggregate and manage all their personal and business email accounts and social networking messages in a single location. It is convenient to read and reply to Gmail, Yahoo or other IMAP accounts, plus Facebook and Twitter messages. Universal messenger enables users to automatically sign in to all their IM accounts with popular services from one place, see people online and chat with friends directly from a browser.

Pay Only for What You Use. Starting from only $1 per month, users have full access to all of ZeroPC's rich functions and applications, and up to 50GB of storage for their content. End-users are not required to pay any subscription fees, and simply "pay-as-they-go" for the amount of data transfer and storage needed. Typical usage may range from $2-3 per month, which is a significant savings compared to other subscription models. Customers who sign up now will receive $10 in welcome credits to try the ZeroPC service.

Bundled Productivity Suite in a Browser. ZeroPC provides applications to help users stay productive wherever they go. ZeroPC includes the ThinkFree Online Office Suite that looks, feels and delivers the performance of familiar Microsoft productivity tools. Consumers, schools and business users can create new word processing documents, spreadsheets and graphic presentations, or open, edit and share existing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents previously created on local computers. ZeroPC users do not need to pay any extra licensing fees for the robust capability of ThinkFree office productivity tools, and no additional software installations are required to instantly access, create and share documents and files anywhere.

Global Security. ZeroPC uses high-quality, redundant servers hosted by Amazon Web Services in multiple worldwide locations to store all user content and data. Utilizing Amazon's reliable infrastructure Web services platform in the cloud enables the ZeroPC service to be available to global consumers, schools and businesses.


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