ThinkFree Expands Office Productivity Offering with Mobile Strategy

“As businesses, and consumers, become more mobile – with the evolution of smaller devices, including Ultra Mobile Personal Computers (UMPCs) and next generation mobile internet devices, ThinkFree will be prepared.” said Su-jin Kim, CEO of ThinkFree. “ThinkFree Mobile is just one more way that we are making our online office productivity technology truly limitless, allowing users to edit and view documents anywhere, anytime, and on any device.”

ThinkFree Mobile adds another key component to the current ubiquitous documentations platform, allowing customers to synchronize files online and offline while on mobile devices. ThinkFree Mobile comes initially in three versions: lite editor, standard editor and viewer. While the mobile lite editor provides editing functions optimized for small screen size devices, the standard editor is the same as the full-featured ThinkFree Office. Furthermore, the mobile standard editor includes ThinkFree Manager which handles online and offline document synchronization. Viewer is a specialized for mobile devices allowing users to only view documents in Write, Calc, and Show. The viewer is ideal for reading documents that are created by the Microsoft office suite. The mobile viewer includes a simplified user interface that is designed especially for comfortable viewing on portable devices. Functions such as zoom, pan and full screen navigation are seamlessly integrated into ThinkFree Mobile Viewer.

ThinkFree Mobile is optimized for small screens, providing a controllable and manageable user interface allowing mobile devices to be truly effective editing tools. Also, finger touch technology provides optimized control for seeing documents via a finger touch-driven user interface on any mobile device. ThinkFree Mobile will be compatible with Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007.

Currently, the mobile suite is available only to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs), telecommunication companies, telecommunication operators and Independent Software Vendor (ISVs).

For more information on ThinkFree, visit www.thinkfree.com and http://blog.thinkfree.com/.

About ThinkFree

ThinkFree, Inc. based in San Jose, is a leading developer of platform independent office productivity solutions. ThinkFree built its award winning office suite in a flexible architecture for deployment either hosted on a local server or company intranet, available over the Internet, or installed on a desktop or portable device. Majority owned by Haansoft Inc., a publicly held company on the Korean KOSDAQ stock market, ThinkFree's mission is to offer market leading software solutions that leverage the power of the Internet and provide users with a consistent, unified and productive experience regardless of computing platform.

ThinkFree and ThinkFree Online are registered trademarks of ThinkFree, corp. All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Enables a boundless office environment through leveraging online and offline

San Jose, CA (February, 2006) ThinkFree, Inc., the leading provider of web-based office productivity software, announces the release of iCdocs, a new free Internet Communication tool for Office Documents. This new Web 2.0 service allows bloggers and web creators to publish word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation documents for people to view exactly as they were originally designed. iCdocs removes the need for converting files into alternate formats that often change the look and layout of the document. Users are also freed from downloading or purchasing any additional software, eliminating extra expenditures. Website creators need only embed a bit of HTML code that invokes the iCdocs API (Application Programming Interface) to display Microsoft Office compatible documents. Developers can also embed the iCdocs API into their internet applications.

"We want to allow everyone to share their ideas, plans, and dreams without limitations," says TJ Kang, founder and CEO of ThinkFree Inc. He adds, "People shouldn't be restricted by what software they need to buy, or having to convert a document into some other format that strays away from their original design. iCdocs will continue to evolve, offering more features and finer controls giving developers greater power and freedom to focus on their concepts, instead of technology." This new service is at the vanguard of Web 2.0 technology, along with Google, Yahoo, and Flickr opening their APIs, transitioning Websites from islands of isolated data to connected, dynamic, interactive communities. In the spirit of Web 2.0, ThinkFree also plans to open up more APIs providing a more powerful method for distributing applications and content for everyone.

Office documents can be created using ThinkFree Office, Microsoft Office, or other office productivity software that saves to Microsoft file formats, and then published by an easy 3 step process using iCdocs. ThinkFree provides the tools to generate the HTML code, making iCdocs easy to use. Simply go to www.thinkfree.com/icdocs/code, point to the location of your document, choose your preferences, and the code is automatically generated for you to copy and paste into your web page or blog. Document creators have the option of either embedding the file into a web page or blog, or adding a link for viewing and saving. Website application developers can find all the information necessary to embed the iCdocs API into their internet applications at www.thinkfree.com/icdocs/documentation. iCdocs is intended for non-commercial use only. For more information see www.thinkfree.com/icdocs.

 
SAN JOSE, Calif. and MELBOURNE, Australia (November 6, 2007) - ThinkFree, a leading provider of Internet-enabled productivity software, has announced that it is working with BigPond, Australia's largest Internet service provider, to power a set of Web-based productivity tools. The tools will be offered to the public as BigPond Office, now available at www.bigpondoffice.com.au.

BigPond Office allows users to create, edit, collaborate on, store, publish and share word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents. It is compatible with document formats used by popular productivity suites such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat. It will be available for use wherever BigPond access customers have Internet access worldwide, and it is offered free of charge to BigPond Broadband Members.
 
BigPond has exclusive rights to ThinkFree's office productivity suite in Australia and New Zealand as part of a multi-year technology licensing agreement.

"ThinkFree is proud to be supplying technology to BigPond," said TJ Kang, founder and CEO of ThinkFree. "While other telecommunications companies are struggling to overcome the increasingly commoditized world of data access and data storage, Telstra (BigPond's parent company) is building new revenue streams while providing users with the services they need."

RAMALLAH , Palestine , JERUSALEM , Israel and SAN JOSE , Calif. (September 4 , 2007 ) – G.ho.st ™ (the Global Hosted Operating SysTem) , a leading Web operating system, and ThinkFree ™ , a leading provider of o n-premise and on-demand office applications , today announced the live integration of their services, providing free office suite viewing functionality for users of the G.ho.st Virtual Computer (VC).

“ We ’ re seeing a major market trend toward allowing people to work within the same user interface to view documents, XML syndication (e.g., Ato m and RSS) feeds, and favorite W eb sites from any remote computer, ” commented Peter O ’ Kelly, r esearch d irector for Burton Group ’ s Collaboration and Content Strategies service. “ Having the applications and files you need accessible from any location means never again, for example, facing the prospect of forgetting to download the latest version of the sales presentation you need to deliver to a client that day. G.ho.st and ThinkFree are working together to exploit this trend, and to take the Software-as-a-Service model to the next level: eliminating the need for pre-installed software on your desktop. ”  

G.ho.st users can view M icrosoft Office-compatib le files (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint format files) directly from the ir free 3 GB of G.ho.st s torage. Integrating ThinkFree ’ s document viewers allows users to simply right-click the documents on the G.ho.st desktop and select “ View .” Using online services eliminates the need to install expensive software. In a future release, the companies plan to implement forthcoming APIs from ThinkFree that will allow full authoring and editing of office documents using ThinkFree applications within the G.ho.st environment.

“ G.ho.st and ThinkFree share the vision of taking the entire computing environment online. We are delighted to elevate the G.ho.st Virtual Computer to the next level with seamless online viewing of office documents using ThinkFree, ” said Dr. Zvi Schreiber, f ounder and CEO of G.ho.st.

“ Our objective in extending our services is to partner with the best and the brightest, ” stated ThinkFree founder and CEO TJ Kang. “ We want to focus on building the best online office suite out there. By partnering with G.ho.st , we can extend our functionality while concentrating on our core mission. ”

About G.ho.st

G.ho.st (the Global Hosted Operating SysTem, pronounced ghost ) provides a free and complete Virtual Computer (VC) service, including personal desktop, files and apps, available from any browser. G.ho.st is the world ’ s first and only true open Web Operating System (Web OS), working seamlessly with leading third-party Web applications. The G.ho.st VC delivers a mature computing environment to every person, which is free of charge, available everywhere and admin-free. The G.ho.st VC service is available at http://g.ho.st/ and G.ho.st ’ s home page is at http://g.ho.st/home .

SAN JOSE, Calif. (September 18, 2007) – ThinkFree, a leading provider of platform-independent office productivity software, today announced that it is optimizing its productivity software for Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs).

ThinkFree offers award-winning productivity software – word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs, along with collaboration tools, mashups and group capabilities – that run on multiple platforms, whether online or offline.  

ThinkFree’s software offering consists of:

• ThinkFree Doc Reader:  Users can read any e-mail attachment, whether online or offline, by double-clicking on the attachment.

• ThinkFree Premium: Subscribers of ThinkFree Online will be able to read, edit and sync any document, whether online or offline, from any device, including an MID, laptop or desktop, to maintain the latest copy of a document wherever they go.

“We welcome the chance to work with Intel and look forward to helping our customers bring the personal Internet experience to users who want their documents and applications available both online and offline, on their PCs and on any mobile device, from any location,” said TJ Kang, founder and CEO of ThinkFree.

“The emerging category of Mobile Internet Devices will make it easier for mobile users to communicate, entertain, access information, and be productive on the go,” said Pankaj Kedia, director of global ecosystem programs in the Ultra Mobility Group at Intel Corporation. “Intel’s low-power technologies, combined with ThinkFree’s productivity software, enable our customers to deliver capabilities that meet end users’ needs to be productive anytime, anyplace.”

 

SAN JOSE, Calif., August 2, 2007 -- Starting today, Facebook users will be able to publish, upload and share documents with their Facebook friends -- right from Facebook -- with ThinkFree Docs, an application created by ThinkFree, developer of the first online office productivity suite.

ThinkFree Docs on Facebook is the first service that provides an easy way to view office documents in your Facebook network with true Microsoft Office compatibility.

"We looked at what was out there and decided we could make it easier and more intuitive," said TJ Kang, CEO of ThinkFree. "With ThinkFree Docs, we have integrated user-generated document publishing and sharing with the social networking capabilities of Facebook. There's no need to go to a separate site, and you can easily share your documents with your friends -- without losing the formatting you painstakingly put in."

Imagine being on Facebook and collaborating on your class project without ever leaving the site. Or sharing a recipe or a script for one of your groups -- without ever leaving the site. That is what ThinkFree Docs makes possible -- all without losing formatting.

Users already share original documents on ThinkFree Docs. Professors post homework, and students post collaborative assignments and papers. Cooks post recipes, and gardeners share planting schedules. Authors post stories and poems, while lawyers and others post prototypical documents like wills. Business and marketing people share presentations -- all in the free, ThinkFree Online format, which provides the best roundtrip compatibility to Office documents anywhere.

That is what ThinkFree can bring to Facebook's 30 million registered users. For more information and to add the application to your Facebook profile, see the ThinkFree company blog at http://blog.thinkfree.com.

"ThinkFree Docs is already becoming a mini-universe of interesting content for its users," said ZDNet Blogger and ThinkFree advisor Marc Orchant. "It makes perfect sense to harness that for Facebook users, who can share with as many or as few friends as they like -- without ever leaving the Facebook site."

With ThinkFree Docs on Facebook, you can:

• Search for friends' Docs
• Upload original Docs from your computer to 'My Docs', or create your own Docs in ThinkFree Docs
• Publish your own Doc right from Facebook
• Share your Docs with your friends
• Link directly from Facebook to the larger sharing capabilities of ThinkFree Docs

ThinkFree is already offering to its users ThinkFree Online, a free service where users can edit their presentations, spreadsheets and word processing documents -- which can make life even easier for Facebook users.

"This generation is one of the first to ‘cut the cord' and not use a landline telephone," noted Kang. "We hope to make it easy for them to not need a conventional desktop office productivity suite, either. We want ThinkFree to be where people need it to be."

Microsoft compatible suite unplugs users from the Internet, delivers feature set to support anywhere, anytime access to documents      

Boston, MA - Enterprise 2.0 Conference (June 19, 2007) – ThinkFree, Inc., developer of the first online office productivity suite, today announced ThinkFree Premium: Beta Edition – the most Microsoft compatible online/offline hybrid office suite.

Combining the convenience of server-based computing with the power, the portability of Web applications, and performance of desktop-based applications, ThinkFree Premium gives users access to edit Microsoft Office files, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, online and offline.

ThinkFree welcomes users to apply to become Premium Beta testers at http://product.thinkfree.com/premium.  

Geared for corporate, education, home and small to medium business environments, ThinkFree Premium Edition uses Web 2.0 and Java technology to create a productivity solution the allows users to access their applications and documents on the desktop and also on the web. ThinkFree Premium delivers collaboration features that include:

• Invitations through email to collaborate and receive input;
• Revision control, roll-back, file locking and multiple levels of access control to ensure complete control over the final document;
• Ability to publish documents to the ThinkFree Docs community, a designated web page, blog or Internet application;
• Document tagging for better organizing, categorizing and searching;
• Documents converted to HTML for quick viewing within browser.

“People today live a mobile lifestyle, and the ability to access their favorite productivity tools from anywhere is key to being efficient and effective,” said TJ Kang, CEO of ThinkFree. “Mobility can mean traveling without your laptop and connecting to your files online. But, it also needs to include the ability to travel with your laptop to unconnected environments, such as when you're sitting on an airplane or in the waiting room of your child's orthodontist. Premium Edition offers the best of both worlds - the collaboration and anywhere access of the internet, with the speed, reliability, and security of a desktop application.”

ThinkFree Premium Edition provides offline access to authoring and editing tools, unlimited storage, file synchronization, smart save, archiving features and priority email support. Users no longer need to depend on an Internet connection to access their documents – they can work online or offline, anywhere, anytime. Support for all major Web browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari also gives users the choice of their preferred browser. Built in multi-lingual support includes US English, UK English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese and Turkish.

System Requirements for ThinkFree Premium include:

• Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
• Intel® Pentium compatible PC
• 256MB of RAM (512MB or higher recommended)
• 100MB of available hard disk space

Beginning in August the monthly subscription fee will be $7 per user and a 10% discount will be available for a yearly subscription, bringing the total down to $75 per user, per year.

ThinkFree and EditGrid Deliver "Quick Edit" Capabilities

For Spreadsheet Documents 

San Jose, Calif. (June 5, 2007) - ThinkFree, Inc., developer of the first online office productivity suite, and Team and Concepts Limited (TnC), a recognized leader in spreadsheet development for collaboration and data integration, today announced a partnership that integrates the popular EditGrid spreadsheet application with the growing capabilities of the free full-featured Internet office suite ThinkFree Online. The agreement with Hong Kong-based TnC allows ThinkFree to replace its current Quick Edit Calc with the more advanced EditGrid. The deal includes a revenue-sharing agreement between the two companies.

In replacing Quick Edit Calc with EditGrid, ThinkFree is able to provide the most advanced real-time collaboration spreadsheet on the market.  

With the integrated solution, ThinkFree users will be able to collaborate on spreadsheets simultaneously and see changes happen in real-time. The Remote Data feature provides access within the spreadsheet to external data - If users need instant updates on stock prices within a stock portfolio worksheet for example,
that data can be updated continuously, and any charts or graphs reflect those changes.

Power Edit Calc - used for more complex functions and offering the highest level of compatibility with the look and feature set of Microsoft Excel - will continue to be developed by ThinkFree.

" We feel that by combining ThinkFree 's understanding of Microsoft Office compatibility with our knowledge of collaboration and integrating outside data sources or Web services, we will create a real force in the online productivity market, " commented David Lee, chairman and co-founder of TnC. " Embedding our application into the office suite gives us access to the 300,000 plus users who currently use ThinkFree Online, and gives us an excellent partner for expansion into other markets and opportunities. "

ThinkFree Online is the only complete Internet-based office productivity suite to blend the best of the Internet's collaboration features with comprehensive Microsoft Office compatibility. The online office suite includes three applications - ThinkFree Write for word processing, ThinkFree Calc for spreadsheet management and ThinkFree Show for creating presentations - all extremely intuitive to use.

"EditGrid is a hot product. We feel fortunate to have started this relationship at the beginning of what will be a tremendous growth period for TnC," said ThinkFree Founder and CEO TJ Kang. "It would have taken us longer to develop the capabilities they currently have, so we decided to create a mutually beneficial partnership that will deliver better productivity tools for all of our users. We also envision that the relationships TnC has developed in China will aid our expansion into that market."

Combining the success and brand recognition of each, the two companies expect this partnership to be the first step in a long process of bringing continuous productivity improvements to ThinkFree Online members around the world.

About Team and Concepts and EditGrid

Team and Concepts (TnC) is a Hong Kong-based company and creator of EditGrid online spreadsheets. Founded in 2003 by David K. F. Lee and partners, TnC began as a software service provider for event organizers. Accumulated experience in serving intensive spreadsheet users, TnC later launched EditGrid in April 2006. It soon evolved into the leading online spreadsheet service. David K. F. Lee was nominated by BusinessWeek magazine as one of Asia ' s Best Entrepreneurs under 25 in August 2006. For more information, visit http://www.editgrid.com and http://www.tnc.hk .

 

Japan’s top PC software provider advances ThinkFree's entry into top Asian market, helping to localize, operate, and market ThinkFree products and services

San Jose, CA (May 14, 2007) – ThinkFree, Inc., developer of the first online office productivity suite, and Sourcenext Corporation, the No. 1 provider of PC software in Japan, today announced a license agreement to localize, market, and operate a localized Japanese releases of ThinkFree Online (http://www.thinkfree.com), the free online office productivity suite, as well as ThinkFree Desktop, the offline version of the suite, and ThinkFree Premium, a subscription hybrid service with offline/online capabilities due out in the third quarter of 2007. The deal provides a revenue sharing agreement between the two companies with Sourcenext paying a baseline licensing fee.

ThinkFree Online, which will be called “ThinkFree Tegaru Office,” in Japan, is available in a public beta offering at http://www.thinkfree.co.jp. The official service including ThinkFree Premium, a subscription based service, will be released in September 2007.ThinkFree is the only complete Internet-based office productivity suite to blend the best of the Internet’s collaboration features with comprehensive Microsoft Office compatibility. The online office suite includes three applications – ThinkFree Write for word processing, ThinkFree Calc for spreadsheet management and ThinkFree Show for creating presentations – all extremely intuitive to use.

Sourcenext brings the experience of building an empire whose profit has grown more than 50% over the last two years. And they have been the number 1 sales share holder in Japan for the past 4 years, with a user base of 3.6 million.

“Sourcenext has a great reputation with its customers, and we welcome the opportunity to tap into the enthusiasm of the millions of users who count on Sourcenext for everything from personal productivity software, to security, to the latest in PC entertainment,” said ThinkFree Founder and CEO, TJ Kang. “ThinkFree can continue to expand the benefits of our software suite in markets looking for high-quality alternatives to more expensive desktop solutions. The level of energy and excitement Sourcenext brings to this relationship will make this launch in Japan and the continued improvement of the product extremely dynamic.”

Combining the success and brand recognition of each, the two companies expect this partnership to be the the first step in a long process of bringing continuous productivity improvements to the Japanese public. The next release is scheduled for June when ThinkFree Docs (http://www.thinkfreedocs.com), the social networking site which many have described as the YouTube for office documents, will be localized for the Japanese market.

“Sourcenext has a proud legacy of breaking down the barrier of cost to bring the highest quality software to its users. This partnership with ThinkFree will let us continue that legacy and embrace exciting new technologies, all maintaining the quality and speed that Sourcenext is known for” said Noriyuki Matsuda, Founder and CEO of Sourcenext.

About Sourcenext

Sourcenext (Listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers. Stock code: 4344), the No.1 PC Software unit sales share holder in Japan for the last 4 years, has a proud history of producing a variety of successful software products since its foundation in 1996. It provides over 460 PC software titles from anti-virus, system utilities, document management to edutainment and games. Sourcenext has expanded the number of distribution channels to over 25,000 stores through bookstores, convenience stores, supermarkets, and so on. As a software republisher, it has made many successful alliances with foreign partners including IBM and Disney Interactive Studios. For more information, please contact at  or visit http://www.sourcenext.com/en.pr@sourcenext.com This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

ThinkFree Docs Allows Users to Search, Share, Tag and Publish Documents Online

San Jose, Calif. -- May 8 , 2007 -- ThinkFree, Inc., developer of the first online office productivity suite, has launched its newest online community for sharing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, ThinkFree Docs. ThinkFree Docs allows users to search, share, tag and publish Microsoft Office and ThinkFree documents in an online social community, much in the same way that Flickr™ allows photographers to publish and share photos.

Thinkfree Docs extends the existing ThinkFree Online community, a free web service for creating and editing office documents. ThinkFree is the world's most compatible alternative to Microsoft Office, runs on all major browser on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh systems and operates natively in Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .xls, and .ppt).

ThinkFree Docs now adds a social network around producers and their content. It is the newest way for people to come together to help each other meet, create, share and find what they need – from a template for a soccer schedule, marketing slide shows, and business plans, to a tuna casserole recipe, living wills, or screen plays hoping for discovery by an agent.

While other sites are just now launching to build communities around content, ThinkFree online users have been creating documents for over two years; building a community around them was a natural and important extension to the platform. ThinkFree Docs launches with users, content, and an existing community of 275,000 ThinkFree users . ThinkFree Docs brings an enhanced solution as compared to previous offerings, including: a stronger community focus, rich personal profiles, quality content, additional search and filtering capabilities. ThinkFree Docs runs on Amazon Webs Services, EC2 and S3, so users can always access the documents they need.

“Our users are helping us shape the future of content collaboration, networking and sharing simply through the conversations we engage with them,” said Jonathan Crow, Director of Marketing for ThinkFree. “This feedback has driven the development of the ThinkFree Docs community, which is a powerful tool for connecting, publishing, and finding the exact information your peers need - when they need it.”

TJ Kang, CEO and Founder of ThinkFree, is already looking to the future, “As cool as this community is now, it’s only going to get better in the months ahead as we add new features and users add new content. ThinkFree Docs is already empowering our users and will will continue to enhance the features, networking, ability for them to build alliances and friendships - building a global community around content creation and sharing.”

ThinkFree’s global community for content creators allows users to:

• Immediately share business presentations, design templates, legal agreements, creative work, educational materials and ideas.
• Create profiles to increase their presence and expertise on any subject – they are given the option of promoting their work as well as positioning it to explain its value.
• Decide whether to share a document – contributing to more available content and templates – or review other peoples work and contribute to the conversation.

Also, content creators have full control over their work -- how it’s shared or credited for example -- and they can also tag files for quick identification and search optimization.

”We’re pleased to provide ThinkFree with infrastructure technology solutions that help them offer a better product,” said Steve Rabuchin, Director of Developer Relations, Amazon Web Services. “ThinkFree can focus on building highly differentiated productivity solutions while we focus on the undifferentiating heavy lifting of making sure those solutions scale affordably for ThinkFree.”

ThinkFree Online is the only complete Internet-based office productivity suite to blend the best of the Internet’s collaboration features with the most comprehensive Microsoft Office compatibility available. ThinkFree continues to lead the evolution of Web 2.0 online suite development by providing easy integration of ThinkFree’s market-leading tools for online creation, collaboration and editing of Microsoft Office-format documents.

ThinkFree APIs allow partners like Jive Software to integrate editing
of office documents into their document management platforms

Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco (April 17, 2007) - ThinkFree, Inc., developer of the first online office productivity suite, today announced the launch of ThinkFree APIs (open-Application Programming Interface), a free tool that allows Web services, Web sites and blogs to post or host office documents on their servers, where their end users can launch the file and make changes from any browser. Users have come to expect that their files and applications are available anytime, anywhere. With the launch of these new APIs, ThinkFree is extending this always-available office functionality to other service providers.

TJ Kang, CEO of ThinkFree, will be highlighting the Editor API at the Web 2.0 Expo on Tuesday, April 17, in room 2016 at 2:40 p.m.

Service providers and users no longer need Microsoft Office to edit and save office documents. The APIs access the core applications available in ThinkFree Online (www.thinkfree.com) - ThinkFree Write for word processing, ThinkFree Calc for editing spreadsheets and ThinkFree Show for creating presentations - at no cost.

ThinkFree also announced partnerships with NHN's NAVER portal, Sparc and Livestart. It also said that it is working with Jive Software and Amazon Web Services to develop new workspace tools that leverage each company's strengths to provide reliable business collaboration solutions.

"Many forms of office work are moving to the Web where information workers can more easily access documents and data, collaborate, and create new information," commented Amy Wohl, editor of Amy Wohl's Opinions and president of Wohl Associates. "To accelerate and facilitate this process, we need products like ThinkFree which allow other Web services which present or manage text content to easily integrate existing office files and Web-based office documents. We are already moving to exploit the Internet with Office 2.0 applications; the next step is knitting them together - with other Web-based applications, via APIs and open standards - into on-demand Web services."

Jive Software (www.jivesoftware.com) has integrated the new APIs into Clearspace, the first enterprise-class application that combines the latest content creation tools (wikis, blogs, forums, collaborative documents and chats) with intelligence (tagging, workflow, user rewards, RSS). This means Clearspace users can now view, edit and save Microsoft Office files inside Clearspace without ever launching those applications from the desktop or having to download those files, saving valuable time and providing unlimited points of access.

ThinkFree office productivity solutions are also being integrated into Livestart, a business portal located in the Netherlands. Livestart guides talents in starting up a business, supporting them with online tools like an appointment calendar, CRM application, accounting, Web site generator, corporate blog, and most recently the ability to author and edit office documents.

ThinkFree APIs leverage the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) from Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com) to ensure high availability for users. Amazon EC2 is a Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Businesses like ThinkFree use a simple Web service interface to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It allows users to have complete control over their computing resources and lets them run on Amazon's proven computing environment.

ThinkFree APIs can be used in a variety of ways, including:

• Updating forms - Companies can post expense report spreadsheets that employees can fill out and save back to the company's server
• Assigning homework - Teachers can post homework assignments that students can fill out online and save to the teacher's folder on the school's server
• Team collaboration - Individuals can distribute documents or presentations to colleagues, receive instant feedback, and allow online editing and saving into a centralized location
• Extending a community or Web service - Anyone with a Web site or blog, and anyone who is developing a Web service, can extend the features available to their end users, allowing them to edit Microsoft Office-formatted documents

NHN, the largest Korean Internet portal, signed a $3.2 million contract with ThinkFree to integrate office applications into NHN's NAVER portal site in November 2006. NAVER has now integrated ThinkFree into its e-mail client so that its 20 million users can use ThinkFree to easily open office documents e-mailed as attachments. As a result, NAVER users can simply click and view online - no need to download any files or install expensive office software suites formerly needed to view these attachments.

Sparc (www.getsparc.com), a customizable Internet dashboard, has added ThinkFree to its long list of collaboration and productivity applications. With Voice over IP, instant messaging, time management tools, project management, social networking, and content creation and editing, the combination of ThinkFree and Sparc brings together all the tools needed for end-to-end office productivity.

"ThinkFree continues to actively develop tools for collaboration - or works with companies who have developed their own brilliant solutions - so that users around the globe can find new and powerful ways to use our suite in their daily lives," said TJ Kang, CEO and founder of ThinkFree.

ThinkFree Online is the only complete Internet-based office productivity suite to blend the best of the Internet's collaboration features with the most comprehensive Microsoft Office compatibility available. ThinkFree continues to lead the evolution of Web 2.0 online suite development by providing easy integration of ThinkFree's market-leading tools for online creation, collaboration and editing of Microsoft Office-format documents.

Additional resources:

Screenshots of ThinkFree APIs: http://tinyurl.com/3cf3kn
Viewer API demo: http://product.thinkfree.com/tfpress/demo.html
ThinkFree API presentation: http://blog.thinkfree.com/thinkfree-announces-new-apis

About Jive Software

Jive Software is an Inc. 500 company that develops award-winning collaboration software for improving business productivity through open collaboration among employees, partners and customers. Jive Software's products, which are open or developer-source, open-architecture and customizable for any business need, power both online real-time and team collaboration for more than 1,600 customers around the world. For more information, visit www.jivesoftware.com or its open-source community at www.igniterealtime.org.

About NHN

NHN Corporation is Korea's largest internet company operating search portal Naver http://www.naver.com/ and game portal Hangame http://www.hangame.com/. With the two business pillars of search and game services, NHN has rolled out a wide range of innovative and convenient online services. A number of surveys represent that the company is bound to become an undisputed leader in the online services industry in Asia and will enable people to enjoy digital life.

More Than 250,000 People

Now Use ThinkFree Online Service

Online office suite pioneer expands community collaboration
with upgrades to its Doc Exchange library

San Jose, Calif. (February 26, 2007) – ThinkFree, Inc., developer of the first online office productivity suite, today announced that it has surpassed 250,000 registered users within its ThinkFree Online community (www.thinkfree.com).

People who have selected ThinkFree as their favorite online office suite include small and medium business owners and their staffs, university professors, teachers, entrepreneurs, parents, bloggers and students. On any given month, this community:

• Accounts for 228,000 unique page views
• Stores over 654,000 files totaling 189 GB of data
• Accounts for just under 100,000 unique visitors, of which over half stay longer than 10 minutes and roughly one quarter return day after day
• Shares 2,000 documents
• Uploads or creates 60,000-80,000 new files

The ThinkFree community is globally diverse, with users from more than 200 countries, including Mauritania, Anguilla, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. The greatest number of users come from five regions: the United States, South Korea, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Canada.

ThinkFree has plans to upgrade its Doc Exchange, a library of files published by ThinkFree Online members. Many of these improvements were developed in response to feedback received from ThinkFree users.

“The feedback from our online community has been key to making the collaborative benefits of ThinkFree Online easier to use and more accessible for experienced and new users,” said TJ Kang, CEO and founder of ThinkFree. “The growth of our online community further validates the appeal of Web-based productivity applications as an alternative to traditional desktop solutions.”

As a result of its commitment to constantly improve its service based on user feedback, ThinkFree will be making upgrades to Doc Exchange, which hosts over 13,900 documents – Everything from business plans to recipes and soccer league schedules. Specifically, the new Doc Exchange will be geared to making the public library more user-friendly, faster and easier for users to find the exact information they need. In addition, ThinkFree will be adding tools to foster interaction between users and to help them find interesting new documents.

ThinkFree Online is the only complete Internet-based office productivity suite to blend the best of the Internet’s collaboration features with comprehensive Microsoft Office compatibility. ThinkFree Online includes three applications – ThinkFree Write for word processing, ThinkFree Calc for spreadsheet management and ThinkFree Show for creating presentations – that are intuitive to learn and use. ThinkFree continues to lead the evolution of Web 2.0 online suite development by providing easy integration of ThinkFree’s market-leading tools for online creation, collaboration and editing of Microsoft Office-format documents.

"ThinkFree provided a cost-effective office solution that relieved the IT staff and Ryder's technical resources from burdensome installation, deployment, update and management issues," said Henry Wengier, director of technical services for Ryder. "The technology addressed our needs and created a more productive work environment."

ThinkFree Server Edition consists of ThinkFree Write (word processing), ThinkFree Calc (spreadsheet) and ThinkFree Show (presentation). These applications run within a Web browser on the desktop computer connected to the server via a LAN or Internet connection. This solution combines the efficiency and anytime, anywhere access of server-based computing with the power and responsiveness of desktop-based applications, therefore creating the perfect solution for users needing a full-powered office suite without the high cost. ThinkFree also provides the best document compatibility with Microsoft Office and multi-platform support, even in a mixed environment with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

ThinkFree developed the first and only server-hosted office suite that allows users to edit Microsoft Office files and create seamlessly compatible documents from any connected computer, without ever having to buy Microsoft software. This solution addresses the particular needs of enterprises looking for TCO (total cost of ownership) savings. It also helps eliminate costs associated with the installation, update and management of software on individual desktops.

"Ryder gave us an opportunity to prove how hosted solutions such as ThinkFree Server Edition can provide Fortune 500 and small- to medium-sized businesses alike with significant value," stated ThinkFree CEO and founder TJ Kang. "Furthermore, working with a forward-thinking company like Ryder that seeks innovative and advanced technology solutions allows us to improve our planning and strategy efforts for future ThinkFree Server enhancements."

Pricing and Availability
ThinkFree Server Edition is available now for the cost of $30 per user per year. Educational, non-profit and volume pricing discounts are available. For more information, please contact

sales@thinkfree.com

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About Ryder
Ryder is a Fortune 500 company providing leading-edge transportation, logistics and supply chain management solutions worldwide. Ryder's stock (NYSE:R) is a component of the Dow Jones Transportation Average and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. For more information about Ryder System, Inc., visit www.ryder.com.

Online office suite pioneer provides tools to easily incorporate viewing and editing of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents into any Web application; users can also easily view documents within their browser or from their desktop for free.

San Francisco (November 8, 2006) - ThinkFree, Inc., developer of the first online office productivity suite, today announced the launch of ThinkFree Viewers, free tools that allow Web services, such as Coil (www.coil-os.com), a virtual office application for work processing, to add office productivity functionality to their applications and Web sites. Viewers also provide Web users with an easy way to view office documents on the Web or from their desktop without having to purchase office suite applications. The announcement was made at the Web 2.0 Conference, which is being held November 7-9, 2006 in San Francisco.

ThinkFree Online is the only complete Internet-based office productivity suite to blend the best of the Internet's collaboration features with comprehensive Microsoft Office compatibility. ThinkFree continues to lead the evolution of Web 2.0 online suite development by providing easy integration of ThinkFree's market-leading tools for online creation, collaboration and editing of Microsoft Office-format documents with other Web services like Coil. The combination of ThinkFree and Coil brings together content creation services and a work-processing platform for end-to-end office productivity.

"Coil plus ThinkFree equals an outside-the-box office solution for professionals, students and anyone getting by with documents scattered all over the place, over-stuffed inboxes, and no project management tool to speak of," said Steve van Zutphen, CEO of Coil. "For all those generally unwilling to pay hundreds of dollars for software stuck in a box, this is great news."

Coil integrated ThinkFree to provide an on-demand virtual office where users can create and share documents, communicate on tasks, easily organize information, and synchronize team goals with project data. These offerings fit seamlessly on top of existing infrastructures, delivering a familiar, rich client experience without the heavy costs of legacy systems.

"Instead of one company trying to provide an end-to-end solution to satisfy all of the customer's needs, we are living the Web 2.0 mantra by providing an office mash-up that can be used by other Web services," added TJ Kang, ThinkFree CEO. "Our core competency is office productivity. Coil has built a virtual office that reduces the administrative burden of project management. Our integration technology allowed ThinkFree and Coil to offer a best-of-breed solution that address the everyday needs of business professionals, students and busy families."

In addition, NHN, the largest Korean Internet portal, signed a $3.2 million contract with ThinkFree to integrate office applications into NHN' NAVER portal site. NHN licensed the technology from ThinkFree to provide its 23 million users with the ability to create, edit and view office documents online through their NAVER accounts.

ThinkFree Viewers for Web developers include: application programming interfaces, a code generator for cut and paste integration, and blog plug-ins. ThinkFree Viewers for users include: ThinkFree Widgets for opening files from the desktop and ThinkFree Extensions to easily view documents in a Web browser. These viewers are available for free at viewers.thinkfree.com.

ThinkFree also provides strategic partners with tools for deeper integration beyond its free viewer technology, as in the cases of NHN and Coil.

ThinkFree leverages the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) from Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com) to ensure ThinkFree Viewers are highly available for users. Amazon EC2 is a Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Businesses like ThinkFree use a simple Web service interface to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It allows users to have complete control over their computing resources and lets them run on Amazon's proven computing environment. ThinkFree also plans to use Amazon Web Services for storage (Amazon Simple Storage Service - "Amazon S3") and Amazon EC2 to ensure that ThinkFree Online users' documents remain available and secure.

"Office productivity documents are one of the most mission-critical elements of the Fortune 500 companies we deal with," stated Kang. "With the experience Amazon has built from its Web store, there was really no other solution that could come close to satisfying our users' needs for enterprise-class storage and application management." ThinkFree's use of Amazon Web Services allows ThinkFree to address the needs of enterprise users with a complete, reliable, secure solution. Amazon EC2 ensures that ThinkFree Online can handle the scalability needed for the rapid expansion of ThinkFree Online members and the tens of thousands of documents they create weekly.

"We're pleased that ThinkFree has chosen to back their solutions with Amazon EC2," said Steve Rabuchin, director of developer relations for Amazon Web Services. "ThinkFree can focus on inventing new solutions for their customers knowing that Amazon Web Services is managing their storage and computing needs."

About Coil
Coil's organic computing connects the way people work, supporting and enhancing the way they do business. Founded in 2001 when Steve van Zutphen and Peter Maffey set out to understand how people interact with their work, Coil today is bringing together businesses and professionals in a synchronized, collaborative network. Coil is an operating system for human communication, work transaction, and content interaction delivered within a secure, service-oriented, rich client experience.

Coil has offices in Riverside, CA and Nicosia, Cyprus with virtual offices around the world. For more information, visit www.coil-os.com.

About NHN
NHN Corporation is Korea's largest internet company operating search portal Naver www.naver.com and game portal Hangame www.hangame.com.

With the two business pillars of search and game services, NHN has rolled out a wide range of innovative and convenient online services. A number of surveys well represent that the company is bound to become an undisputed leader in the online services industry in Asia as well as to enable people to enjoy digital life.

San Jose, Calif. and Los Angeles - (Oct. 3, 2006) ThinkFree, Inc., developer of the first server hosted office productivity suite, today announced that it has supplied The City of Los Angeles public library with ThinkFree Server Edition for its Central Library and 71 branch libraries. James VanGerpen, the Senior Analyst leading the project for the library, required a solution that relieved the library's IT staff and technical resources from overly burdensome installation, deployment, update, and management issues. Furthermore the technology had to be economical while providing maximum levels of productivity. After significant testing and review, the Los Angeles Public Library decided to purchase ThinkFree Server Edition.

ThinkFree Server Edition consists of ThinkFree Write (word processing), ThinkFree Calc (spreadsheet), and ThinkFree Show (presentation). These applications run within a Web browser on the desktop computer connected to the server via a LAN or Internet connection. This solution combines the efficiency and anytime anywhere access of server-based computing with the power and responsiveness of desktop-based applications, therefore creating the perfect solution for users needing a full powered office suite without the high cost. ThinkFree also provides the best document compatibility with Microsoft Office and multi-platform support, even in a mixed environment with Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. One of the key features for the LA Public Library is the multi-language support Server Edition offers.

"The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) system supports over 2,200 public access computers located in 71 branch libraries and Central Library," comments Mr. VanGerpen. "LAPL chose ThinkFree Server Edition in order to provide Word Processing capabilities to each of these public access computers while only having to operate and maintain a single webserver."

ThinkFree, Inc. developed the first and only server hosted office suite that allows users to edit Microsoft Office files and create seamlessly compatible documents from any connected computer, without ever having to buy Microsoft software. This solution addresses the particular needs of enterprises looking for total cost of ownership (TCO) savings as well as eliminating costs associated with the installation, update, and management of software on individual desktops.

"The Los Angeles Public Library is the perfect partner for us to showcase our office productivity suite," states ThinkFree CEO and founder TJ Kang. "We were easily able to customize ThinkFree Server Edition to meet the specific requirements of LAPL. Furthermore, working with such a leading edge IT department to allow the citizens of LA to access free office productivity features was a fantastic experience for us."

Pricing and Availability ThinkFree Server Edition is available now for the cost of $30 per user per year. Educational, Non-Profit and Volume pricing discounts are available. For more information please contact

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About the Los Angeles Public Library The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest urban population of any library in the country. Its Central Library, 71 branch libraries, six million books and state of the art technology provide everyone with free and easy access to information. For further information, visit the Library's Web site at www.lapl.org.