Review: E-Mail for People Without PCs

July 3, 2007 By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer Review: E-Mail for People Without PCs (AP)

A Hewlett Packard Presto HP A10 Printing Mailbox appears with a color printed page, in Boston, Monday, June 11, 2007. The Presto, which has to be plugged into an outlet and an active phone jack and fed with an ink cartridge and plain white paper, functions as an e-mail program for people without computers. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

(AP) -- By offering technology that allows people without computers to read e-mail, Presto Services Inc. took on a bold challenge. Yet Presto and its Internet-connected printer that spits out the e-mails are remarkably well conceived.



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