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1. What is MyPWS?

Computer users need to be able to move their office desktop work environment to their home or another office in order to conduct work continuously without being constrained to time and places. In order words, customers wish to carry around their workspace to continue their work. This is called a portable workspace or a portable desktop. A workspace is usually built of one’s application programs such as e-mail, messenger, office, Internet phone, etc. Have you ever wished to carry around your e-mail all the time? Have you ever felt inconvenient when sending an e-mail (through Outlook) because of lack of such as address book? Have you ever felt inconvenient because of the personal profile set up on MS-Office to your taste varying with different work environments? These personally customized information and knowledge are the factors that you need to build a portable workspace.

2. How to get MyPWS Service?

An easy way for users to use the portable workspace is by having a Player window to manage the portable workspace on their own PC and simply to work on this player. Storing on a portable storage device, backing up on the local disk, backing up on the digital home network or office server, and storing on the Internet server are all dealt by MyPWS. Storing information on the Player windows is feasible online as well as offline. Therefore, iPWS and dWPS exist for online, offline service respectively.

3. What are the benefits of MyPWS?

Until now, users could only build their workspace on a local Desktop PC, and moreover there were no means to carry around their workspace. However, MyPWS makes possible for a user to carry around his/her own workspace whenever and whereever. The workspace can contain frequently used application programs such as e-mail, messenger, office programs, graphics tools and even documents and media files. Users can continue to work at home after work by simply pushing the Sync button on the MyPWS Player. The work will be wholly saved simultaneously on your MP3P, local HDD, and the Internet server. Take the MP3P home, and then plug in to a home PC through USB.

4. How to Pay for MyPWS Service ?

MyPWS service will be temporarily free. Open your account on the MyPWS service site and use it at your leisure.

5. Can I save my PWS at my Desktop PC ?

It is possible to automatically store your MyPWS workspace on your desktop PC. Just press the Sync button while using MyPWS Manager and save your workspace on your local PC, Home Network Server, or company Server.

6. Where can I save my PWS ?

You can save your MyPWS onto your portable digital storage device (such as MP3 player), your desktop PC, Digital Home Server, company server, internet web-hard, etc.

7. How to build my account at iPWS ?

Press the Sync button by using MyPWS Manager. Your iPWS personal account will be automatically saved when you enter the information.

8. What to Sell ?

SOFTonNET sells customers a portable workspace environment that is on his working PC, in particular, MyPWS player and Manager software. End-users purchase MyPWS player and manager software tool and install it on related his PC, MP3P, Home Server, and/or Internet Web hard disk. Then, he can run the player software to manage his own workspace to get hold of application programs, documents, pictures, musics on the devices and keep on his own job seamlessly anywhere on anyPCs. Those tools, desktops, applications, documents, files, and devices are referred to as a portable workspace environment here. Therefore, SOFTonNET sells the service of converting the environment into a service-enabled form and making them available to customers.

9. How to make a strategic partnership with SOFTonNET as MP3P manufacturers for MyPWS ?

MP3P manufacturers including Iriver, Samsung, Apple, LG, SONY, Creative Lab and etc. could make a strategic partnership with SOFTonNET for the MyPWS business so that their own MP3P could provide the best service by co-developing and marketing. The manufacturers could bundle MyPWS system on the device at his firmware in a factory and ISV's Windows application licenses can be bonded into the device's serial number. The application license protection is the essential for the business.

10. How to make a strategic partnership with SOFTonNET as ISVs (application program developers) for MyPWS ?

Shrink-wrap desktop application program developers or Client/server type application developers could collaborate with SOFTonNET for the MyPWS business by pre-install the applications on MP3P devices or post-selling pre-formatted application programs and licenses by AppsShop on the Internet. MyPWS provides a firm copy protection mechanism by binding the application license into a device's serial number. Thanks to the protection mechanism, the MyPWS provides more secure way of software distribution and deployment mechanism than that of conventional CD oriented ones.

11. How to make a strategic partnership with SOFTonNET as ISPs (Internet Service Providers) for MyPWS ?

ISPs (Internet Service Portals) could collaborate with SOFTonNET for MyPWS business by providing value-added service with mobile and portable workspace services for their existing several millions of subscribers. The MyPWS service would be a new service differentiate them from the others. Personal home page, web log hosting services grown up dramatically for the last five years and MyPWS service would be a new alternative service for ISPs.

12. How to make a strategic partnership with SOFTonNET as Web-HDD or Internet Harddisk Service Providers for MyPWS ?

Web Disk service providers have been serviced for existing customers with personal disk spaces. The personal disk spaces are being used for storing documents, music, videos, photos very conveniently. However, Web disk services are not as complete as MyPWS in terms of storing, carrying a whole entities that composing a desktop and are not even allow users for seamless working with their own workspace from one PC to the other. Now, MyPWS provides a new service by resolving those existing problems and gives an opportunity for a new service for customers.

   



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