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Dec 18, 2006

THRU ANNOUNCES BILL WESTFALL, VP OF SALES ACCELERATES PRODUCT EXPANSION INTO HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY

Thru, a trusted leader in Certified Information Delivery is pleased to announce the recent hiring of Bill Westfall, formerly of VHA Inc, of Irving, TX. Westfall will have global revenue responsibilities and will spearhead the entrance of Thru’s secure email into healthcare industries. Thru’s Web and Outlook Editions makes sending and receiving digital files easy, secure and cost effective while offering compliance with HIPAA and GLBA regulations.

Lee Harrison, CEO for Thru, stated, “Bill’s broad and successful experience managing sales teams is very timely given the enormous push Thru plans for healthcare and related fields. He intricately understands the transformation needed there due to government-dictated, regulations for the protection and privacy of clients, patients and doctors. He also understands how Thru’s service offers a solution, simply and securely. I am truly excited that he will facilitate Thru’s launch of the multi-compliant Thru Outlook and Web editions and look forward to the significant expansion of our sales team under Bill’s watchful eye.”

Westfall added, “Thru’s healthcare initiative, to make it easier to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), is particularly intriguing and is being well received by hospitals. It is vital the healthcare sector protect patient information and I am impressed with how Thru’s secure information delivery solutions address that issue.”

“Another area of my direct focus will be to coordinate strategic partnerships with leading vendors in our verticals. Thru is well-known for extendable software architecture and therefore, I intend to turn up the heat with some great new partners.”

Westfall spent the last 8 years with VHA, Inc., positioning the Information Technology suppliers across the 2200 VHA Healthcare organizations. Prior to VHA, Mr. Westfall was a key sales leader with HBOC and Clinicom. He has more than 30 years of successful sales and management experience within healthcare.

About Thru
Thru is an established leader in "Certified Delivery" and the "Online-Management" of digital documents and files. Whether sending secure email attachments or complete online file management, Thru's products address the challenge many companies have today securely moving information and being compliant with privacy and security regulations. Thru is headquartered in Las Colinas, Irving, Texas, with offices around the world.

For further information visit www.thruinc.com

Nov 16, 2006

THRU RELEASES UPGRADES FOR THRU WEB AND OUTLOOK EDITIONS
SECURITY AND EASE OF USE INCREASED

Thru, a trusted leader in Certified Delivery, is pleased to announce significant upgrades in the new releases of both Thru Outlook Edition v1.5 and Thru Web Edition v6.1 . Thru makes sending and receiving digital files easy, secure and cost effective while offering compliance with HIPAA, SOX and GLBA regulations. These latest software releases offer deeper levels of control, streamlined workflows and are increasingly user-friendly.

The security focus for Thru products is immediately evident in these significant releases. Thru continues to lead the way allowing users the freedom to work within the world’s most productive information exchange medium, email, with breakthrough security technology that is easy to use.

The popularity and ease of use of Thru’s Outlook Edition v1.0 can only be matched with the new release of Thru Outlook Edition v1.5.

Thru Outlook Edition v1.5 continues to allow users to send, receive, and track files via Microsoft Outlook™ with no change in workflow, but now allows transparent sending from the desktop and secure email. Using the “Send Thru” button instead of the usual paperclip icon to select files, will assure enterprise administrators that information leaving their enterprise is being sent securely, via Thru Certified Delivery, and not over the exposed open Internet. Embedded in this “security focused” release, is an easy-to-use private and encrypted channel message delivery. This enhancement is available as a simple new tab on the sender’s email composition window. Finally compliance is made simple. Modeled after the Windows Explorer, the Thru Explorer v1.5 adds searching capabilities to the already full-featured file management tool.

Thru Web Edition v6.1 has several feature upgrades that increase productivity within the application. Just like Thru Outlook Edition, users will be able to include a private message when sending Thru Mail. The message will be sent over a secure channel and will not be included in the outgoing email. Enterprise enhancements include Single Sign On or SSO, allowing easy single click sign-on from within enterprise environments. Another new feature, Active Directory Integration, allows enterprise administrators the ability to grant and/or deny users log-ons to the company’s Thru system, whether in Outlook or Web Edition. This eases the administrative burden for the already over-loaded enterprise administrator.

Thru has also developed new technology allowing Active Directory to the Thru service without compromising corporate security or requiring an appliance in the DMZ. After the admin sets permissions, the new user receives an email welcoming him to his user account.

Other upgrades of v6.1 include introducing Thru’s unique tracking numbers, a complete redesign of the external pages and format changes in the email design to increase security and simplicity and server optimizations. For more detailed information and description on the upgrades visit www.thruinc.com/services_downloads.asp.

Brent Yager, Product Manager for Thru stated, “These recent upgrades address our customer’s need for complying with HIPAA and SOX regulations and also Thru’s commitment to enhance security required for the mission of delivering information over the Internet. Our healthcare and financial services customers are asking for simplicity and security and the highest degree of user satisfaction. Our product philosophy is if it is not easy to use then they won’t use it, if they don’t use it then they are not secure. We have some very exciting product announcements to make in 2007 so keep a watch on Thru.”

About Thru
Thru is the established leader in “Certified Delivery” and the “Online Management” of digital documents and files. Whether sending secure email attachments or complete online file management, Thru’s products address the challenge many companies have of securely moving information and being compliant with privacy and security regulations. Thru is headquartered in Irving, Texas, with offices around the world.

For further information visit www.thruinc.com

Sep 05, 2006

THRU INTRODUCES OUTLOOK PLUG-IN FOR POPULAR CERTIFIED DELIVERY SERVICE

Thru, a leader in Certified Delivery, which makes sending and receiving files easy, secure, cost effective, and compliant with HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, is pleased to announce the addition of a Microsoft Outlook plug-in to its popular software products. Thru Outlook Edition is the first ever complete "Certified Delivery" system fully integrated within existing workflows of millions of enterprises that use Outlook. Thru now more easily provides a safe and secure method of distributing, collecting, accessing, and tracking files without changing users' email workflows. Like overnight package delivery services, all movement is tracked and recorded by Thru. as a certifying third party - all safely over 128 bit SSL encryption.

Getting Close to the Customer
Thru understands the importance of listening to customers and responding to their needs. The decision to develop an Outlook plug-in was the direct result of extensive customer input, particularly those in the healthcare industry. "There are significant challenges in the healthcare industry protecting patient privacy," Lee Harrison, CEO of Thru, explained. "Doctors and healthcare facilities are sending more patient information over the open internet using traditional email than ever before. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) specifically requires these industries protect patient information via encryption technologies. Because healthcare providers have come to rely on email as the data transport and file system, our customers felt integration with this mission critical tool was a must in order to be compliant with HIPAA. The big complaint about existing secure and compliant file transport technologies is that they are too hard to use, particularly for busy physicians. Our Outlook integration requires no change in workflow. Thru's commitment to ease of use drives the company to introduce new products that significantly enhance the user experience."

"Our customers have been thrilled with the new Thru Outlook Edition," said Margery Tippen, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "By including our key customers in the design and leveraging their feedback, we were able to roll out a product that is even more intuitive than before. We are truly grateful for their loyalty and assistance. They told us what they wanted and we trust that it is all they hoped for."

"Our customers asked us to design Thru Outlook Edition to be easy to use, and we designed it to not only work within existing workflows, but also to enable HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Users send files in the same manner as sending file attachments in Outlook," stated Lee Harrison. "In this highly regulated business environment, companies are required to certify that information files arrive securely and are tracked very much like with overnight paper delivery services."

An engineering breakthrough
"Thru Outlook Edition is a breakthrough," Sergey Arutiunov CTO remarked. "Today's software marketing model is SaaS or Software as a Service. Thru engineering was challenged to create a hybrid client that integrate hosted services within Outlook on the desktop. The final outcome uses the latest MS .NET technology. Combined with an ingenious implementation, our Outlook Edition pulls together seamlessly inside MS Outlook. Users are presented with file system views that appear to be local but are really securely stored in the Thru SAS 70 data center waiting to be delivered.

Arutiunov added "The Thru development path is focused on the enterprise user. In the coming months we will release a Thru Federated Identity solution that implements SSO (Single Sign-On) and synchronization with enterprise Active Directory identity store."

"The next two quarters will bring much in the way of striking new technologies from Thru," said CEO Harrison. "We have increased our research and engineering budgets considerably, thus enabling us to make some very interesting strategic and vertical announcements this calendar year."

About Thru
Thru is an established leader in "Certified Delivery" and the "Online-Management" of digital documents and files. Whether sending secure email attachments or complete online file management, Thru's products address the challenge many companies have today securely moving information and being compliant with privacy and security regulations. Thru is headquartered in Las Colinas, Irving, Texas, with offices around the world.

For further information visit www.thruinc.com

Feb 01, 2006

RUMBLE GROUP ANNOUNCES NAME CHANGE TO THRU

Rumble Group of Dallas, Texas is pleased to announce it has changed its name to Thru in conjunction with the launch of its newest delivery product, Thru Outlook Edition. The goal of the name change is to leverage the strength of the Thru. product line and to align its corporate and product brand identities.

Thru will continue to offer its market-leading FTP replacement product, formerly FTH, now branded Thru Web Edition. In addition, FTH Enterprise Server is now branded Thru Enterprise Server. Thru on-demand products offer a complete suite of online file management tools assisting public and private companies in varying vertical markets to cope with privacy and security issues. These issues surround the ad hoc sending and receiving of digital files over the open internet via the email stack.

"We are leveraging the remarkable success of the Thru Web Edition product line" said Margery Tippen, Vice President of Marketing for Thru, "With over 100 corporate customers and millions of transactions processed by our servers, we felt it was a good time to capitalize on the momentum of our existing product family and announce Thru Outlook Edition and the name change at the same time."

The new logo will build strong brand equity as the company expands into new markets. The updated look suggests the trend toward all things digital. The Green Dot signals go or Go Thru Period. The identity was created by Joe Goodwin, Image Consulting Inc., a Dallas based identity concept creator with extensive experience in marketing fortune 500 companies.

"I'm confident we can build momentum even faster now that we have a brand that more fully communicates who we are and what we do," said Lee Harrison, Thru CEO. "And while our brand has changed our commitment to excellence remains stronger than ever. We believe the future of email as a file share platform will be changed forever by our technology."

Thru founded in 2002 has since established itself as a leader in "Certified Delivery" and the "Online-Management" of digital documents and files. Whether sending secure email attachments or complete online file management, Thru products address the challenge of securely moving information and helping corporations become compliant with privacy and security regulations. Thru is proudly headquartered in Dallas, Texas with engineering offices in San Jose, California and Sydney, Australia.

For further information visit www.thruinc.com

Jan 12, 2006

RUMBLE LAUNCHES THE NEW RUMBLE ENTERPRISE SERVER

Rumble Enterprise Server Edition coupled with Rumble clients, Rumble Web Edition and Rumble Outlook Edition enables enterprise wide control of the vast majority of day to day file distribution, handling and conversion currently engaged by the enterprise knowledge worker. Files leaving the enterprise will pass through the Rumble Clearinghouse.

For further information visit www.thruinc.com