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Star8 Corporation Launches Axiom Mail

TORONTO, May 20, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Star8 Corporation ("Star8") (Pink Sheets:IMNS) is pleased to announce the release of its proprietary push email application for its Axiom Series phones.
/ Source: GlobeNewswire

TORONTO, May 20, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Star8 Corporation ("Star8") (Pink Sheets:IMNS) is pleased to announce the release of its proprietary push email application for its Axiom Series phones.

The Axiom Mail application runs on the Star8 Axiom1000 phone, using the Android operating system. Axiom Mail is a full-featured push email application, providing users with all the functionality of using a desktop or laptop.

As Star8's business strategy is directed to provide the Axiom Series of phones to prepaid users in emerging markets. The Axiom Mail application functions uniquely, compared to other mobile email applications available in the market. Axiom Mail does not have an "always on" connection. This is an important feature for prepaid users. Generally, mobile email applications will poll the users email account using the mobile phone data connection. In this scenario, the user reduces their prepaid account every time the application checks for new email, whether there is a new email or not.

Star8 has moved all this functionality to its backend system which supports the Axiom mail application on the phone. The Axiom mail backend system does all the work providing the user with an alert at no cost when a new email arrives. If the user chooses to read the email, only then will the data connection be employed to deliver the email to the phone. Complete control over the data usage for email is put directly with the user of the Axiom1000, allowing them to manage their prepaid account accordingly. Users can then read, reply, forward as if they were sitting in front of their computer.

The Company is actively marketing the products in South East Asia and Africa now and has branded the Axiom Mail product for the African region as DigifonMail to leverage our regional distribution partner's reach into this market.

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About Star8 Corporation

Star8 Corporation (Pink Sheets:IMNS) is a global provider of low cost full-featured mobile email phones. The Company's focus is to provide a low cost alternative to the more expensive smart phones available in the market today. Star8 is strictly focused on emerging markets where the mobile operator subscriber base is predominantly prepaid. These markets do not provide their subscribers with a subsidy on phone purchases, which leaves a very small percentage of the subscriber base with the ability to afford the more costly smart phones.

Star8 is positioning itself to take advantage of the explosive growth in the Low Cost Mobile Messaging Handset market. Global shipments of mobile handsets is forecast to be close to 2 Billion in 2012.

Star8 is poised to take advantage of the tremendous growth in these markets and its products will be marketed to mobile users in South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America through existing relationships.

With management experience garnered on a global basis, Star8 has uncovered an opportunity to market a mobile handset in conjunction with a mobile email product in markets where the subscriber base in highly weighted by subscribers who are "prepaid".

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectation regarding future events. Actual events could differ materially and substantially from those projected herein and depend on a number of factors. Certain statements in this release, and other written or oral statements made by Star8 Corporation are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which are, in some cases, beyond the Company's control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the company's expectations include, but are not limited to, those factors that are disclosed under the heading "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in documents filed by the company from time to time with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or other regulatory authorities.

CONTACT: For Investors: William Car President, Star8 Corporation info@star8corp.com (905) 482-4670