Grassroots Enterprise’s PhoneTheVote: Alternative to Traditional Phone Banks
Grassroots Enterprise, a high-tech communications firm that specializes in building grassroots supports for causes, products and companies launched its Grassroots Multiplier PhoneTheVote. PhoneTheVote is a new technology that will let you and your organization call and lobby voters with the use of mobile phones and laptops.
Grassroots Multiplier PhoneTheVote takes the traditional phone into the web 2.0 era. Instead of crowding few dozen volunteers into a cramped office, volunteers can now do their lobbying work in the comfort of their homes, in their own time and with their own money through telecommunications technology. PhoneTheVote would turn your idle time into an activism time. So if your organization is running a campaign to gather more votes or support from the grassroots for whatever campaign you are running, PhoneTheVote might just well fit in to your needs.
Grassroots Multiplier PhoneTheVote is a flexible campaign mobile marketing tool that trascends boundaries and time. Volunteer callers could maximize their time by making calls whereever they are need by geographic location, demographic, political affiliation or any number of categories. Phone scripts can also be given to volunteer caller for maximum impact. The good thing is, al the information that your volunteer callers gather are stored into a central database in real time.
Key features of the Grassroots Multiplier PhoneTheVote virtual phone bank are:
- Decentralizes and “crowd-sources” traditional organizational phone-banks
- Compatible with iPhones and other smart-phones
- Integrates with Skype or other VOIP services
- Outbound scripts can be customized in real-time
- Information and feedback from calls are accessible via web-based reporting tools
PhoneTheVote will be offered in various versions with the standard program costing around $8,500 which is not too much considering how it will help your campaign. The program is launchable in a few days upon payment of the service fee.
Nokia and Vodafone Team Up for Robust Integrated Mobile Services
Nokia has reached an agreement with the worlds top mobile operator Vodafone that will soon pave the way for Nokia handsets loaded with an integrated Nokia and Vodafone Services. The accord promises to give Nokia and Vodafone customers more range of services that include communication, internet services, and high speed 3G and 3G broadband mobile browsing experiences.
Once these Nokia handsets are released, mobile users would have instant one-push-of-a-button access to a string of mobile services from Nokias Ovi site, which is a portal to various social networking tools such as mobile photo sharing, music downloads mobile games and maps. Some of these Nokia handsets would be released exclusively for Vodafone as agreed upon by both companies.
Vodafone Global Chief Marketing Officer, Frank Rovenkamp believes that the agreement was a logical step for improving Vodafones services to its million of customers. Likewise, Nokias Executive VP and General Manager Anssi Vanjoki say that they are excited to work with Vodafone. The partnership would enable the company to provide its customers a more robust mobile service that they can access anywhere, anytime.
“Web2.0 is all about social networking and enabling people to connect with each other in new ways. Bringing location and context awareness to web2.0 services is the next stage in the web development and Nokia multimedia computers enable people to participate to their favorite internet services on-the-go,” says Vanjoki.
Either this partnership would lead to success for both mobile companies or it will just result to nothing but mere tool for media mileage remains to be seen. Both companies are industry players. And it is but expected that once two major players team up; the results should be for the greater good of the mobile consumers.
Avaya Enlists Broadcom’s VoIP Technology for 9600 and 1600 Deskphone IP
What do you get when a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications and the global leader in business communications applications, softwares and services? A fusion of VoIP technology and enterprise and small business IP phones. That is what the recent partnership agreement between Avaya and Broadcom would mean to the IP telelephony market.
Under the said agreement that was signed by both parties today, Broadcom’s VoIP technology will be used by two of Avaya’s one-X Deskphone Internet Protocol telephones, the 9600 SIP phones and the 1600 series.
Avaya’s 9600 SIP phones
The 9600 series one-X Deskphone edition has been loaded with Broadcom’s BCM1103, its most advanced VoIP processor. The BCM11103 delivers features that are important for enterprise deployments that includes high-fidelity audio, end-to-end security and advanced quality of service. Avaya telephones that belongs to this series are classified as “walk-up phones” which is used in common areas such as building lobbies, break rooms and hallways.
Avaya’s 1600 IP phones
In contrast to the 9600 phone, the 1600 IP phone belongs to the low cost family of Avaya phones which were designed to answer the needs of end-users. IP phones in the 1600 series feature Broadcom’s BCM1104 VoIP processor. This processor allows advanced IP telephony features at attractive prices that would certainly please cost-conscious customers. The Avaya 1600 series gives small businesses a wide range of choices for employing IP telephony in their company.
Paul Weismantel, Director of the Communications Appliances Division at Avaya said that Broadcom’s VoIP technology helped the company in building up an entire line of IP phones that can be used by a variety of enterprise and small business customers.
“As more small businesses transition to IP telephony and their larger companies deploy Gigabit IP networks, our Avaya one-X Deskphone line will serve the broad needs of each of these growing markets,” says Weismantel.
Introducing the Sony Ericsson W380i Walkman Phone
Sony Ericsson today introduces 2 new mobile phones in its stable of Walkman phone, the W890 and W380i. Although the Sony Ericsson W890 is the high-end handset of the two, the Sony Ericsson W380i is worth noting because of its two innovative features which Sony Ericsson is introducing into the mobile market.
The W380i boosts of a cool gesture control technology and an external display that appears only when you need it for displaying the music track that is playing or to know who is calling you.
If you think that the iPhone’s touch screen feature is innovative, well Sony Ericsson will make you think again with its gesture control technology. W380i’s gesture control feature will let you mute calls or silence the phone alarm with a wave of your hands. It simply defines what “total handsfree” is all about. With the W380i’s gesture control, you will no longer to reach out for your phone while in the middle of a nice sleep when the alarm sounds off.
Aside from the innovative gesture control feature the W380i also has a cool external display that positions the phone’s music control on the surface of the phone. With a one touch button you can select tracks to display, skip on a track that you don’t want and find out what track is currently playing. Did I say that you don’t have to open the phone to do that? This is a handy feature especially since the W380 is a clamshell phone.
But of course, the W380i also comes with other Sony Ericsson Walkman phone features. This includes a Media Manager PC software that lets you easily transfer music, photos and videos from and to your PC and the W380i. The W380i is also loaded with SE Walkman phone’s Track ID feature. The Track ID feature will let you search for information about a particular song that you don’t recognize on the phone’s FM radio. With the W380i, you no longer have to search the web for information about a particular song that you heard. You can easily do it with the W380s Track ID feature.
The Sony Ericsson W380i is slated for Q1 2008 release together with two other Sony Ericsson mobile phones, the K660i and the W890i.
Three New Hosted VoIP Programs for SMBs from Apptix Voice
Hosted VoIP solution provider, Apptix Voice is introducing three new hosted VoIP programs for its small and medium business customers. These new products which are aimed at simplifying the adoption of premium quality VoIP telephony solutions among SMBs are:
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Hosted VoIP Leasing Program — This new program was designed exclusively for SMBs. It offers qualified SMBs with an affordable leasing program to significantly reduce up-front equipment and service costs and gives access to the latest VoIP technology.
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HD Phone Availability and Polycom Certification — Apptix has partnered with Polycom, one of the leaders in phone SIP-enabled conference phones, hence Apptix customers will now have access to the latest VoIP phones and equipment from Polycom.
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Apptix Voice “Getting Started with VoIP” Program – Apptix will offer two free months of Voice service to all new qualifying phone subscribers from November 6 to December 31 to encourage more new subscribers to Apptix VoIP programs.
These new programs add up to Apptix Voice’’s innovative features that includes find me-follow me, remote office and corporate voice networking services with free on-network extension dialing. Apptix Voice also provides an integrated Outlook Toolbar that provides users with instant access to calling features right from Microsoft Outlook. Through an easy to use web portal customers can add new voice services to suit their individual needs.
Apptix Voice was launched in March 2007, it has experienced increased subscription coming from exisiting Apptix customers who are subscribed to its Hosted Exchange email customers. Through continuous dialogs with its SMB customers, Apptix has proven that there is a growing demand for hosted VoIP service, hence it decided to come out with its own hosted VoIP program that is easily adoptable and at the same time affordable to the SMBs.
Joip Powers Up Panasonic GLOBARANGE VoIP Services
The arrangement will automatically make GLOBARRANGE owners part of the global joip community. Community members of joip enjoy free calls without service contracts or hassles of connecting via PCs. Additionally, joip members can make calls to landline and cellular phone numbers at extremely competitive while at the same time enjoying the most advanced features of VoIP technology.
With joip, you can now enjoy two different worlds of communication. One, the traditional old phone service and two, a free VoIP which would let you talk to your friends and relatives in other parts of the world. Joip’s services allow free internet calls without the need for a PC or software download. VoIP calls are done through Panasonic’s GLOBARANGE unique and powerful phone.
Panasonic’s GLOBARANGE phone works with two lines, the regular phone line and a special joip line for carrying out VoIP transaction calls. Consumers who will buy this phone would not have a hard time setting it up at home since it’s as easy as any plug and play device.
With Panasonic’s GLOBARANGE phones working with joip technology, you will also get to enjoy other usual phone features such as ringtones, sms messaging and phonebook, web mail and web joip. Web joip lets you connect to any number in the world using your joip number via the web.
Panasonic’s GLOBARANGE and joip afforadable telephony service is something that we should all take advantage of. GLOBARANGE phones are available over at Amazon for around $99. Calling rates of joip is available in various plans which range from $6.99 to $24.99.
JAJAH Launches In-Call Advertising: Transforming Telephone Calls to Advertising Market Place
Innovative phone company, JAJAH is soon to turn the world’’s inventory of phone calls into an advertising market place. With its patent pending in-call advertising platform, JAJAH will change the way in-call advertising are currently being done. That is, instead of interrupting phone calls with voice advertisement, JAJAH’’s platform will instead overlay the advertisement above the ring tone just before the call starts. This way, callers will not be disturbed by the advertisement when making calls. JAJAH has been testing a method to overlay advertising content on phone calls which will both benefit consumers and the telecommunications companies as well.
Roman Scharf, JAJAH’’s co-founder said that JAJAH is aiming to change the way the advertising community sees telephony as an advertising media. “We spend more time on the phone than consuming all other types of media, TV, reading papers and radio included. However, advertisers spend very little budget advertising on telephone calls,” saysScharf.
JAJAH is gearing its in-call advertising platform as the Google Adwords of phones. JAJAH’’s in-call advertising will be made available to its users soon. And it will be offered to JAJAH users as an opt-in solution where they will hear and see targeted advertising content and eventually receive monthly credit for it.JAJAH will also give its users an incentive to earn back their phone bill or even make money while calling their friends or relatives.
JAJAH is also looking into increasing the reach of its in-call advertising to include telecommunication companies to use their platform in monetizing phone inventories. Telephone operations will later on be given the opportunity to use JAJAH’’s advertising appliance in their environments and to connect to JAJAH’’s platform.
The in-call advertising will also allow businesses to target their audience on any given scale. These businesses would be able to play their advertising messages to local communities ofJAJAH users. Hence, a more specific and audience targeted advertising campaigns will be carried out.To test this new service, JAJAH has partnered with advertising network Oridian, thus giving JAJAH instant access to a large number of companies which can try out JAJAH’’s in-call advertising.
Soonr: Connect Your Mobile Phone to Your PC, Organizer and Skype
Soonr is a mobile computing technology that lets you connect your PC, Organizer and Skype account to your mobile phones. From the company which developed business products such as Quattro Pro and Sidekick which have enabled businesses achieved increase productivity, Soonr is aiming to do the same for the new era of business mobile computing.
Soonr answers the problem of synchronizing work or home PCs to mobile devices. Using the built-in communication facilities of your mobile device, you can define your view of information and keep up to date on changes on your PC or mobile device. What’’s more, you can even collaborate with your business networks, friends or even relatives, right into your mobile phone.
As a mobile computing solutions, Soonr has three main features, Soonr Desktop, Soonr Organizer and Soonr Talk. With Soonr Desktop your mobile phone can search, view, share and forward files from any PC. Now, you don”t have to download files from your PC to your mobile phone to share it with others. You can even convert formats of files in your PCs using your mobile phone.
Soonr Organizer synchronizes various applications in your PC with your mobile phone. You can check your Outlook or Mac mail, respond to important emails, access your Outlook or Mac contacts, check or share your Outlook Calendar with your networks and many other nifty applications which you normally do in your PCs.
And lastly, with Soonr Talk, you can now make Skype calls through your mobile phone with no software to install and even supports Skype’’s chat feature. Now, that is simply neat.
To start using Soonr, all you need to do is register at Soonr.com. Registration is free at the moment for basic accounts. But a premium account is being planned in the future which will give premium services such as:
- Guaranteed access even when the host computers are turned off!
- Encrypted backup of your critical data
- International calling for pennies a minute
But even in its beta stage, Soonr seems very promising with all the functionalities that you can do with your mobile and PC synchronization. Let’’s just hope that the premium service will not cost that much once it is introduced.
Motorola and AT&T Brings the MOTO Q9h to U.S. Mobile Market
AT&T customers have a new option when shopping for their mobile devices at AT&T retail stores; Motorola’’s MOTO 9Qh is now available at AT&T retail stores for $199. With various AT&T data plans. The MOTO Q9h is a 3-G powered smart device with worldwide capabilities.
The MOTO Q9h, like all the other Motorola mobile devices, looks sleeker than ever with its svelte and eye-catching, ultra-thin design with high-end finishes that includes exquisite materials and soft touch materials that adds to its seductive features. With the MOTO Q9h, Motorola has really done well in the looks department of its mobile devices. By its eye-candy appearance alone, you would surely want to have this mobile phone.
But before you go to your nearest AT&T retail stores, here’’s a summary of the key features of the MOTO Q9h to help you decide whether to get this phone or try out something else:
KEY Features of the MOTO Q9h
- The MOTO Q9h is equipped with HSDPA technology that will let you have download speeds of as fast as 3.6 Mbps when connecting to the internet with a flick of a button. When connected to the internet, you”ll have push email capabilities to send and receive corporate Microsoft Exchange email, fast internet browsing, high-speed music downloads, video streaming and casting. You can stay connected even while you do your other errands, or connect immediately whenever you need to check important emails wherever you may be.
- Motorola’’s latest mobile phones have always been known to emit fun and excitement with is dynamic and vibrant features. The MOTO Q9h embodies these features by blending functionality and entertainment in one unique device. Its entertainment features will keep you company during lull and boring moments. The MOTO Q9h has an integrated 2.0 camera which lets you capture precious moments. It is integrated with Window’’s Media Player that has access to over 200 music libraries. You can enjoy your favorite mp3′’s via any Bluetooth stereo headsets even when you are answering important calls. Downloading music and data files is not a problem as well since the MOTO Q9h supports USB 2.0 for faster transfer of files from your PC to your MOTO Q9h’’s SD card. Make sure to get the 2GB microSD card so that you can download your favorite music video and enjoy watching it with 30 frames per second.
- With a clear 320×240 display and a full-blown optimized QWERTY keyboard which allows you to type out emails, SMS, notes, presentations and more, the MOTO Q9h is almost your portable PC with phone functionality. The MOTO Q9h’’s smooth lighting transitions even lets you read clearly even when in an environment that has poor lighting.
Ok now, is the right time to rush out to your nearest AT&T retail stores.
Speakeasy Launches Two New Voice Services for Small Business
Top voice and data provider, Speakeasy is offering two new digital voice options for small businesses as part of its Voice over IP (VoIP) portfolio. These options are Speakeasy’s ultra-fast 15 Mbps broadband and a Small Office Calling Plan that customers can use with any broadband service.
The 15 Mbps download speed which will be made available to small businesses combines Speakeasy’s ADSL2 broadband with its VoIP service. This will allow customers to receive voice-optimized nationwide network, uptime and quality of service guarantees and award-winning customer support. Customer who will opt for this service would have a single high-speed connection for both voice and data traffic with voice traffic to be given priority over data.
Meanwhile, Speakeasy’s EasyVoice Small Office Calling Plan will allow businesses with five employees or less the option to use any broadband service provider. Although Speakeasy is recommending the use of EasyVoice’s Small Office in combination with Speakeasy’s own broadband service, the company is giving its customers the freedom to choose their broadband service provider nonetheless.
Speakeasy President and CEO, Bruce Chatterley said that the company wanted to give customer the flexibility to choose their broadband provider to accommodate a range of small business needs.
“By offering both voice and broadband, Speakeasy has the ability to control the quality of service and reliability a customer receives when using our voice services over our broadband,” says Chatterley.
The two new VoIP services serve well Speakeasy’s relationship with Best Buy for Business which acquired Speakeasy in April 2007. The two companies have mergednto better serve small and medium-size business customers by providing innovative solutions that will help the businesses succeed.