Ifbyphone

To gain some headway in its launch, Ifbyphone is making Phone-Me-Now application free of charge for six months with the first 100 minutes per month free as well.

After three months, you may have the option to upgrade your Ifbyphone account for additional package that will have some additional features such as:

• click to call with custom dialog forms,
• integrated call routing and reporting,
• virtual voice mail,
• virtual recpetionist,
• outbound voice broadcast,
• web configured voice dialogs,
• call recording,
• backend database integration,
• a complete call management API

Jangl

Jangl uses local phone numbers to route calls and voicemails to customers’ mobile phones. For its users who use Jangl ins social networks such as Facebook, Jangl lets them use mp3 voicemail messages to personal email accounts and messaging centers with those social networks. Jangl’s new SMS functionality users can now use those same phone numbers they used in social networks to send text messages with their social contacts. These enhances Jangl users experiences when communication with ther social network contacts.

Specifically Jangl users can now:

• use Jangl phone numbers for direct, phone-to-phone SMS messaging;
• initiate text messaging from either PC or a phone and delivered to either;
• send and receive text messages via the web interface free,
• deliver text message to customer’s Jangl inbox and email address;
• have text messages sent directly to users’ mobile phones
• control at an individual contact level whose text messages are delivered where, directly to the phone, to the inbox or both;
• send and receive text messages over the web using the web interface on the inbox and contacts pages for customers outside of the U.S.

Jangl’s Contact Importer

The new Jangl contact importer allows it users to do the following:

• Enter their email address and password for a specific webmail account;
• See a list of all of their existing contacts;
• Click to select which contacts they’d like Jangl numbers for;
• Instantly get locals numbers on which to call or text, regardless of their location.

Similar to Skype, Wizzl provides direct peer to peer connection rather than using several peers such as one device from another unknown user. For PC to landline or mobile calls, Wizzl charges users a small amount of money depending on whether the call destination is still within Wizzl’s loop.

Wizzl’s web interface simulates that of a real phone. The virtual phone interface’s functions and features are easy to understand and are accessible with just a few click of the mouse. To give users a feel of the real mobile phone when using Wizzl, images and streams are displayed in the virtual phone’s screen.

To use Wizzl, users just need to have a PC with broadband connection, speakers and microphone or headset. Aside from the free VoIP service that Wizzl offers, Wizzl users also have free and direct access to TV and radio channels from all over the world. Wizzl envisions its applications to be the platform of private initiatives for their own TV or radion station. Wizzl’s tool eliminates the need to open a website.

Just in beta version, Wizzl has already been downloaded by users worldwide. The Wizzl beta version is already available with some of its distinguishing features as:

• Free internet calls - Phone calls between Wizzlers are free and you always have a clear connection with Wizzl.
• Free video-calls - It is simple to add an image to a call, with a web-cam. With Wizzl, one press of a button is sufficient.
• Cheap WizzlOut calls - Voice calls to both local and international landlines and mobile phones from 1.5 Eurocents per minute. Plus Wizzl offers access to over 70 destinations which are not available with other internet telephony software.
• One-to-one or group chat - Wizzlers can send text messages to other Wizzlers quickly and easily without having to register with a password.

Jaap Korevaar, Wizzl CEO summarizes what Wizzl is all about,

“It is about time that the telecom industry passes their savings - achieved by switching their users to internet telephony - through to their customers. That is what Wizzl is all about. After all, why would you pay twice for calling via internet when you already have a paid internet connection?”

Under the said agreement, Synnex will be distributing Packet8 Virtual Office Hosted iPBX phone service to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMBs). This will be part of Synnex Technology-As-A-Service products.

Packet8 is hoping that with the said partnership, its Virtual Office will gain market visibility, Synnex and its reseller arm would provide a information awareness to its clients about the benefits of remote on-demand services such as VoIP. And hopefully this campaign would bring in more customers into the Packet8’s side.

The agreement give Synnex resellers tangible opportunity to expand their market with the inclusion of a hosted VoIP solution provided by Packet8.

Bog Stegner, Senior Vice President, Marketing for North America at Synnex has high regard for Packet8’s Virtual Office System and believes that the agreement will be beneficial to Synnex and Packet8.

“The Packet8 Virtual Office system is an ideal remote on-demand VoIP solution for the SMB because it combines PBX functionality and dial tone in a no-maintenance service that is reliable, scalable and, most importantly, affordable,” says Stegner.

Packet8 offers Virtual Office service plans with unlimited local and long distance calling in the U.S. And Canada and eight additional countries for a flat-rate of $49.99 per month. Packet8’s Virtual Office system allows SMBs to implement a distributed, hosted iPBX telephony solution.

OnState was created to give SMEs and large enterprises a simple, low-cost, and scalable call center and customer contact management solution.

Pat Kelly, CEO and Co-founder of Onstate Communications, believes that toll free improves customer retention rates and at the same time attracts new customers.

“Toll-free is synonymous with quality customer service - that’s what drives a successful call center. Whether or not they use Skype, OnState customers have it all — they can always use free Skype calling, chat, and automatic callbacks as well as dial local phone numbers across the globe or use our new toll-free calling from traditional landlines.”- says Kelly.

Onstate Communication provides North American toll-free numbers that can be connected to any OnState agent anywhere in the world. Also, OnState Communication enables SMEs to create customer contact solutions. These solutions include:

• Management-free infrastructure
• Skills based routing
• Performance reporting
• Live Business Chat
• Click-to-Call web integration
• Voicemail
• Toll-free phone numbers
• Global local phone number
• Call recording and QA
• Workforce management

OnState’s toll free Skype calls provides high quality customer service. Onstate customers can always use free Skype calling, chat and automatic callbacks as well as dial local phone numbers across the globe or use OnState’s new toll-free calling from traditional landlines.

PromoMobile Publisher 1.0 is compatible with any J2ME MIDP 2.0 compliant handsets which are commonly found in well known mobile phones. Mobile manufactures such as LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson to name just a few, all have mobile phone units which runs on J2ME MIDP 2.0 standard. PromoMobile’s application also runs standard PC, so you can also work from your PC the same way that you can work on your mobile phone when publishing your mobile web content.

Using PromoMobile’s tool would certainly reap benefits for organizations and individuals who want to go into mobile web publishing. PromoMobile reduces device fragmentation since it can reside on any MIDP2.0 handset. It also speeds up productivity and time and eventually increases ROI with its easy-to-use graphical user interface. This GUI does not require sophisticated coding or extensive knowledge of programs or scripts. PromoMobile eliminates device constraints as well since it uses xml technology to publish contents. This takes the load off wireless devices and mobile phones. And lastly, PromoMobile works with bandwidth constraints with its vector/xml technology.

As a brief backgrounder, Pingo offers two types of telephony services geared for both individual consumers and business customers. Pingo provides high-quality low cost international calling and long distance service via a prepaid account with no contract agreement. Consumers can buy Pingo minutes using credit and debit cards and then start making international calls using Pingo’s toll-free access at lower rates.

On the other hand, Pingo Business is a telephony service geared for small-to-medium-businesses (SMBs). It provides SMBs with reliable, low cost, easy-to-manage international calling on demand service for up to 999 employees. SMBs have the option to use company-owned or personal fixed-line and mobile phones.

Previously, Pingo lets its users to set up their accounts to automatically recharge when they reached a predetermined balance, but with the new service, an interactive voice from Pingo network will alert users who are making Pingo calls, when their account has a low balance. Pingo consumers would then have the option to replenish their accounts’ balances through a simple touch of a key.

In addition to this new alerting service, Pingo has also introduced enhanced speed-dialing capabilities to both consumers and business users. By using an assigned local Pingo access number, users can simply press a designated speed dial number to connect to a domestic or international calling destination. To use this service, consumers and businesses must register mobile or fixed-line phones in their account line.

Jayesh Patel, VP business and development strategy of iBasis, Pingo’s mother company summarizes the benefits of this new service by saying:

“With these new features, Pingo can offer a similarly high-level of convenience and ease-of-use, all still underpinned by consistently low rates from one of the leading international carriers in the world.”

The Packet8 Mobile Talk application seamlessley connects international calls from the mobile phone to the Packet8’s digital VoIP network. When these calls are routed through Packet8 network, cell phone users will have their international phone bills greatly reduced without sacrificing convenience and flexibility when doing mobile calls.

Another good feature of the Packet8 Mobile Talk service is that it allows mobile phone users to directly dial calls from their mobile handset, contact list or speed dial directory with no additional keystrokes. It eliminates dialing of numeours key strokes such as when using calling, callback and other reduced-rate international mobile calling services. This feature is ideal when driving and you need to make an outgoing call or an incoming call is coming into your mobile phone.

What the Packet8 Mobile Talk does in order to successfully carry out international calls is to identify international prefix of the number being called and redirects the call to a local Packet8 network access number.

International calls made through Packet8 Mobile Talk is a not so expensive way of staying in in touch with your loved ones minus the worry of incurring large amount of phone bills. It does not require expensive mothly data plan or Wi-Fi connectivity. And yet, despite its affordability 8X8 made sure that unparalled voice quality is produced when making international calls.

JAJAH direct is VoIP service minus the internet. It allows consumers to make internet calls at lower cost or even free. JAJAH co-founder Roman Scharf explains JAJAH Direct as:

“With the introduction of JAJAH Direct we eliminate complicated VoIP solutions and archaic offline pre paid calling cards single-handedly, Over-complicated and overpriced solutions are now old school! The 21st century of telecommunication knows no boundaries.”

Making a JAJAH Direct Call is as easy as doing these three steps:

1. Dial one of 30 main local access numbers or visit JAJAH Direct to sign up.
2. Receive a unique local number for every friend, family member or business associate.
3. Make calls directly to newly assigned call number for free or reduced rate.

JAJAH Direct calls provide access to anyone in 122 countries worldwide. Hence it provides huge savings in terms of incurring costs when doing Internet calls while at the same time giving the convenience of a nearby telephone.

The new JAJAH service provides hassle-free, cost-saving way making international code. With JAJAH Direct you won’t type an endless list of international numbers or enter a PIN Code anymore. You get to receive the same quality of calls as doing traditional normal internation calls minus all the nitty gritty.

Once again, JAJAH proves that it is out to make VoIP calls accessbile to any phone. There is no other way to summarize the innovative JAJAH Direct than what its co-founder Daniel Mattes said, “JAJAH Direct smashes barriers to global communication.”

Under the terms of JAJAH and Jangl agreement, the two emerging companies would collaborate on strategic development and emerging products. Specifically:

• Jangl will leverage JAJAH’s telephony infrastructure to deliver phone services in 122 countries, further speeding Jangl’s growth as it continues to forge partnerships with top online personals and social networking communities, where it already powers in-context calling capabilities in more than 40 million profiles.
• Jangl and JAJAH will collaborate in serving voice advertising for mobile and landline calls. Jangl will become a publisher and begin to further monetize its traffic with audio advertising. JAJAH will supply its in-call advertising appliance to overlay audio advertising on Jangl calls.

So, what’s in it for you, as a mobile telephony 2.0 consumer? The two companies’ complimentary service is hoping to achieve substantial benefits to consumers when availing of the so called emerging “video 2.0” industry.

JAJAH’s open telephony 2.0 platform unifies the best of the Internet with the best of the existing telephony infrastructure. While Jangl’s voice services serve as bridge between the web and the phone. By distributing these voice services in social networks and online personal communities, Jangl now powers calling capability in more than 40 million online profiles.

Certainly with two companies who both perform well in their respective markets combine their powers, the end result with also be both beneficial to the two companies and to the mobile consumer as well.