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  • IPsmarx SIP-Based Calling Card Platform Wins “Best VoIP Product of the Year”

    March 10th, 2010 – IPsmarx, a leading provider of VoIP application and switching solutions for service providers, has just been awarded ‘Best VoIP Product of the Year’ for their SIP-based calling card platform. This is the second time in as many years that IPsmarx was selected a winner by the readers of VoIP.Biz-News.com for their experiences with the product, as well as the vendor.

    According to Biz-News.com, the companies that consistently come up as winners are those that “continue to innovate, focus on development, and have launched some amazing products into the market.” The other categories included Smartphones, HDTV and Storage.

    VoIP.Biz-News.com evaluates candidates for Best VoIP Product of the Year based on 3 primary criteria:
    1) Innovative product solutions that deliver new and compelling functionality to the market;
    2) Customer’s favorable response to the product; and
    3) Overall customer satisfaction with the company.

    IPsmarx’s SIP-based calling card softswitch eliminates the need for VoIP gateways, PSTN lines or configuration. This makes it extremely easy to deploy and begin generating revenue. The all-in-one system includes the IVR, authentication and account balance reconciliation, call routing, as well as CDRs for statements. The system can offer both pin-based and pin-less calling cards.

    Unique to the IPsmarx solution are the marketing and payment tools that help service providers grow their business faster. Such tools include an E-store, which allows customers to go online and check their balance, call history, and recharge their account at any time. Other marketing features include promotional discounts, bonus points, referral program, an e-mail marketing tool and a complete set of reseller capabilities. It offers a variety of payment options including auto recharge, recharge through IVR and gift cards. The system also has the ability to monitor usage, create grace periods, and set surcharge fees, rounding parameters, and billing criteria.

    “We are proud to be selected again for the Product of the Year award,” said Arash Vahidnia, CEO of IPsmarx. “Many SIP solutions are commoditized, so we strive to develop products that not only provide all the necessary services, but that offer unique capabilities, as well, such as our Pin-less calling card.
    Information on IPsmarx and their products can be found at: https://www.IPsmarx.com

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    About IPsmarx
    Headquartered in Reston, VA, IPsmarx is a leading provider of VoIP applications and switching solutions to service providers, carriers, ISPs and calling card providers. IPsmarx has multiple office locations in North America and the Canada, and has their solutions deployed in over 60 countries.

    IPsmarx designs solutions that provide competitive service providers with a complete suite of software, hardware, management and billing tools, training and support, allowing them to market scalable, turnkey and reliable offerings to SMBs and enterprises.

    For information on products and service offerings, please go to: https://www.IPsmarx.com, call in the US 1.703.779.3594, in Canada, 1.416.665.6999, in the UK, 44.207.023.9221 or send an email to [email protected]

    Press Contact:
    Joanne Lowy
    [email protected]
    732 600 2569

  • AXTEL Partners with fring to Extend Fixed VoIP Services to Mobile

    AXTEL, a Mexican telecommunications company, today launches its voice over internet service "AXTEL Conmigo" in partnership with fring.

    With fring, AXTEL Conmigo becomes the first Mexican telecommunication service enabling subscribers to receive fixed telephone line calls to mobile devices.

    AXTEL customers with fring will receive their home phone calls as well as personal computer correspondence with social networks (such as Skype, facebook, GoogleTalk, Twitter and others) directly from their mobile devices.

    fring also enables subscribers to share internet experiences including live chat, video calls, file transfer and more from mobile devices for free over Wi-Fi or 3G data packages.

    Tomas Milmo Santos, AXTEL’s Chairman and CEO stated, "fring is a natural extension for AXTEL’s offering… Partnering with fring helps us realize our vision to enable AXTEL subscribers to seamlessly stay in touch with their friends wherever they are at home and on the go, in Mexico or around the world."

    fring on AXTEL is supported on variety of smartphones including iPhone, iPod touch, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android devices.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with John Hermansen of Global IP Solutions

    Global IP Solutions is a voice and video processing software, enabling the development of video solution for video and voice over IP.

    They recently announced their new software available for android and iPhone platforms which will enable people to develop applications for video conferences.

    John Hermansen, marketing Programs Manager gave us an introduction to the company at the Mobile World Congress.


  • MWC 2010: Interview with Johan Lantz of Genaker

    Genaker focuses on development of state-of-the-art solutions based on SIP, they are R&D Company that aims to replace the legacy of the walki-talki devices with modern technology communicating over cellular networks.

    See our video interview with them to get a first hand impression of what it is they offer.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Chris Labonne of Dialogic

    At the Mobile World Congress we spoke with Chris Labonne, Field Applications Engineer at Dialogic.

    They are pioneers in enabling interactive mobile video and provide video-enabled engines that support direct IP streaming as well as connectivity to existing and new mobile devices.

    In Barcelona they were presenting a wide variety of applications enabled by Dialogic technology, including Click-to-Video-Call, IVVR, Video Advertising, Gaming, Messaging, and VCCV, Video Conferencing, Video LBS, Video Portal, and VRT, Video SDP VAS with HD Voice.

    In addition, they were also showcasing the latest software for QoE video analytics developed by Dialogic Media Labs.


  • MWC 2010: Interview with Olga Toprover, Sales Director at Forte IT

    In Barcelona we talked to Olga Toprover, Sales Director at Forte IT, a Russian IT company specialized in call center, IVR and IVVR software development that has been chosen as a hardware platform of Dialogic – recognized leader and developer of industry standards in computer telephony.

    At the Mobile World Congress Forte-IT was demonstrating its latest development: IntelleScript Video solution. With the help of IntelleScript Video it is possible to create various services in 3G networks, including Information (Video IVR, Video Portals, Online Surveillance), Social Network Services (Video Help Desk, Video Banking), Video Call center (Video Help Desk, Video Banking), Security Services (surveillance cameras broadcast) and Video TV.

  • Winner of the Biz-News.com "Product of the Year Award 2009” Announced

    Our polls for the Biz-News.com “Product of the Year Award 2009” closed on the 15th of February. The winner is a result of the amount of votes they were awarded by readers, all readers where invited to vote for their favourite products or service in the Smartphone, HDTV, Storage and VoIP categories.

    This is the second year that Biz-News.com runs this Award, prized with a company profile and interview with our Editor.

    In 2008 the winners were MyGlobalTalk by i2Telecom and IPsmarx in the VoIP category, Restore Point by Tadasoft in the Storage category and AmAze in the Smartphone category.

    This year the participation has been amazing and we want to thank readers for their support and interest in this Award. Without your participation it would not have been possible to announce this year’s reader’s choice awards.

    Without further delay we will below list the absolute winners for 2009.

    Winners for the Biz-News.com “Product of the Year Award 2009”

    Smartphone Category
    Privus Mobile

    HDTV Category
    HD-PVR by Hauppauge Computer Works

    VoIP Category
    IPsmarx SIP Based Calling Card Platform by IPsmarx Technology

    Storage Category
    Compellent Storage Center by Compellent

    It is also worth mentioning other strong candidates like Fonolo and Free Switch for the VoIP Category, and Data Robotics, Pivot3, Starwind Software and Xiotech for the Storage Category.

    We congratulate our winners and thank our readers for expressing their opinion and voting for their favourites.

  • Skype Goes Symbian

    Skype and Nokia today jointly announced the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform.

    Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G).

    The application will run on any Nokia smartphone using Symbian ^1, the latest version of the Symbian platform. Skype said it will soon introduce this client to Symbian mobile devices from other manufacturers, including Sony Ericsson.

    "Skype, the king of Internet communications, running on Symbian, the world’s dominant smartphone platform, makes for an explosive combination," said Larry Berkin, Head of Global Alliances and GM USA, Symbian Foundation.

    "With Symbian’s global reach, Skype is that much closer to becoming the ubiquitous real-time communications platform for hundreds of millions of Symbian-based mobile users."

    According to Informa Telecoms and Media more than 200 million users of Symbian-powered devices now have Skype at their fingertips.

    Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President for Smartphones, Nokia, said, “We’re seeing around 1.5 million downloads a day on Ovi Store now and believe that the Skype client for Nokia smartphones will have wide appeal to Symbian users."

    Check out special Skype page for the full list of compatible handsets.

  • Frings Brings Video Calls to Nokia Symbian 9.3 Devices

    A few weeks ago Fring announced the release of the world’s first mobile internet video calls on Symbian S60 and iPhone/iPod touch.

    Yestarday the company said on its blog that also Nokia E72 & E75 (and all other Symbian 9.3) users can now video call with their friends on fring and Skype for free.

    Fring recommends that all Nokia S60 users download the latest version, as it contains some quality improvements, bug fixes and better connectivity in some specific scenarios.

    The new version for all Symbian S60 devices is available here.

    According to Fring, video calls now account for about 60% of all VoIP traffic in Western Europe.

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  • MWC 2010: Interview with Gil Regev of Fring

    Smartphone.Biz-News.com had a chat with Gil Regev, Marketing Communications Manager for Fring.

    Gil gave us a live demonstration connecting from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with the Fring Headquarters, the application works on all smartphones and is currently growing by half a million users every month.

    Since the video calling has been so successful they announced that they will be expanding it to 9.2 and 9.3 Symbian platforms. This year they will look to increase their deals with industry partners and work on making Fring even better and more exciting for users.

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