05-11-2007
Commercial Launch of VoxConnect


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Contact:
Sue Huss
Comunicano, Inc.
sue.huss@comunicano.com
+1 619-379-4396






SYDNEY, Australia–Oct. 30, 2007—Voxalot, the global voice applications provider, has announced the commercial launch of VoxConnect™, a Web Services API for Web site operators, widget creators and application developers who wish to easily embed new Voice 2.0 calling features into their online services and applications. The API gives enterprises use of all of the Voxalot core telephony functions that are currently available to consumers. It requires very little knowledge of telephony for developers, and no special telecom equipment for end-users.  

By leveraging Voxalot’s advanced telephony functions within their online applications, site operators can customize and monetize different telephony applications for their members. Examples of such applications are limited only by developers’ own inventiveness, and include anonymous calling for dating and social networking sites, click-to-call yellow-page directories, voicemail, as well as user-configured find-me/follow-me settings, which direct calls to reach members wherever they are.

Other embeddable VoxConnect services include:

• telephone number validation via PIN (for fixed line, mobile and VoIP phone numbers);
• inbound call routing, which routes calls by time-of-day, by caller and other parameters;
• voicemail; and  
• call-history information.

“With VoxConnect, developers can produce a whole new generation of voice-enabled Web sites,” said Tony Mascarenhas, Voxalot CEO. “Social networking and online dating sites, for example, are naturals for voice integration. With embedded telephony capabilities, site members can upgrade their interaction from IM chat to spoken conversation, without giving their phone numbers away to as-yet unknown people. For site operators, this anonymous calling feature opens up a new revenue stream.”

As a Web-based service, VoxConnect easily integrates an online event with both simple and complex voice applications. VoxConnect’s phone number verification (fixed line, mobile and VoIP telephone number), for example, provides site operators with the ability to validate phone numbers entered on their site, ensuring that the person/member registering the phone number is in fact the true holder of that number.


About Voxalot

Voxalot is a global voice applications provider that offers value-added services and features to existing customers of Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs). Members use their own VoIP providers to make calls, while taking advantage of Voxalot’s free and low-cost advanced IP telephony services.

Voxalot’s basic (free) consumer service, VoxBasic™, includes a free and permanent Internet telephone number, which can reach any device or software-based telephony end-point logged onto the Internet. This makes it very easy for that member to change ITSPs should they desire, because contacts can keep using the same Voxalot-supplied number (the SIP URI) in their address books.  Basic service also expands its members’ range of free calling to the subscribers of more than 2,000 registered SIP domains around the world, and extends access to them through over 200 global PSTN dial-in numbers.

For less than the cost of one month’s VoIP service, a VoxPremium™ annual subscription supplies features that include selectable call routing rules, advanced telephony tools, Web-based voicemail, and Web-based call-back. For more information on these and other Voxalot features, please visit www.voxalot.com.