| Vapps
to Provide Free Conference Calling Plug-in Application for
Yahoo! Messenger with Voice
Tens of Millions of Yahoo! With Voice users worldwide swill
be able to enjoy free conference calling
Boston, MA (Fall VON), September
11, 2006 – Vapps is extending its free conference
calling platform to Yahoo!® Messenger with Voice’s
80 million users worldwide*, the global infrastructure supplier
of VoIP conference calling solutions announced today.
Yahoo! Messenger with Voice users will now have be able to
engage in free conference calling with their friends and family
through ConFreeCall, provided by Vapps. The announcement further
demonstrates Vapps’ ability to enable large scale social
networking portals to offer premium conference calling services
to their users, increasing the value of their service offering.
ConfreeCall (www.confreecall.com) will
allow Yahoo! Messenger with Voice users to enhance their instant
messaging (IM) experience and enable them to connect simultaneously
through voice conferencing with their growing network of friends,
family and colleagues.
“With beginnings as a back-end conference calling provider,
our team of seasoned programmers have revolutionized the way
we look at web-based conference calling by developing web
platforms that compliment technologies such as Yahoo! Messenger
with Voice to create a more advanced experience for consumers,”
said Ben Lilienthal, CEO and co-founder of Vapps. “We
used to look at the conference call as merely a business solution,
with the introduction of services such as ConFreeCall, the
landscape has changed to be a tool for online communities
as well.
“Partnering with a great brand like Yahoo! is a tremendous
opportunity for us to spread adoption of web-based conference
calling as consumers look to be more connected and have a
more advanced online experience,” added Lilienthal.
Yahoo! Messenger with Voice subscribers have access to a complete
plug-in gallery (http://us.gallery.yahoo.com/messenger)where
they can choose to download the ConFreeCall plug-in and add
high quality conference calling to their personalized IM experience.
Users will be supplied with a conference bridge number as
well as participant codes for use by up to 500 participants
simultaneously. A variety of services will be available through
the ConFreeCall plug-in including, standard call management
(volume control, muting, participant announcing, conference
locking and recording) along with sophisticated moderator
features for Web-based on-demand call control. The service
is free to subscribers.
About Vapps
Vapps is a global infrastructure supplier of VoIP conference
calling solution and partners with service providers to provide
complete online business services for the SME market. Vapps
also develops licenses and supports enhanced services products
for converged network providers. The company's flagship product,
the CB1000 conference bridge, is a scalable, fault-tolerant
conference calling platform for converged networks being used
by service providers like Highspeedconferencing.com, Powwownow
and Excel Conferencing to reliably and continuously provision
reservationless conference calling. Vapps currently offers
its premium services to Skype, Project Gizmo and Salesforce.com.
For more information, visit www.vapps.com
or call 201-420-1155.
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