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AUTOZONE SELECTS VAPPS, INC., AS SOLE PROVIDER OF ITS AUDIO CONFERENCING SOLUTION, SERVICING 4,000 LOCATIONS NATIONWIDE

NEW YORK (March 31, 2008) – Vapps, Inc., a leading provider of VoIP audio conferencing services worldwide, and AutoZone (NYSE: AZO), the nation's leading retailer and leading distributor of automotive replacement parts and accessories, today announced that Vapps’ Conferencing Enterprise service will become the internal audio conferencing service for more than 4,000 retail AutoZone locations. 

Vapps’ Conferencing Enterprise solution was selected for its easy conference bridge customization, scalability and round-the-clock customer service.  The Conferencing Enterprise solution uses the same technology platform upon which Vapps’ flagship service HighSpeed Conferencing is built. HighSpeed Conferencing (www.highspeedconferencing.com) is a wideband, high-definition (HD) voice conferencing service that beta-launched in October 2007 for the SMB market with low, flat-rate pricing and superior, high definition (16 kHz) audio quality.   

“Vapps proved itself as a good choice for an audio conferencing solution that meets the needs of our business,” said AutoZone IT Director Randy Byrum. “The flexibility of the Vapps staff and the easy customization of the Conferencing Enterprise service made it the right choice for us.  It is a great product, which has many of the key features that you would find from a major telecom offering.”

AutoZone will use Vapps’ customized Conferencing Enterprise service to address its large number of retail locations, which will participate in frequent calls using a toll-free dial-in number, as well as for team meetings.

“AutoZone’s shift to Vapps is validation by an enterprise level customer for our mixed mode conference calling platform that blends IP based voice communications with the more established PSTN dial-in approach that has been around for years,” said Ben Lilienthal, CEO, Vapps, Inc. “Companies like AutoZone want to reduce cost, while increasing their capabilities. Now their team can meet anywhere in the world using the highest voice quality conference service from their computers, traditional landlines or mobile phones, depending on their situation. We’re giving AutoZone the best of both worlds, without any sacrifices, while also lowering their costs.”

Vapps’ cutting-edge audio conferencing solutions are also used by leading corporations, trade associations and non-profit organizations, including MSN, Yahoo! and Skype.  Vapps’ latest innovation, HighSpeed Conferencing (www.highspeedconferencing.com), is the only high-definition (HD) audio conferencing solution in the industry that allows as many as 500 audio conference attendees, including Internet users through VoIP products, such as Skype, toll and toll-free participants, into the same conference “room,” while providing the service at a low flat-rate price, starting at $25 per month.

About Vapps, Inc.

Vapps, Inc. is a technology company utilizing its patent-pending audio conferencing technology to provide managed audio conferencing solutions to the SMB, Enterprise and Service Provider markets.  Founded in 2003 by serial entrepreneurs Ben Lilienthal and Jerry Norton, VAPPS Conferencing is a turnkey hosted service that enables any business to cost-effectively make conference calls over the Internet or any telephone that approach the realism of in-person meetings – dramatically improving the productivity of team collaboration.   

About AutoZone

As of February 9, 2008, AutoZone sells auto and light truck parts, chemicals and accessories through 4,000 AutoZone stores in 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico in the U.S. and 128 stores in Mexico.

AutoZone is the leading retailer and a leading distributor of automotive replacement parts and accessories in the United States. Each store carries an extensive product line for cars, sport utility vehicles, vans and light trucks, including new and remanufactured automotive hard parts, maintenance items, accessories, and non-automotive products. Many stores also have a commercial sales program that provides commercial credit and prompt delivery of parts and other products to local, regional and national repair garages, dealers, and service stations.  AutoZone also sells the ALLDATA brand diagnostic and repair software.  On the web, AutoZone sells diagnostic and repair information, and auto and light truck parts through www.autozone.com.  AutoZone does not derive revenue from automotive repair or installation.

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VRINGO MERGES SOCIAL NETWORKING AND ‘VISUAL CALLER ID’ WITH NEW FACEBOOK APPLICATION

Profile Pictures Imported to Address Books Add New Dimension of Personalization to Mobile Phones

NEW YORK–March 31, 2008—VringoTM, the pioneer in visual ringtone sharing, has announced a new Facebook® application that lets Vringo users import their Facebook friends’ profile photos to their mobile phones, automatically matching them to friends’ phone numbers. When Facebook friends call one another, their friend’s photos will appear on their phone screens as a type of visual caller ID.

“Vringo and Facebook are focused on sharing interesting content and experiences over digital media,” said Vringo General Manager and Senior VP–Content & Community Andrew Perlman. “By enabling Vringo users to connect Facebook friends with their mobile contact information, the Vringo experience becomes even more personalized and focused on users’ communities or social maps.”

The Vringo application enables Facebook users to update the photos on their devices through Facebook when friends change their profile pictures. Facebook users who add the application can also invite friends to become Vringo users.

The application initially will be offered free on a global basis. Vringo for Facebook is available for BlackBerry® smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM) and devices operating on the Windows Mobile platform. The application will also be available for additional mobile devices in the near future.

The application can be downloaded from Facebook at www.vringo.com/facebook. At the site, a Vringo user must provide his or her mobile number to download the application directly onto their mobile device.

Vringo’s Facebook application is an offshoot of the company’s flagship video ringtone service in which subscribers can also use their buddy lists to deliver rich media clips—“Vringos”—announcing the caller to the person being called, or to identify an incoming caller. With this service, users select their personal Vringo clips (such as customized avatars, cartoons and slide shows, as well as TV, music or video clips) through their mobile handsets or online. This (non-Facebook) version of Vringo can be downloaded at www.vringo.com.

Users can choose licensed content from providers such as Discovery Channel, Universal Music Group, Turner Broadcasting System and Agence France Presse; content they create themselves; or content imported from almost anywhere on the Web. Vringos can be shared with any subscriber in the Vringo community with a compatible wireless phone.

For further details about Vringo, to preview video ringtones or to see a list of supported handsets, please visit www.vringo.com.

A video clip demonstrating the Vringo Facebook application can be viewed here: http://comunicano.typepad.com/bam/2008/03/vringos-new-fac.html.

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.

About Vringo

Vringo is making mobile Personalization 2.0 a reality by enabling users to experience rich media ringtones on a wide variety of mobile devices and for the first time to share that media with others within a community. Vringo is backed by Warburg Pincus and by private investors. More information can be found at www.vringo.com.

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Comunicano
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Vringo's new Facebook application

VringoTM, the pioneer in visual ringtone sharing, has announced a new Facebook application that lets Vringo users import their Facebook friends’ profile photos to their mobile phones, automatically matching them to friends’ phone numbers. When Facebook friends call one another, their friend’s photos will appear on their phone screens as a type of visual caller ID.

IFBYPHONE ON SQUAWK BOX

Irv Shapiro, CEO of Chicago-based Ifbyphone, spoke to Alec Saunders on the daily podcast, Squawk Box. Ifbyphone is a converged voice and Web solutions company (and Comunicano client) that helps businesses have an enterprise-level, but inexpensive, presence on the Web. Listen to Alec's conversation with Irv here: http://saunderslog.com/2008/03/27/squawk-box-march-27-guest-irv-shapiro-of-ifbyphone/.

VRINGO VIDEO RINGTONE SHARING TO BE AVAILABLE FOR PALM TREO USERS IN RUSSIA

Palm Treo Packaging in Russia Will Include Vringo Brochure; Vringo Creating Russian-Language Web Page for Treo Users

NEW YORK–March 26, 2008—VringoTM, the pioneer in video ringtone sharing, is expanding its service to the mobile market in Russia through a promotion with Palm Inc. As part of the promotion, a brochure describing Vringo’s video ringtone service will be included in packaging for the Palm® Treo 500 smartphone™.

In addition, Vringo is creating a Russian-language Web page (www.vringo.ru/treo) for Treo users in Russia who want to subscribe to Vringo or download and share content for the Vringo application.

“Vringo is a global service,” said Vringo Senior Vice President–Business Development Steve Glanz, “but our users make it very personal and localized. Vringo subscribers in Russia who are Treo users now have their own online place to download and share Vringo content. We are pleased to work with Palm as the company introduces its latest Treo smartphone to the Russian market, where we expect Vringo will also be very popular.”

“We believe Vringo is an innovative, fun service that Treo users will want to try,” said Tim Mahne, master distribution manager, Palm EMEA. “With its multi-messaging capabilities and high-speed Internet access, the Palm Treo 500 smartphone is a great device for sharing Vringo content.”

Treo users in Russia can download the Vringo application for free at www.vringo.ru/treo. Once they register, they will receive an SMS message that will enable them to install the application.   

Vringo users can set their own video ringtone as well as invite buddies. Vringo buddies see one another’s video ringtone when they call. Clips can be selected right on the mobile device or at www.vringo.com.

Users can choose licensed content from providers such as Discovery Channel, Universal Music Group, Turner Broadcasting System and Agence France Presse; they can create content themselves; or they can import content from almost anywhere on the Web. Vringos can be shared with any subscriber in the Vringo community who has a compatible wireless phone.

For further details about Vringo, to preview video ringtones or to see a list of supported handsets, please visit Vringo.

About Vringo

Vringo is making mobile Personalization 2.0 a reality by enabling users to experience rich media ringtones on a wide variety of mobile devices and for the first time to share that media with others within a community. Vringo is backed by Warburg Pincus and by private investors. More information can be found at www.vringo.com.

Palm Treo 500 smartphone features:

• All-in-one phone and messaging device(1)
• Access to Hotmail® and other web email services(1)
• Full keyboard for fast and easy typing
• Large, high-resolution screen (320x240)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer® Mobile web browser
• Windows Live online services, including MSN Messenger
• Up to 3G speeds(3)
• Organiser with address book, calendar, to-do lists, and notes
• 2.0-megapixel camera for capturing photos and video
• Windows Media® Player Mobile for music and videos
• Windows Mobile 6 Standard operating system
• Microsoft Office Mobile for viewing and editing Microsoft Word and Excel® documents and viewing PowerPoint® and Adobe® PDF files
• 150MB of user-available memory(4), expandable with microSD expansion card(5)
• Microsoft Direct Push technology for delivery of Outlook email(6)
• Bluetooth® wireless technology

1 Within mobile coverage area only. Email, web, and messaging require data services from a mobile service provider at an additional cost. ISP and/or VPN may also be required.

2 Within mobile coverage area only. Additional service charges may apply. Connection via USB sync cable (included in box) or Bluetooth technology.

3 3G available in UMTS 2100MHz coverage areas only. Within 3G coverage areas only. Actual speeds vary based on network capacity and application design. Backward compatible with GSM and GPRS networks.

4 Actual memory may vary by language.

5 Sold separately.

6 Requires Exchange Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 or Exchange Server 2007 and access enabled by IT administrator.

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FONOLO ANNOUNCES INNOVATIVE SERVICES TO EASE CALLER FRUSTRATION WHEN DEALING WITH LARGE COMPANIES

‘Deep Dialing’ and ‘Intelligent Call History’ Will Save Callers Time and Aggravation; Press 1 to Say Good-bye to Phone Menus Forever

MOUNTAIN VIEW–Calif., March 13, 2008—Fonolo today previewed ground-breaking services that make it faster and less frustrating to call large companies. For anyone tired of navigating lengthy phone menus—“Press 1 for service, press 2 for sales...”—Fonolo’s “Deep Dialing” feature will be a welcome relief. In addition, Fonolo’s “Intelligent Call History” feature automatically maintains a history of calls made to each company, along with notes and recordings, for easy reference.

Company co-founder and CEO Shai Berger announced and demonstrated Fonolo (Pr.: PHONE-uh-low) at the eComm2008 conference under way this week at the Computer History Museum here. Fonolo, formerly FōnCloud, also announced a private beta program today and forecasted a commercial launch later this year.

Fonolo’s “Deep Dialing” feature enables a caller to skip time-consuming touch-tone and IVR-driven menus and connect directly to a point inside a phone menu to reach the person or department he needs.

The process is simple. A user starts by finding the company he needs on the Fonolo Web site, then visually scans through the phone menu and clicks on the appropriate point. Fonolo will then dial the company, navigate the phone system and call the user’s phone. When the user answers, he will be connected to the desired point in the menu. Furthermore, the user can bookmark this point inside the menu so that in the future, it is only a click away. With Fonolo, users can navigate the call-path options visually, on a computer or mobile device, then click to be connected directly, rather than plodding through the menus step-by-step.

“No one should ever have to navigate a phone menu twice again,” Berger said. “We’re building Deep Dialing to respond to the growing frustration of navigating increasingly complex phone menus. 

“Everyone hates hearing the same questions and dialing the same option keys when they call airlines, banks, utilities, insurance companies, and the like. It’s a universal complaint,” he said.  “We know Fonolo will be useful to everyone who hates to waste their time and valuable cell phone minutes.”

Fonolo’s “Intelligent Call History” revolutionizes call recording and logging by:

• Automatically organizing all of a user’s calls to a given company, regardless of which phone was used to make the call.
• Storing call recordings that users can review at any time, play back to the company or forward by e-mail. (Call transcription will be offered later as a premium service.)
• Allowing users to write text notes during a call and store them along with the history; those notes can be searched and reviewed later.

“Our goal with Fonolo is to empower the user,” Berger said. “Consumers have been getting the short end of the stick for too long. Deep Dialing, combined with ‘Intelligent Call History’ and some exciting features that we will be announcing soon, all serve to shift the balance of power back to our side. We like to think of the service as a consumer equalizer.”

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About Fonolo

Fonolo is a service that helps consumers deal with large companies over the phone. Fonolo’s Deep Dialing feature allows you to skip the dreaded phone menus (a/k/a “IVR systems”) and get right to the point.  With Fonolo, users can navigate the call path options visually, on a computer or mobile device, then click to be connected directly, rather than plodding through the menus step-by-step. Fonolo’s Intelligent Call History feature tracks all the calls a user makes to a particular company, no matter which phone he uses, and automatically organizes them along with notes and recordings.

Fonolo has developed proprietary technology that automatically “spiders” IVR systems, thus building and maintaining a database of the numbers that consumers typically call. This “map of phonespace,” a dataset that has never been built before, powers Deep Dialing and Fonolo’s other innovative features.

Fonolo is designed for anyone who has been frustrated dealing with large companies over the phone. In particular, it appeals to people who hate wasting time—and cell phone minutes—with automated phone systems, and to people who want a better way to keep track of their call history. 

Fonolo is privately held and based in Toronto. The service is currently in closed beta.

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

YUGMA ENHANCES INNOVATIVE WEB-COLLABORATION SERVICE

Improved Features Include Advance Scheduling, File-Sharing, Always-On Capability

MINNEAPOLIS, MARCH 11, 2008 – Yugma, the leading Web-collaboration service that lets people connect instantly over the Internet to share content and ideas using any application or software, today announced availability of new and enhanced capabilities. Yugma is radically easy to use, works seamlessly across Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, and is available in a free basic version.

The Skype-certified service revolutionizes real-time collaboration by enabling quick and instant sharing of ideas by letting users conduct virtual meetings or webinars and to share desktops spontaneously. The newest version of Yugma adds features that make the service even easier and more fluid to use than before. It includes the ability for users to schedule online meetings in advance; meet “on the fly;” chat; collaborate interactively on documents, applications or virtual whiteboard; share files; change presenters, and record sessions for subsequent playback or webcast. Further, the new version has an “always on” feature that allows users to run Yugma in the background so that a spontaneous collaboration session with business associates, clients, and partner organizations is only a click away.

Yugma redesigned its website to coincide with release of the new version. “Users of our earlier versions say they like Yugma better than the other well-known names in collaboration, like WebEx,” said Yugma Chief Operating Officer Karel Lukas. “Our new version is a highly effective applications platform that really is the next generation of Web collaboration. Yugma provides the visual component to online conferencing and is much more than ‘I talk and you listen;’ its strength truly is in spontaneous collaboration.”

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About Yugma, Inc. Yugma is an easy-to-use, reliable and secure web-collaboration service that enables people to instantly connect over the internet to communicate and share content and ideas using any application or software. Whether they use a Windows, Mac or Linux computer, users can connect on-demand and real-time with co-workers, clients, friends and family -- regardless of whether they are across the city, nation or even the globe. Popular uses include spontaneous collaborations, presenting proposals and creative work, product demonstrations, conducting training, customer service, team reviews, remote support and troubleshooting, collaboration by artists, writers, and design professionals, study groups or tutoring sessions, and hosting virtual clubs or social events.

Yugma is available in free basic and premium service levels. “Yugma” is a word from the Sanskrit language meaning "the state of being in unified collaboration." Yugma, Inc. is a privately held venture-backed company headquartered in Minneapolis, MN and also has an office in India.

IFBYPHONE UNLEASHES THE POWER OF ‘PHONE MASHUPS’ WITH 1 MILLION FREE MINUTES OF PHONE TIME

Promotion Aims To Get Developers Designing Applications for SMB Market

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 13, 2008—Ifbyphone, the Chicago-area voice application platform company, announced today it is offering up to 1 million minutes in free phone time per month and a new Facebook phone application to demonstrate to developers the power of phone mashups to connect the Web to voice applications.

“We’re funding this initiative because we believe so strongly in helping small businesses turn Web traffic into ringing telephones via mashups,” said Ifbyphone founder and CEO Irv Shapiro. “Interactive Voice Response systems and phone mashups should not be limited to large enterprises. By partnering with hundreds of independent developers this initiative will deliver this exciting new technology to businesses of any size.”

“Phone mashups” are Web applications that combine data from more than one source into a single integrated tool accessed from any phone.

Speaking at the eComm2008 Conference being held at the Computer History Museum here this week, Shapiro said: “Phone mashups unleash the power of all phones, from your mobile phone to your landline to your VOIP phone, even old-fashioned rotary-dial phones. That means owners of small- and medium-sized businesses with no knowledge of computers can have their phones ring from the Web. Ifbyphone launches conversation starters that lead to sales.”

There are three ways to take advantage of Ifbyphone’s offer:

• Phone-Me-Now. This calling technology makes it possible to dial phones from a wide variety of locations, including Web sites, e-mail messages, Microsoft Word documents, PDF documents, PowerPoint presentations and more. Free Phone-Me-Now accounts are limited to 100 minutes of U.S. phone calls per month and expire in six months. At the end of six months, the subscriber may upgrade to a traditional Ifbyphone subscription beginning at $14.95 per month. To try out this service, go to http://public.ifbyphone.com/services/phone-me-now.

• Free Ifbyphone Facebook Widget. Facebook users will be able to make anonymous phone calls to people on their Friends list. A friend visiting your Facebook profile enters a phone number and rings your phone. The first 1,000 Facebook users who sign up will receive free Ifbyphone’s Facebook Phone-Me-Now accounts. Users receive up to 100 minutes calling time per month for six months and then can upgrade to a traditional Ifbyphone account for $14.95. This widget was developed using the standard Ifbyphone Phone Mashup API. The widget is available under Applications at Facebook.com.

• Developments for developers. Ifbyphone has established www.phonemashup.com to encourage developers to build phone mashups. It includes discussion forums and blogs to get developers talking, along with the tools to create mashups and a repository for distribution of phone mashups. Ifbyphone also is offering developers free  phone mashup accounts with full access to the Ifbyphone Phone Mashup API, including Interactive Voice Response capabilities typically only available to major corporations. Free Phone Mashup accounts are limited to 100 minutes of U.S. phone calls per month and expire in 6 months. At the end of six months, subscribers may upgrade to a traditional Ifbyphone subscription beginning at $39.95 per month. All Ifbyphone services also include complete Interactive Voice Response (IVR) capabilities traditionally only available to major corporations. These IVR capabilities include interactive voice dialogs (Voice Forms), automated speech recognition and text to speech capabilities.

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About Ifbyphone

Ifbyphone is a voice application platform (VAP) that provides small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) an easy means to develop innovative ways to talk directly with their customers—without the high cost and complexity typically associated with building voice-enabled solutions. Leveraging Ifbyphone's major advances in usability, Web developers, interactive marketers and customer service professionals can now quickly create everything from simple click-and-call buttons embedded into Web pages and e-mail to sophisticated call-routing and interactive-marketing solutions—transforming the SMB telephone into a powerful tool to increase lead generation, improve sales conversion and enhance customer experience. Based in Skokie, Ill., Ifbyphone offers hosted VAP services that are available directly at www.ifbyphone.com or through a network of value-added resellers for an affordable monthly fee, with no upfront costs. For more information click www.phone-me-now.com/8772955100 to speak to a sales professional or visit the company website at www.ifbyphone.com.

Contact:
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sue.huss@comunicano.com
+1 619-379-4396

MOBIVOX LAUNCHES ‘SAY IT AND SAVE IT’ FEATURE

Advanced Voice Recognition Lets Mobivox Users Add Contacts By Simply Speaking Their Names

MONTRÉAL–March 13, 2008—MOBIVOX, the international calling service that connects family and friends around the world for free from any phone, announced today the launch of a new feature that makes calling by voice even easier. Create a Contact enables MOBIVOX users to add contacts to their online contact book in their own voice, by simply speaking the information over any telephone.

Nitzan Shaer, COO of MOBIVOX, said, "MOBIVOX already simplifies international calling, by enabling users to dial by voice and place free calls to anywhere in the world. Today, we are excited to take this service a step further, making it even easier to add to the list of people you can call—simply by speaking their names.”
 
Previously, after MOBIVOX members registered for free at www.mobivox.com, they uploaded or typed in their contacts names and numbers. While they can continue to use that method, the new voice-driven process makes it easy to add new contacts, from any phone, anywhere.

MOBIVOX’s advanced speech-recognition technology hears the spoken name of a contact and instantly connects the caller to contacts anywhere in the world.

According to Shaer, “This new feature will dramatically improve the speech recognition accuracy, and is especially useful for those with multi-cultural backgrounds and non-English contact names. These are precisely the people who use MOBIVOX the most to keep in touch with their home country and loved ones far away.”

MOBIVOX has also built intelligence into its voice-recognition system that identifies a frequently dialed number that does not exist in the contact list. The automated attendant then prompts the caller to create a contact. This is especially helpful to users who travel extensively and don’t have their address books readily accessible.

Shaer will discuss these and other methods used by his company to optimize speech recognition accuracy at the Emerging Communications (eComm) Conference 2008 in Mountain View, Calif., on Wed., March 12.

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About Mobivox

MOBIVOX is an international calling service that makes it possible to call friends and family around the world for free from any phone. Calls between members are free to more than 40 destinations. For all other calls, MOBIVOX offers extremely low rates starting at 1.9 cents per minute.

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MOBIVOX Named a Finalist in the 2008 “Webware 100” Awards for Communication

Online Voting Poll for Winners is Open to the Public at
http://www.webware.com/100

MONTREAL, March 6, 2008 - MOBIVOX today announced that their calling service has been selected by the editors of Webware, a CNET site, as a finalist in this year’s “Webware 100” Awards for Communication. The Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation.  Finalists are selected by the editors of Webware, but the ultimate winners will be picked by the public.  Winners will be announced on Monday, April 21, 2008.

Webware (www.webware.com) provides the latest information on Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications. Its timely and relevant blog entries about hundreds of web-based services, such as wikis, blogs, and social networking sites, help users determine the best products for them to use in their daily lives.  Webware is led by veteran tech journalist and CNET Editor-at-Large Rafe Needleman, with additional entries from the CNET editors.  Webware editors received and reviewed thousands of entries.  Voting is open to the public beginning Monday, February 25, 2008 at noon PACIFIC and closes on Monday, March 31, 2008 and can be accessed at http://www.webware.com/100.

MOBIVOX makes it possible to call family and friends around the world for free, from ANY phone. MOBIVOX members simply dial a local access number and say the name of the person they’d like to call. No calling cards and long numbers to remember. No need for a computer, special software or complex downloads. Calls between MOBIVOX members are free to over 40 destinations. For all other calls, MOBIVOX offers affordable rates starting at 1.9 cents per minute.

“We set high standards when we launched MOBIVOX last year. We are proud to offer a free and low cost, high quality, international calling service that can be used from any phone, anywhere.” said Nitzan Shaer, COO MOBIVOX.  “We’re honored that Webware has recognized our efforts as we continue to build out our services and extend our user network.”

The ten categories include Audio (music, podcasts, and audiobooks); Browsing (browsers, start pages, RSS readers, widgets, and runtime engines); Commerce and Events (retail, auctions, travel, real estate, concerts, and conferences); Communications (e-mail, chat, and voice); Productivity (app suites, to-do lists, and groupware); Publishing and photography (blogging, content management, and photo sites); Search and Reference (search engines, encyclopedias, and mapping); Social (social networking, family sites, recommendations, online worlds, and contests); Utility and Security (infrastructure providers, storage, and online protection); and Video (video storage, playback, streaming, editing, and animation).

Winners will be invited to celebrate at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco (http://www.web2expo.com/) held April 22-25 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco.  Web 2.0 Expo is the official partner of the 2008 Webware 100 Awards. 

More than 480,000 votes were cast in the 2007 Webware 100 Awards.  Last year’s winners can be seen here:  Http://www.webware.com/html/ww/2007.html

Cast your vote for MOBIVOX today at http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100/2008/vote_comm.html?compid=103377

About MOBIVOX

MOBIVOX is an international calling service that makes it possible to call friends and family around the world for free from any phone. Calls between members are free to more than 40 destinations and members can save up to 98 percent on all other international calls to non-MOBIVOX members.  Mobivox is a privately held company whose investors include IDG Ventures Boston, IDG Venture Investment China, IDG Ventures Vietnam, Brightspark and Skypoint.

For more information, please visit http://www.mobivox.com.

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