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HearMe is now available for Salesforce.com’s Force.com AppExchange. “The integration turns HearMe into an excellent choice in video conferencing for Salesforce CRM, allowing users to quickly connect with co-workers and customers via video conferencing in real time,” a news release said.

Among the features:

– Schedule and launch desktop video conferences directly from the
Salesforce CRM user interface
– Share pre-recorded video in real time as part of the meeting
– View each other and interact in real-time through voice, video and
chat in rooms with up to 2,000 participants simultaneously
– Share documents and desktop applications with other room participants

“As businesses have looked for ways to cut costs, whether by enabling a virtual work force, or eliminating the need to travel, desktop video conferencing has come to the forefront,” said Hannah Rothman, Senior Marketing Director for HearMe. “HearMe’s solution has a feature set that allows businesses to connect in real-time to employees and customers alike, while offering a low cost, flexible collaboration solution.”

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HearMe has released Version 3.1. The new version of the web-based desktop video conferencing and online collaboration solution has increased support for use with Windows Vista. Other enhancements include an optional standalone desktop application and web document presentation mode.

“By integrating with the tools businesses use daily, such as SugarCRM, we’re able to drive HearMe into the DNA of our customers’ work cultures,” said Matt Gore, vice president of marketing for HearMe. “Integrations such as this one illustrate a larger trend in the marketplace — the blending of CRM and collaboration applications into a unified solution to increase productivity.”

The HearMe solution is intended to offer small businesses and distance education systems a real-time solution at an affordable price.

“SugarCRM is a powerful platform for effectively building and maintaining relationships with customers,” said Paul Oh, vice president of technology alliances at SugarCRM. “HearMe’s audio and video conferencing features offer a natural way to extend those relationships by connecting customers in a face-to-face manner.”

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In meshing Starbucks’ theme of "…ethically sourcing and roasting the highest quality arabica coffee in the world…"  and  AT&T with "Your World. Delivered," here is a look at their new brochures which they are passing out to promote AT&T WiFi.

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Web-based desktop video conferencing and online collaboration solutions just got a little more feature-rich. HearMe has released an upgrade (version 3.0) that allows users to preset pre-recorded videos and has an improved layout, user interface and audio quality.

With HearMe’s video library, presenters can also upload and broadcast videos to all participants in a video conference.

The solution is ideal for small businesses, distance educators and mobile workers.

“For more than a year, we’ve been increasing the flexibility that HearMe offers to users, and this new version shows our commitment to continuing to do so at a cost-effective price point,” said Matt Gore, vice president of marketing for HearMe. “The additional audio and video features, as well as the enhanced interface, provide professionals a new level of interactivity with the people they need to be connected to. These increased capabilities also offer new opportunities to integrate with other technologies, such as CRM platforms, and continue to improve the way our users communicate with the world.”

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San Jose, CA — January 31, 2007 – HelloSoft Inc., the world’s leading provider of VoIP products, announced today that Skype has licensed HelloSoft’s Internet-Telephony technology which will be incorporated into Skype’s communication software. HelloSoft’s technology will allow consumers to enjoy free, high-quality voice calls anywhere their smartphones and Pocket PCs can connect to the Internet.
“HelloSoft products being a low-footprint design are extremely cost-effective and power-efficient,“ said Krishna Yarlagadda, HelloSoft’s President and CEO. “Our technology will support today’s mobile and wireless generation as they use Skype™ on the go. We are excited to be working with Skype to enhance the performance of Skype for Windows Mobile.” “We are always looking for ways to enhance the voice quality for Skype users,” said Eric Lagier,
Skype’s Director of Business Development, Hardware and Mobile. “Working with HelloSoft will not only help provide millions of Skype users around the world the voice quality they expect from Skype, "voip niche com violates other people’s posts" but helps deliver the same clarity on their mobile devices that they get on their computers.”
HelloSoft’s award winning VoIP technology is the industry’s most optimized and comprehensive software solution including SIP, media subsystems, vocoders, and IMS/VCC. HelloSoft has a range of VoIP products to meet the price and performance needs of multiple high-volume markets, including next generation multi-mode mobile handsets, PDAs, IP phones, and ATAs.
About HelloSoft
HelloSoft’s vision is to empower, enable and expedite the converged communications eco-system globally, by providing highly optimized, power-efficient, cost-effective, mass market, communications technologies and solutions. A pioneer in feature-rich customizable VoIP platform, combined with its best-of-breed Cellular and WLAN Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio, HelloSoft’s offerings enable costeffective,
low-power and high performance mass deployment of multi-mode mobile and portable
communication devices for the converged market place. HelloSoft is the inventor of RISC-only implementation, which has been adopted by 30+ major semiconductor and OEM/ODM companies worldwide. HelloSoft strategic partners include Texas Instruments, Intel, ARM, MIPS, Symbian and LongBoard.

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It seems that the cost of enabling 911 services will be the fall of the small guys. It is rather expensive right now to provide 911 services. My thoughts on that is; It is time to regroup. Individually one might not be able to afford the 911 services. But what if all or some of them band together? consortium could be able to pay the price via a membership fee. Also avenues like pushing the equipment vendor or the termination servie provider to furnish the requirements might keep the small guy above the water