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CHICAGO, Ill. June 2, 2008 -- Ifbyphone today announced the new Ifbyphone Voice
Broadcast
application for Apple® iPhones™.
Ifbyphone’s Voice Broadcast application for
iPhones enables users to send recorded messages to as many recipients as
they wish without using any of the users’
calling-plan minutes. The Ifbyphone telephone application platform
delivers the broadcasts either immediately, or at a future scheduled
time.
The new Ifbyphone application will work with any iPhone running the v2
software, both the original iPhones and the highly anticipated new
version. In addition, the Voice Broadcast feature will also work with
the iPod® touch, providing access and
capability to a wider audience.
“Sales professionals and others are sure to
find this new capability invaluable,” said
Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro. “For example, a
sales manager who is leaving town can now schedule a voice broadcast to
go out to his or her sales team while away. What’s
more, this is an ideal application for Mom or Dad. With a couple of
clicks, they can send messages to everyone in the family.”
After installing the Ifbyphone broadcast application, which will be
available via iTunes distribution, the voice broadcast message is then
created through a few fast and easy steps:
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Select the Ifbyphone Voice Broadcast application on the iPhone.
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Select the group of recipients from the iPhone’s
Address Book and enter the delivery date and time.
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The Ifbyphone service then calls out to the iPhone so the message can
be recorded. The call-back recording feature allows users to schedule
messages even if they are outside of Wi-Fi range, since the voice
message is recorded on the voice side of the network.
On the iPod touch, the user will select the phone number of a phone he
or she wants to be called on to record the message with Ifbyphone.
“Since the voice broadcasts are delivered by
the Ifbyphone telephone application platform, no iPhone calling-plan
minutes are used, nor is there any requirement for the iPhone or iPod
touch user to be online at the scheduled delivery time,”
Shapiro said.
The Ifbyphone iPhone Voice Broadcast application and the enhanced
Ifbyphone Voice Broadcast API (Application Programming Interface) will
be available to users and developers starting July 1. The application is
free, but requires an active Ifbyphone subscription.
In addition to the iPhone application, Ifbyphone also announced the
release of an enhanced Voice Broadcast scheduling API. This new API
supports the integration of voice broadcast messaging into any contact
management or CRM solution and provides much of the core functionality
of the Ifbyphone iPhone Voice Broadcast.
About Ifbyphone
Ifbyphone is a hosted telephone application platform company that
provides small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) an easy means to
increase their customer conversations and drive sales—without
the high cost and complexity typically associated with building
interactive voice response systems. Leveraging Ifbyphone's extreme
usability, web developers, interactive marketers and customer service
professionals can quickly create everything from simple Click-to-Call
links on Web pages and e-mail to sophisticated call-routing and
interactive-marketing solutions-transforming telephones into powerful
tools to increase leads, improve sales and enhance customer experience.
Ifbyphone's solutions are available directly to SMBs and through a
network of direct marketing resellers.
Information Source: Business Wire
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