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ooVoo(TM) Increases the Quality of Its Award Winning Face-to-Face Video Communications Service

Posted on: Wednesday, 30 July 2008, 09:00 CDT

NEW YORK, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ooVoo, an innovator in the way people communicate with real-time video, today announced the release of the newest version of its award winning face-to-face video chat service. ooVoo 1.7 continues to raise the bar of standards for online video communication by providing its users with its highest video picture resolution to date, featuring quality that increases the image-enhancing pixel count and quadrupling the video call screen sizes. ooVoo's popular video chat service provides for easy set up, automatically detecting compatible bandwidth and a wide range of webcams. ooVoo 1.7 can be downloaded today at http://www.oovoo.com/.

In addition, ooVoo is introducing new and improved features to help its growing community of users add friends and colleagues to their personal ooVoo contact list. The new features make it even easier for people to connect with friends, family and colleagues no matter where they are located. New ooVoo 1.7 features include:

-- Call non-ooVoo friends -- ooVoo users can send friends that do not have ooVoo a 'Video Call Link', letting them quickly and easily join an ooVoo video call via a web browser without having ooVoo installed on their computer.

-- Find Friends Wizard -- ooVoo users can search for and invite friends from within a wider range of online social environments such as email applications (GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, America Online etc.), social networks (Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Bebo, Hi5, BlackPlanet and LinkedIn), and messaging applications (Skype, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, AIM, GTalk, etc.). Once found, friends can be invited to join users on ooVoo by video message, email or instant message link.

-- High Resolution Video -- ooVoo's high resolution video allows users to send 640x480 resolution to the participants on their video call. More pixels and a larger video window results in an amazing video call experience.

-- Advertising -- The initial launch of advertising space within the ooVoo platform provides a new communication channel for media buyers and other marketing vendors.

"A year ago we created a high quality, reliable video chat service that allowed consumers to chat face-to-face with up to six people at a time. Today, tens of millions of video conversations later, we are doubling video resolution and developing new ways for users to expand their ooVoo network and to connect with friends and family," said Philippe Schwartz, CEO of ooVoo. "The introduction of ooVoo 1.7 for Windows is not only a milestone, as superior video quality has always been our focus, but also a stepping stone to even greater innovation in the future including the soon to be released new version of ooVoo for Mac. It's an exciting time to be an ooVoo user."

ooVoo 1.7 has been configured to work with more web camera hardware than its competitors. In particular, ooVoo 1.7 will automatically detect if your webcam and bandwidth will support the high resolution calls without the need to manually modify settings.

With the adoption of ooVoo in more than 200 countries worldwide, ooVoo 1.7 supports 15 languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

The ooVoo 1.7 features add to the range of capabilities that ooVoo offers through its free and subscriber options packages, which include:

-- 6-way online video calls -- Video email messages -- Video call recording

-- Multi-party phone and video calls -- up to 6 video and 6 phone participants at once -- including landlines and cell phones in the U.S. and Canada

-- File transfer of files up to 25MB -- Video effects -- Instant text messaging -- PC/Mac cross-platform capabilities To experience ooVoo please visit http://www.oovoo.com/ About ooVoo

ooVoo provides a high-quality video communication service that delivers a more meaningful way for people to call and connect over the Internet. ooVoo's technology enables people to experience a face-to-face conversation and share a full range of emotions as if they are in the same room together, whether they are across the street or across the globe from each other. ooVoo's superior quality video and audio is available to anyone with a computer, broadband connection and a web camera, for real-time video calls with up to six friends, relatives and colleagues simultaneously. ooVoo's high quality video chat service includes high-resolution video, video conversation recording, telephony, video messaging, instant message chat and file sharing amongst other capabilities.

ooVoo is privately held and headquartered in New York, NY. You can learn more and download free ooVoo software at http://www.oovoo.com/.

ooVoo

CONTACT: Philip Robertson, +1-646-300-8743, philip.robertson@ooVoo.com,ooVoo ID: philiprobertson, or Rachel Colley, +1-212-515-1954,rcolley@brodeur.com, ooVoo ID: rachel412, both of ooVoo

Web Site: http://www.oovoo.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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