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Phonevite(TM) Rings Up Consumer Product "Best of Show" Honors at ITEXPO West 2008

Posted on: Monday, 29 September 2008, 12:00 CDT

Phonevite(TM), the fast-growing one-to-many automated calling service, today announced it has won "Best of Show" honors in the Best Consumer Offering category at Technology Marketing Corporation's Internet Telephony Conference and Expo (ITEXPO) West 2008. The award, which emphasizes innovative technology and creative product features sets, was the only such honor given to a consumer product at the show.

Phonevite, a groundbreaking development in Internet telephony, has been a hit with users and critics alike since its debut in late 2007. Praised by MSNBC, U.S. News and World Report, the Dallas Morning News, the Discovery Educator Network and others, Phonevite lets any individual or organization instantly record a message, over the Web or the phone, and simultaneously send it to a list of phone numbers for immediate hearing.

Today, thousands of schools, scout troops, sports teams, churches and other organizations, as well as businesses, are using Phonevite to get the word out instantly over the phone to all their members. Security and abuse-prevention features ensure that Phonevite is a convenient and desirable service for users and recipients alike.

As an ITEXPO Best of Show award winner, Phonevite met the show's high standard as the most innovative product or solution in its category, being thus recognized as the industry's emergent leader in VoIP consumer services. In addition to recognizing innovation and creative features, consideration was given by the judges to forward-looking products that serve as a base for future developments in the Internet telephony industry.

Over 150 Best of Show contestants, all of which were featured in the Exhibit Hall during the event, were evaluated by the Internet Telephony magazine editorial staff. Judges evaluated the pre-show nominations and met with vendors to inspect and review the displayed products on the first day of the Expo. Winners were announced on the final day of the exhibition.

"The number and quality of positive reactions to our product in recent months have only affirmed that Phonevite is an idea whose time has come," said John Nahm, co-founder and CEO of Phonevite, Inc.

"But winning Best of Show at ITEXPO proves that Phonevite also has the ease-of-use and overall performance quality people look for. We appreciate the tremendous honor given to us by ITEXPO's judges, and look forward to seeing our concept grow into a service used by many thousands -- even millions -- of people."

Phonevite is a "freemium" (free/premium) service that is available for individual users and small groups to try at no cost, supporting pre-recorded messaging to up to 25 people. A premium plan, designed for larger organizations who wish to call up to 2,000 phone numbers, is available for a price of US $0.05 per successful call. In addition, non-profit organizations and schools who register with Phonevite can receive a 20% discount on the price of the calls.

Phonevite used ITEXPO to announce the launch of its API development platform. The platform allows partner organizations to private-label and develop VoIP broadcasting services for their users by leveraging Phonevite's proven, massively scalable infrastructure.

To learn more about Phonevite or to sign up to use the service as a free or premium user, visit www.phonevite.com.

About Phonevite(TM):

Phonevite(TM) is a patent-pending, award-winning, cutting-edge VoIP broadcasting service that allows people to reach their groups instantly over the phone. Based on its convenient, easy and cost-efficient Internet telephony technology, Phonevite offers a range of telephone calling and messaging products/services that make life easier for everyone. Based in San Jose, California, privately-owned Phonevite was founded by executives responsible for the award-winning Dialpad VoIP service, which was acquired by Yahoo! To learn more about Phonevite, visit www.phonevite.com.

About TMC(R):

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is an integrated global media company helping our clients build communities in print, in-person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by nearly one million U.S. visitors according to Quantcast* and by two to three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELPHONY Conference & EXPO, Call Center 2.0 Conference and Communications Developer Conference.

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SOURCE: Phonevite

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