Monday, June 30, 2008

Jaxtr Scores $10 Million in Funding and Introduces Outbound Calling

Jaxtr Inc. attracted a lot of attention and money last year when it introduced a service that provides free, anonymous phone calls to members of social networks. Just put a jaxtr widget or link in your profile, Web page or email signature, and people can click it to call you from their own phones at no cost. Now, jaxtr has begun offering its members low-cost outbound calling as well. The company has also received another $10 million in funding from Lehman Brothers Inc., having scored the same amount last August in an A round led by August Capital.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

3CX Receives 2007 Product of the Year Award from Communications Solutions

3CX Phone System for Windows Honored for Outstanding Innovation

London – 3CX (www.3cx.com) announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC) Communications Solutions (www.tmcnet.com/comsol) has named 3CX Phone System for Windows as a recipient of a 2007 Product of the Year Award.

3CX Phone System for Windows is a software-based IP PBX that completely replaces a traditional proprietary hardware PBX. It is entirely based on the SIP-standard, and therefore interoperates with most popular VoIP phones, VoIP Gateways and VoIP providers. It helps businesses give employees mobility, rids them of costly telephone tag and reduces administration and training time by IT staff.

"3CX is honored by TMC Communications Solutions’ recognition of our innovative product - a leading Windows-based phone system that addresses the IP telephony needs of modern businesses,” said Nick Galea, CEO at 3CX. “Awards like this keep us motivated to continue delivering a quality IP PBX for small and medium businesses that is simple to install, configure and manage and yet includes business-grade features usually only available to large enterprises.”

“3CX has been recognized with a 2007 Product of the Year Award for their excellence in the advancement of voice communications,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions, “3CX has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future.”

The eighth annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2007 were selected as recipients of this year’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.

About 3CX

3CX is an international developer of telecommunications software, headquartered in Europe with offices in Cyprus, USA, UK and Hong Kong. It is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and is backed by an experienced management and development team.The company is focused on the Windows IP PBX market with its innovative and award-winning 3CX Phone System for Windows, which has been developed for the SMB market. For more information, visit www.3cx.com.

About TMC

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 US visitors according to Quantcast* and by over three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Call Center 2.0 Conference and Communications Developer Conference. WIMAX.TMCnet.com – Now live! Cable.tmcnet.com – Now live! For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

3CX IP PBX Passes Tests for Interoperability with Linksys IP Phones

London – 4 June 2008 – 3CX (www.3cx.com), developer of the award-winning 3CX Phone System for Windows has announced that interoperability testing with Linksys IP telephones has been completed successfully. The tested integration offers a cost effective VoIP Telephony solution that is well suited for the small and medium business market.

“3CX Phone System for Windows’ interoperability with Linksys IP telephones portfolio conforms to our strategy of offering a SIP-based IP PBX that works with the world’s leading IP phones,” said Nick Galea, CEO at 3CX. “We are pleased that the collaboration between 3CX and Linksys to perform interoperability in laboratory tests between our products has proved fruitful, as this will benefit many of our mutual customers.”

The 3CX-Linkys VoIP combination provides a highly scalable and efficient solution to help address the increasing IP communications needs of today’s businesses. Using 3CX IP PBX and Linksys IP telephones, businesses can leverage the power of end-to-end VoIP communications to help reduce deployment costs, and to benefit from a rich set of features normally only available to large enterprises.

“We are glad that all the required tests have been completed so that Linksys and 3CX customers can benefit from an excellent value VoIP solution. It is a pleasure to collaborate with such an industry innovator as 3CX,” said Alberto Montilla, Linksys Product Manager.

3CX Phone System for Windows is a software-based IP PBX that is simple to install, configure and manage, and yet includes enterprise-grade features such as integrated fax server, phone provisioning, and unified messaging that can help businesses increase productivity, reduce their telecommunication costs and boost their profit margins.

About 3CX

3CX is an international developer of telecommunications software, headquartered in Europe with offices in Cyprus, USA, UK and Hong Kong. It is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and is backed by an experienced management and development team. Its product, 3CX Phone System for Windows, developed specifically for the SMB market, has earned Windows Server 2003 Certification and has received numerous awards, including the TMC Labs 2007 Innovation Award, The Windowsnetworking.com Gold Award, as well as, the IT EXPO Best of Show award 2007 and the INTERNET Telephony Magazine Product of the Year Award, all in recognition to the company’s commitment to innovation and quality. 3CX maintains a global presence with offices in four countries and localized information available in various languages For more information, visit www.3cx.com.

About Linksys

Founded in 1988, Linksys, a Division of Cisco, (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the recognized global leader in voice, Wireless and Ethernet networking for consumer, SOHO and small business users. Linksys is dedicated to making networking easy and affordable for its customers, offering innovative, award-winning products that seamlessly integrate with a variety of devices and applications. Linksys provides award-winning product support to its customers. For more information, visit www.linksys.com.