Mar 18, 2009 10:00 ET

Ifbyphone Launches First BlackBerry Application

Conference Calling and Voice Broadcast Functions Coupled in a Free Download

CHICAGO --(Business Wire)-- Mar 18, 2009 Ifbyphone today announced its first BlackBerry® application—conference calling and voice-broadcast messaging combined in a free download—enhancing the functionality of the popular communications devices from Research In Motion (RIM).

“We are thrilled to deliver Ifbyphone for the BlackBerry, giving millions of BlackBerry users a simple and free conference and broadcasting tool,” said Irv Shapiro, CEO of Ifbyphone. “This is the first application of its kind and another example of Ifbyphone’s continued innovation in the wireless space.”

The Ifbyphone application utilizes BlackBerry users’ existing contacts lists, allowing users to create groups of contacts for conference calls or voice-broadcast messages. Ifbyphone will provide the first 100 minutes of use per month free to users of the application, which is available now at http://www.ifbyphone.com/blackberry and via Handango at http://www.handango.com.

Ifbyphone intends to make its BlackBerry application available at RIM’s BlackBerry Application Storefront when it opens this spring.

To use the new application’s conference-calling function, a BlackBerry user creates a list of participants from among his or her stored contacts and can then initiate an impromptu conference call immediately or schedule a future call, all with one click.

Similarly, to use the voice-broadcasting function, the user creates a list of recipients and records a voice message for immediate or future delivery. The voice-broadcasting function would be ideal for a busy sales manager traveling to a client meeting who wants to give instructions to all members of a team of sales reps.

The BlackBerry application is another example of the flexibility of Ifbyphone’s powerful application programming interface (API), which enables developers to create highly innovative applications and integrate telephony into business processes.

To learn more about Ifbyphone’s affordable suite of online telephony applications, such as Voice Broadcasting, Conference Calling, Call Tracking and Hosted IVR, visit http://www.ifbyphone.com.

About Ifbyphone

Ifbyphone is a telephone-automation-application company that provides small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with tools to enhance customer conversations, drive sales and lower costs. Leveraging Ifbyphone's extreme usability, developers and marketers can quickly create solutions ranging from simple click-to-call links to sophisticated call routing and interactive-marketing systems. Ifbyphone's solutions are available directly to SMBs and through a network of resellers. For more information, visit www.ifbyphone.com.

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