AOL enters area VoIP market
Seattle and Tacoma are among 40 markets nationwide where Internet
service provider America Online Inc. began offering online phone service
in April.
AOL Internet Phone Service uses Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP,
technology for placing phone calls via the Internet or similar computer
networks instead of through traditional phone networks.
Also in the initial market launch is Portland, Ore.
AOL offers an introductory price for its Internet phone service to new
subscribers to its broadband Internet access service. It has other rate
plans for existing Internet subscribers who want to add the VoIP phone
service. The service brings together voice, e-mail and instant messaging
and includes other common features such as call waiting, call forwarding
and caller ID.
ITEC conference planned for June
The Seattle ITEC conference will be held June 8-9 at the Washington
State Convention and Trade Center.
The conference is an annual business-to-business forum for regional and
national companies, small and medium business managers, executives, and
IT professionals
ITEC provides an educational platform featuring an interactive show
floor, technology-specific conference tracks, vendor sessions, and
keynotes from national industry experts. For more information, visit
www.goITEC.com.
Talisma buys KnowledgeBase.net
Talisma Corp., a Bellevue-based provider of customer relationship
management software, has acquired KnowledgeBase.net, a maker of customer
support software based in Los Angeles.
Talisma will incorporate KnowledgeBase.net's technology, intellectual
property and customer base into its own operations, and an undisclosed
number of employees will join the company.
Talisma's sales staff has been selling the KnowlegdeBase technology for
about 18 months through an OEM agreement.
Last year Talisma purchased another maker of competing software, eAssist
Global Solutions Inc. of San Diego.
MixMeister releases Express product
Seattle-based MixMeister Technology, a developer of music mixing
software for DJs, released MixMeister Express. The company says the
product is designed to let users create DJ-style mixes from digital
music files, with no special musical expertise required.
MixMeister Express lets users blend songs together with sophisticated,
beat-matched transitions that let the rhythm flow from one song to the
next. Long songs can be trimmed down to size, or short songs remixed to
make them last longer.
Parallel releases USB Info
Redmond-based Parallel Technologies released its new USB software, USB
Info. The product lets users view, browse, explore, benchmark, test, and
troubleshoot their USB devices.
USB Info features support for third-party USB 2.0 drivers and
controllers, benchmarking and performance testing of any USB device
including the individual components of USB composite devices such as
printer/scanner/copier type products.
Identsoft upgrades Business Card Maker
Issaquah-based Indentsoft Software Solutions released Advanced Business
Card Maker 2.0. The product is a business card designing and printing
software that helps users create business cards from many supplied
templates with graphics, backgrounds, and artwork.
The software can create double-sided cards of any size up to 5-by-5
inches, as well as rotate text, shapes and images, and make them
partially transparent.
WhitePages.com gets MSN deal
WhitePages.com Inc., a provider of online directory assistance services,
said it will power the Internet-based residential directory service of
MSN through a partnership with Microsoft Corp.
Seattle-based WhitePages.com recently began providing the white pages
directory that appears on MSN's home page, and expects a 25 percent
increase in page views as a result, according to a press release.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but a company
spokeswoman said the increased pages views and unique visitors will have
a large impact on its sales, which come 90 percent from advertisers.
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