pulver.Communicator Enables OEMs to Market New VoIP Products and Services

pulver.Communicator Enables OEMs to Market New VoIP Products and Services

New Product Combines Instant Messaging, VoIP, Video, Presence, and Social Networking Into One Intuitive Client Application

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer Electronics Show -- FWD Communications announced today the release of pulver.Communicator(TM) (http://www.pulver.com/communicator ) to OEMs looking to offer innovative new VoIP products and services to their customers. Introduced in October 2004, the pulver.Communicator product is an innovative new application that combines the best elements of IP Communications -- instant messaging (IM), voice, video, presence, and social networking -- into one platform.

"Already pulver.Communicator has received a lot of interest from ISPs and PC manufacturers who are looking to bundle the product into their services and products," said Jeff Pulver, chairman of FWD Communications. "Our application may eventually be ubiquitous to every Desktop, meaning that if you have a computer you also have pulver.Communicator. I can see tens of millions of people using pulver.Communicator someday -- not only on their computers, but on their PDAs and mobile phones as well."

Since pulver.Communicator was launched in October of this year the application has been downloaded over 50,000 times, adding significantly to the growth of the "always on" community. And since its debut a number of new features have been added to the product, including video instant messaging and greatly enhanced blocking capability.

Communicator Features

Users of pulver.Communicator can communicate via voice, video, or text (Instant Messaging, SMS). Specifically, the application enables users to:

-- Make free long-distance Internet phone calls to millions of VoIP
users worldwide (not only to other Pulver.Communicator users, but
also to subscribers from the more than 60 VoIP service providers with
whom FWD Communications has established partnering agreements), as
well as to a wide variety of Free-Call services in the US, UK,
Holland, Japan, France and numerous other locations.
-- Initiate on-the-fly conference calls with SIP-enabled contacts that
simultaneously support both voice and Instant Messaging.
-- Establish person-to-person IM sessions with other pulver.Communicator
contacts, as well as between contacts on the four most popular IM
networks (AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, and ICQ!)
-- Establish multi-party IM sessions that cross IM service provider
boundaries
-- Place video calls to their SIP-based contacts
-- Establish VoIP connectivity to non-VoIP-enabled contacts through a
call-back service that does not require the installation of special
software
-- Enjoy and expand their personal networking. Through the Shared Buddy
List feature users can view the buddy lists of other subscribers, and
they can share their own (of course, pulver.Communicator can be
easily configured to limit or completely restrict contact information
sharing at the user's discretion).

Getting Started


pulver.Communicator is free, and it can be easily installed on any PC running Windows XP/2000. To download the program, please visit http://www.pulver.com/communicator . pulver.Communicator is also available in Spanish.

About FWD Communications

A division of the Pulver.com group of companies headed by IP Communications entrepreneur and globally renowned thought leader Jeff Pulver, FWD Communications is working to develop innovative IP Communications technologies that change the way in which people communicate.

Reader Contact Information

FWD Communications, 115 Broadhollow Road, Suite 225; Melville, NY 11747; Tel: 631-961-8950, Fax: 631-293-3996, http://www.pulver.com/ .

FWD Communications, the FWD Communications logo, and pulver.Communicator
are trademarks of FWD Communications, Inc.
Other product and trade names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their
respective owners.

Company Contact: Press Contact:
Diana Caporale Alan Weinkrantz
631-961-8986 210-820-3070 ext. 103
dcaporale@pulver.comalan@weinkrantz.com


Source: FWD Communications

CONTACT: Diana Caporale of FWD Communications, +1-631-961-8986, or
dcaporale@pulver.com ; or Alan Weinkrantz, +1-210-820-3070 ext. 103, or
alan@weinkrantz.com , for FWD Communications

Web site: http://www.pulver.com/
http://www.pulver.com/communicator
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