pulver.Communicator Now Connecting to Skype

pulver.Communicator Now Connecting to Skype

pulver.Communicator Combines Instant Messaging, VoIP, Video, Presence, and Social Networking, and Also Enables Multi-Party IM Chat Across Multiple IM Networks

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer Electronics Show, -- FWD Communications announced today that pulver.Communicator(TM) (http://www.pulver.com/communicator ) -- an innovative new software product that combines the best elements of Internet-based Communications (instant messaging, voice, video, presence, and social networking) in one application -- now interoperates with Skype(TM), the popular VoIP service provider. With pulver.Communicator beta version .94.3, users can import Skype contacts into the application and conduct voice calling and instant messaging with those contacts, as well as engage in multi-party IM chats amongst friends across multiple IM networks.

"I've been a big fan of Skype since its launch and decided to create a link between the two applications," said Jeff Pulver, chairman of FWD Communications. "pulver.Communicator is the first outside application to offer Skype functionality to users of the product, which is quite significant as it opens the door to a multitude of friendships and relationships across the most widely-used Internet networks, (AOL, ICQ, MSN, Skype, and Yahoo!)."

Communicator Features

Users of pulver.Communicator can communicate via voice, video, or text Instant Messaging.

Specifically, the application enables users to:
* Make free calls to millions of VoIP users worldwide (not only to other
pulver.Communicator users, but also to subscribers from the more than
80 VoIP service providers with whom FWD Communications has established
peering 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

* 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

* 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).



Personnel from pulver.com will be conducting demonstrations of pulver.Communicator and its many features at CES, including the new Skype interoperability inside the pulver.com sponsored VoIP Tech Zone on the CES show floor.

Since its official launch in October pulver.Communicator has been downloaded more than 50,000 times.

Getting Started

pulver.Communicator is free, and it can be easily installed on any PC running Windows XP. 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, Inc.

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

Web site: http://www.pulver.com/
http://www.pulver.com/communicator
http://www.cesweb.org/default_flash.asp


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