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2009-05-13 – Mobivox Helps Providers Leave the Race to Zero Behind
Cost savings continue to be the driving force behind VoIP adoption in the communications market and service providers are scrambling to find additional revenue streams and value added differentiators to attract new customers today...
2009-03-06 – Mobivox: App Store Downside is Real
App stores offering lots of downloadable software are a good thing, right? Such marketplaces create application richness and boost the attractiveness of the devices they are intended to work on, while stimulating a bit of incremental revenue and stimulating user upgrades...
2009-03-05 – eComm 2009: VoIP players talk potential profits
Can you make money from VoIP? Panelists from Jajah, Mobivox and Voxeo discussed the current market landscape and where they've been looking to grow their respective businesses. According to Mobivox VP Larry Lisser, "There are novel and compelling opportunities to make money..."
2009-03-04 – VoIP Start-Ups Scramble To Find Niche
While the economic downturn may have slowed large-scale spending on Internet telephony services, start-ups can still turn a profit in this space – provided they know how to think on their feet when it comes to finding customers...
2009-03-03 – MOBIVOX UNVEILS ‘CRM OVER VOICE’
SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2009 – MOBIVOX today announced that it has enriched the capabilities of its powerful voice-activated mobile services platform with CRM over Voice, an innovative set of business growth tools that makes MOBIVOX│PL all the more valuable to its growing community of service provider and online community partners...
2009-03-03 – Mobivox Adds CRM Business Growth Tools
Mobivox, a provider of voice-activated mobile value-added services, has announced an all new mobile services that it claims will help with customer retention and growth for businesses...
2009-03-02 – Mobivox: Barking up the right tree
Tomorrow, Mobivox CEO Peter Diedrich will formally take the wraps off the Mobivox|PL CRM over Voice vision. The company has commissioned analyst Jon Arnold to produce a white paper for them, but the explanation is frankly simpler than the marketing...
2009-03-02 – eComm 2009: Mobivox adds CRM to mobile offering
Mobivox, a voice-activated mobile VoIP company, will be announcing the addition of CRM capabilities to its mobile services platform Tuesday at eComm 2009. The company said the new features will allow operators to offer value-added voice services, and said it has tested the feature extensively in its "living lab" of millions of delivered voice-activated calls and messages...
2009-02-11 – New MOBIVOX customer adds value to voice
Talk-Out, a new breed of low-cost mobile provider making headway in Canada and the United States, has inked an agreement to use Mobivox's voice-activated platform for its business and consumer services. The deal fills out Montreal-based Talk-Out's services...
2009-01-27 – Talk-Out selects MOBIVOX|PL to power market expansion
MOBIVOX today announced that Talk-Out, a business and consumer voice-services company, has chosen the powerful MOBIVOX|PL voice-activated mobile services platform as the engine for its growth and global expansion...
2009-01-21 – Handsfree Texting While Driving
The following news item on San Diego Channel 6 talks about the MOBIVOX solution to Handsfree texting while driving. See video...
2009-01-14 – Of Telcos and VoIP and Communications
For anyone who’s been following my recent conversations, you know that VoIP (dead or alive?) and the Telco paradigm have been central topics lately. There’s a reason for that, and we’ll get to it in this post...
2009-01-05 – Mobivox Helps California Drivers with Voice-to-Text Service
Mobivox, a provider of innovative, voice-activated access to a host of Mobile VoIP services and applications, is helping California drivers with voice-to-text-service...
2008-12-31 – Internet, pour le meilleur et pour le pire
En faisant la revue de 2008, une chose semble claire: la vedette incontestée de l'année qui se termine aujourd'hui n'est pas un personnage isolé, ni même un événement en particulier. Ce n'est rien de moins que le réseau internet, qui s'est immiscé partout, des médias aux télécommunications et à la politique. Pour le meilleur ou pour le pire...
2008-12-30 – Mobivox CEO: Looking Ahead to a Successful 2009
Montreal, Quebec-based Mobivox provides innovative voice-activated access to a host of Mobile VoIP services and applications, including world-wide calling, group communication and voice-to-text services...
2008-12-29 – VoIP in 2008 - "I'm Not Dead"
I’ve been writing my Service Provider Views column for just about a year now, and VoIP has been a constant theme. Mainstream service providers and VoIP have for the most part never gotten along very well, even though at one point VoIP seemed to be the Holy Grail of telephony...
2008-12-18 – Value Added Services Make The Difference: Mobivox
Regular readers of my blog should know very well how fan I am of VoIP used not as a great way to make cheap calls only, but to provide new, innovative value added services to consumers and businesses (something my company has been doing for a few years now with our customer engagement service Sitofono). If the value of the service you provide is crystal clear, your customers are definitely willing to pay for it...
2008-12-11 – The Near Future of VoIP - Peter Diedrich, Mobivox
The next interview brings Peter Diedrich. Peter is the CEO of Voice Services platform provider Mobivox. If that description of Mobivox strikes you as odd, that’s because Mobivox recently announced a change in their strategy - moving from a direct to consumer mobile voip play, to a value added services platform for carriers play...
2008-12-09 – Extends Platform to Mobile and IP Telephony Operators Around the Globe
MOBIVOX today announced that its powerful voice-activated mobile services platform has been enhanced with the addition of French and Spanish language capabilities that carriers, other service providers and online communities can offer their customers immediately...
2008-12-08 – Mobivox’ move in voice CRM
Under CEO Peter Diedrich’s guidance, Mobivox has been slowing transforming itself for some months. Beginning with their announcement of the Mobivox|PL voice services platform in September, the company has revealed an impressive series of customer wins...
2008-12-02 – Mobivox Decides to Work with Service Providers
Mobivox, which has operated as an over-the-top application, is changing its business model. Rather than compete with other over-the-top VoIP providers, Montreal-based Mobivox, which allows people to make free or cheap phone calls, is increasingly interested in partnering with service providers...
2008-11-26 – Getting Closer to the True Numbers on Skype via Mobilis
Yesterday UK web publication TelecomTV put out a post "Skype claims mobiles are involved in a quarter of its calls". But a "correction" comment by the author, Tony Chan, disclaims his basic premise...
2008-11-25 – Mobivox launches iNum follow-me service
Mobivox has leveraged their Voice Activated Mobile Services Platform to provide a new and interesting follow-me type of service. Mobivox subscribers can now get ...
2008-11-11 – Toll-Free 'Country Code' Added to MOBIVOX Service
A new global toll-free "country code" option, included in voice-activated mobile services, will give users a local presence anywhere in the world...
2008-11-11 – MOBIVOX, Voxbone Introduce Global Toll-free calling Exchange
Have friends across the pond? What about south of the boarder? As we all know, calling internationally can be a huge expense and with things being the way they are these days, who has the money to spend to chat with friends when there are mouths to feed—yours especially. With the emerging use of Voice over IP, companies are trying to take advantage of the situation and make calling internationally cheaper...
2008-10-07 – Mobivox to Bring Voice, Voice Activation to Online Address Books
It was only late last month that VoIPplanet first covered Mobivox, a Montréal-based developer and provider of VoIP services—in particular, voice-activated telephony. The news then was that Mobivox was opening its VoIP services platform, MOBIVOX|PL, to communications partners across the Internet and telephony communities ...
2008-10-07 – MOBIVOX and UNYK partner to bring voice-activated mobile services
MOBIVOX, the leading provider of voice-activated mobile VoIP services, today announced a partnership with Unyk, creators of the global Internet-based “intelligent address book.” With its deployment of MOBIVOX|PL, Unyk will offer its rapidly growing, 10-million user base the ability to navigate their address books, place low-cost calls around the world and use other advanced MOBIVOX voice-activated telephony services from any phone...
2008-10-07 – Montreal ISVs tackle mobile address book issues
Mobivox is working with Unyk to upload data from multiple sources including Gmail, LinkedIn and Hotmail through a cloud-based system. Learn more about the beta release ...
2008-10-05 – Bucking the Trend, Mobivox Moves Away From Free
Once blasted for their troubling business model of FREE by yours truly, Mobivox has decided to do away with free services, since, as CEO Peter Diedrich put it, "we want to attract and to retain customers who want to pay for that value." ...
2008-09-24 – Mobivox Brings Voice-Activated VoIP to the Greater Phone Community
What sets Mobivox apart is its sophisticated speech processing technology. When you dial into a local Mobivox access number, VoxGirl answers your call with a friendly "Hi, which person would you like to call?" If you want to call your friend Marie, you just reply "Marie," and VoxGirl (Mobivox's interactive voice response (IVR) technology) completes the call. Others have offered voice-based dialing, but Mobivox's system doesn't have to be trained. It get things right from the get-go. It's even good enough that you can compose and send SMS and e-mail messages—verbally, over the phone...
2008-09-24 – Mobile News Overview – Mobivox, Orange Lycamobile and Go2 Media
MOBIVOX|PL marks a new direction for this well-respected leader of voice enabling technology. MOBIVOX PLATFORM successfully recognizes spoken contact names from uploaded or manually entered contact databases. End users simply have to say out loud who they want to call and Mobivox’s voice-enabled application does the rest. In these days where the dangers of texting and dialing while driving are on the front pages of the news, Mobivox’s voice-enabled solutions, including voice-activated dialing and call control, group calling, and voice-to-SMS, and voice-to-email messaging, are hands-free enablers whose time has come...
2008-09-24 – Analysts Tout Voice Activiated Mobile Platform
"In launching this platform, Mobivox presents a way for carriers to leverage their existing resources," said Jon Arnold, independent VoIP analyst and principal, Jon Arnold & Associates, "without adding any capital expense or—equally important—appreciable user effort. There is no need, for example, for subscribers to 'train' recognizers to their individual voices, as we've seen with other voice-dial roll-outs. Subscribers merely register the names and numbers of their contacts—if the information isn't already uploaded—and speak their names to call them. Compared with all the numbers you'd need to make international calls, in particular, this is a great convenience—as well as a cost saving..."
2008-09-24 – MOBIVOX|PL, the Mobivox developer play
And what does this say about the industry? One more time… minutes are dead. Value-added services are the future...
2008-09-16 – TMC, Jon Arnold: Making Voice a Killer App
We don’t talk about killer apps too much these days, but if you ask me, it should be pretty top of mind for service providers. Voice is a double-edged sword for service providers – most of their businesses are built around it, but with the advent of VoIP, it’s become a commodity, and in many cases, a race to zero. So, what’s a carrier to do? Sure, everyone is shifting to data – Web browsing, video calling, etc., but more than anything, people like to talk. With voice getting cheaper by the day, it becomes harder to see how it can be profitable again...
2008-08-14 - Alec Saunder's Blog: Squawk Box August 14 - Guest Peter Diedrich
Today’s guest was Mobivox CEO Peter Diedrich. Peter was part of the VC funding group that funded Mobivox two and a half years ago, spent 18 months as the CEO of TBayTel in Canada, and then took on the CEO role at Mobivox in June of this year...
2008-08-07 – JAJAH and MOBIVOX Announce Technology Rich Partnership
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - JAJAH, the leading managed services provider in IP-telecommunications, announced today its platform has been selected by MOBIVOX, for whom JAJAH will be supplying call termination and a range of other back-end service management functions...
2008-08-07 JAJAH, MOBIVOX Team on New Voice Services
Concierge will enable JAJAH (News - Alert) customers to use voice commands for hands-free calling and texting, functionality of particular interest to subscribers in states like California with strict “hands-free” laws dictating how mobile devices can be used while driving...
2008-08-14 - Musings of an Internet Marketing Consultant: Catching Up: Mobivox - Launching Voice-Enabled Conversations
About three weeks ago I had the opportunity to interview Mobivox's new CEO Peter Diedrich, a telecom industry veteran who brings both telecom executive and VC-funded startup experience to the table. Mobivox has traditionally provided a low cost worldwide calling service, including free calls to Skype contacts. Key features included (i) no client downloads, (ii) launch a voice call from any telephone handset and (iii) access via over 340 points-of-presence in 40 countries...
2008-06-16 – Joins Board of Directors in Company Providing International Calling from Any Phone
Montreal - MOBIVOX, which makes it possible to connect with family and friends around the world from any phone, today announced the appointment of Peter Diedrich as Chief Executive Officer...