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About Voxeo > Press ReleasesThinmail Corporation Selects Voxeo to Power its Email-to-Phone ServiceOrlando, FL - September 09, 2002 -- Voxeo Corporation, the leader in integrated voice services, today announced that Thinmail Corporation of Massachusetts has selected Voxeo to power its Thinphone™ service, a two-way bridge between email and telephones. Thinphone™ allows people to send email which dials a phone and reads the message or plays an attached audio file, then collects an audio response from the recipient. This combines the power and simplicity of email with the immediacy and ubiquity of the telephone. By enabling its customers to treat any telephone as an email recipient with an address such as 8005551212@thinphone.com, Thinphone™ extends the power of mailing lists to simultaneously call up many people at the same time. Thinphone™ has both personal and business uses. "We are working with Voxeo because we rely on constant innovation, and the company's technical prowess in the field is phenomenal," said Jordan Pollack, Founder of Thinmail. "We need to scale our voice services very quickly, and Voxeo's Voice Centers, much like the data center where we host our web servers, provide the same kind of bulletproof connectivity and reliability for our telephony applications." "Voxeo is pleased to be working with Thinmail to deliver novel services" said Jonathan Taylor, Founder and CEO of Voxeo. "Thinmail's technology, which enables multimedia files to be managed from anywhere, is one of those simple but effective innovations which could have a big impact." The two companies' founders, Jonathan Taylor and Jordan Pollack, met at Esther Dyson's PC Forum. Taylor is a computer/telephony expert who pioneered unified messaging on the Internet and founded Voxeo as his 3rd company at age 28. Pollack is a computer scientist widely known for his work in artificial intelligence and robotics, for which he was named one of MIT Technology Review's TR 10 in 2001.
About Thinmail:Thinmail is a privately held Massachusetts corporation whose unique technology platform radically expands the availability of rich messaging (with files) beyond office workstations, to all thin and wireless devices operating under limited software or expensive bandwidth. Thinmail's services bridge the divide between broadband, dialup, and wireless messaging, as well as voice and fax. Thinmail's services are available direct via a micro-payment system, and to service providers interested in offering their customers a richer messaging experience. For more information, please visit www.thinmail.com.
About VoxeoVoxeo unlocks communications. We loathe the locks that make voice, SMS, instant messaging, Twitter, web chat, and mobile web unified communication and self-service applications difficult to create, manage, analyze, optimize and afford. Every day we work to unlock the neglected value of these communications solutions with open standards, disruptive innovation and a passion for problem solving--fueled by a company-wide obsession with customer success. We do so for more than 100,000 developers, 45,000 companies and half of the Fortune 100 from our headquarters in Orlando, Beijing, Cologne, and London. Visit us or join our conversations on the web at www.voxeo.com, blogs.voxeo.com, or twitter.com/voxeo. |
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