BuzMe.com Starts Internet Call Waiting Buzzing; No Need for a Second Phone Line: Real-Time Internet Call Waiting Available Just in Time for Online Holiday Shopping.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 1999-- Don't miss a single yuletide call while shopping online this holiday season! BuzMe.com(TM) (www.buzme.com), the company giving you communications control, today announces beta launch of real-time Internet call waiting Internet Call Waiting is a technology that allows you to accept incoming calls while connected to a 56k Internet dialup connection. While online, a software application displays users the Caller ID of the incoming call, and gives users the opportunity to screen the incoming (ICW ICW - Interactive CourseWare ). For the overwhelming majority of Internet users with a single phone line, BuzMe service forever solves the problem of missing calls while online, without a costly second phone line. BuzMe is offering free premium features like voicemail and CallerID combined with ICW, enabled by close coupling of voice-based telephony to the Internet. The key differentiator of BuzMe's service is "real-time communications control", which is achieved with a unique small footprint client on users' machines. This client appears in context to a real-time event such as a phone call or message and is used to direct calls as desired by the user: answer, voicemail, reply, forward, reject, etc. Unlike messaging services, which only allow callers to leave messages, BuzMe lets users handle incoming calls as they arrive, in real time, from phone or web. "BuzMe's ability to interact in real-time together with CallerID, address book, and other means to identify the caller gives new communications power to anyone who uses a telephone," said Rick Rasmussen, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BuzMe. "People using the Internet want to stay connected, and BuzMe provides this unique functionality to them as communications control for the new Internet-enabled world." BuzMe's service is currently available, in a beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. , to San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay residents with the area codes 408, 415, 925, 510, 650, 707, and 831. BuzMe will commence a national rollout of services in Q1 2000. About BuzMe.com BuzMe.com, Inc. provides a broad suite of next-generation telecommunications services that give individuals and businesses on the Internet "communications control" in real time -- seamlessly connecting the phone world to the web world. Innovations in service offerings will include outsourced Internet telecommunications services for small business and enterprise. Partners include NEXTLINK (Nasdaq:NXLK), iPrint and NapaNet. Founded in May 1999, BuzMe is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. The company has closed Series A financing and is currently pursuing a second round of funding set to close December 31, 1999. |
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