CallWave Announces 100,000 Registered Users After First Month of Service; Internet Answering Machine Delivers Over 1,000,000 Phone Calls to Internet Users While Online!SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999-- No More Busy Signals CallWave announced today that 100,000 people have downloaded and registered for the free Internet Answering Machine service in just a little over one month following the initial launch on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1999. CallWave's FREE Internet Answering Machine (IAM IAM - Interactive Algebraic Manipulation. Interactive symbolic mathematics for PDP-10. ["IAM, A System for Interactive Algebraic Manipulation", C. Christensen et al, Proc Second Symp Symb Alg Manip, ACM Mar 1971]. ) enables net users with only a single phone line to hear who's calling them while they're online. The Internet Answering Machine allows Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f to feel comfortable leaving their single line Internet connection up and running, without having to worry about missing important phone calls. IAM also eliminates annoying busy signals for callers trying to reach someone who is online. Instead of getting a busy signal, the caller Caller may refer to one of the following:
"The experience of getting a call from an important friend or family member over the Internet Answering Machine is like magic to our users," said David Hofstatter, president of CallWave. "We find that our best sales people are the users themselves. They install it, use it a few times, and then send the small, compact program to others. Internet Answering Machine is a killer app A software application that is exceptionally useful or exciting. Killer apps are innovative and often represent the first of a new breed, and they are extremely successful. For example, in the late 1970s, the VisiCalc spreadsheet was the killer app for the Apple II, providing reason for 40 million home and small business net users across the U.S. and Canada." "I have no computer training whatsoever, and I didn't want to have a second phone line installed," said Glenda Trammel, a new IAM user. "But, I really need a way for my family to reach me while I'm on-line. Since my parents are elderly, I worried about emergencies. CallWave has completely taken away any worries I had. I was so impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: with the ease of downloading downloading - download and installing Internet Answering Machine. Being a novice on the computer, I can tell you I've downloaded other things only to have them disappear forever. I'm telling everyone about this service, I think it is without equal on the Web. I LOVE IT!!!!" "Internet Answering machine is providing a service that is desperately needed," said Bruce Thompson, CallWave's director of marketing. Since launch, we have completed over 1,000,000 calls that, without IAM, would have been missed. Instead of getting a busy signal, a million callers have used our service to reach someone who was online. In a short time, we've made a big impact." The Internet Answering Machine is free and available throughout the U.S. and Canada and is compatible with all browsers and Internet Service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , including AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. . IAM works with the Busy Call Forwarding call forwarding n. A telephone service that enables a customer to have an incoming call automatically rerouted to another extension. Noun 1. feature of the user's phone line to answer calls while the user is online. The free IAM software can be downloaded in less than a minute at http://www.callwave.com and runs on Windows PCs An x86-based computer that runs some version of Windows. See x86 and Windows. . About CallWave.com(TM) CallWave is a new type of Internet-based telephone company with corporate offices in Santa Barbara, Calif. CallWave's mission is to give Internet users the convenience and functionality of extra phone lines in their home or small office, without having to install or pay for additional lines from the phone company. CallWave's Internet Answering Machine is a free alternative to a dedicated modem line, and the FaxWave fax-to-email service is a free alternative to a dedicated fax line. Both services are available to Internet users nationwide, and use open file formats, enabling voice and fax messages to be reviewed on and forwarded to almost any computer. Media inquires should be directed to Bruce Thompson at bet@callwave.com or by telephone to 805/690-4115. Business development inquiries should be directed to Chuck Menzel at busdev@callwave.com or by telephone to 805/690-4122. CallWave, Internet Answering Machine and FaxWave are service marks of CallWave Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. To subscribe or for more information, visit http://www.callwave.com. |
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