NEW NET SERVICE OFFERS MASS MARKET WEB TELEPHONY FOR APPLE USERS.Last week at MacWorld Expo, Smith Micro Software Inc. introduced Mac client software for conexs, its mass market Internet communications service that offers real-time Internet chat and telephone capabilities. As an Internet communication service, conexs brings live conversation and chat to PC users via the Internet, making it an inexpensive alternative to traditional telephone services. When the conexs software application is installed on a Mac, users can register with the conexs.com Internet host server for free to establish a user account. Conexs uses an email address See Internet address. as the Internet telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. number and authenticator. Users can create a private "phone book" of other authorized conexs users to contact, much like a "friends and family plan" of people who are in their conexs circle. "Internet telephony has come a long way since its introduction several years ago and our new Mac version takes a giant leap into the new millennium by delivering high quality sound for Internet communications," says William Smith William Smith may refer to: People
Placing a real-time call on conexs is easy, Smith Micro says. Users simply enter the email address of the intended party in the call initiator pop-up box, press the call button, and the call is sent to the conexs.com server where it is processed-much like a regular phone call. The phone component simulates that of a traditional phone. When a call is placed, an incoming ring is sounded like a regular telephone. When the receiving party answers, the two parties are immediately connected for a live voice conversation. Since the call is made over the Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises call is free, whether it is local or long distance. Conexs will be available soon to Mac users through electronic download at http://www.smithmicro.com and is expected to sell for $9.95. A free 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. will be available for download later this month. To run conexs, users need a valid Internet connection, PowerPC G3/G4 processor, 2MB available RAM, Mac OS 8.6 or later and QuickTime 3.0 or later. Future offerings of conexs may include point-to-point real time video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. over the Internet, Smith Micro says. |
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