friendfinder.com Launches Free Voice Chat Service for Their 4.5 Million Member Internet Relationship Network.MELVILLE, N.Y. and 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)--Sept. 22, 1999-- pulver.com InternetPartyLine Voice Backoffice(TM) allows websites to build stronger communities by giving away communication services formally available only from telephone companies. pulver.com, Inc (http://pulver.com) and Friend Finder Network, Inc. announced today support for new live voice chat features on the Friend Finder Network web sites. Users can now talk to new found friends without having to give out their telephone numbers. The voice features are enabled by pulver.com's InternetPartyLine Voice Backoffice (TM). The service allows members to talk on the telephone at standard long distance rates or through multimedia computers for free. "Our users embraced voice chat much faster than expected during the beta phase of the service. Voice chat maintains a strong degree of anonymity In anonymity networks (e.g. Tor, Crowds, Tarzan, etc.) it is important to be able to measure quantitatively the guarantee that is given to the system. The degree of anonymity  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. , Friend Finder Network, Inc. The Internet has proven a great place to meet people, but, until now, one could maintain privacy only by limiting communication to text chat and e-mail. "The ability to talk to someone provides an opportunity to get to know someone better without giving up privacy," noted Mr Conru. "Free voice chat represents yet another example of how the Internet changes the traditional telecommunications landscape. Voice chat will expand Internet communication in the same way the telephone did for people previously limited to the telegraph," stated Jeff Pulver Jeff Pulver is the Chairman and founder of pulver.com, and a founder of the VoIP industry. Pulver is the chief writer of what's referred to as "the Pulver Order", which was adopted in 2004 by the Federal Communications Commission as the first FCC ruling regarding internet , CEO, pulver.com. "E-mail has become integral to the communications in just the last ten years. Once people discover the ease with which they can use Internet voice chat, we expect Voice on the Net will become as ubiquitous as e-mail." AT&T (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : T) presently offers a service allowing people to anonymously call others by entering phone numbers via a web page, but service charges a premium over typical long distance rates. Yahoo (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ) offers a free voice chat, but the service does not enable telephone users or facilitate public forums. The new service works like any other conferencing See teleconferencing. service merging multiple telephone calls into one. InternetPartyLine expands the model by adding web-based monitoring of the call and allowing calls to originate from the Internet. "Over half of the computers in use today have the multimedia features required to carry live telephone conversations," noted Daniel Berninger, CEO, InternetPartyLine.com . Friend Finder offers a public voice chat room called The Front Yard accessible to members via www.friendfinder.com. To set up a private conference call, one person registers at www.internetpartyline.com. That person will receive a personal IPL (Initial Program Load) Same as boot. 1. IPL - Information Processing Language. 2. IPL - Internet Public Library. 3. IPL - Initial Program Load. 4. IPL - Initial Program Loader. number and the access numbers that he or she can then distribute to other callers. Callers can dial the access number at any time; there is no need to pre-register the time or number of participants with the service. Amongst themselves, callers just agree up a time for the conference call and dial the access number at the appointed time. About pulver.com Jeff Pulver founded pulver.com at the end of 1994. Some of pulver.com's pursuits include: producing the highly successful Voice on the Net conferences, maintaining a website (www.pulver.com) that is widely heralded as a prime source of information on 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. , and publishing the Pulver Report, which is read by over 35,000 people. About Friend Finder Network Friend Finder Network Inc is the leading online relationship network with more than 4.5 million registered members and including popular web sites, such as; friendfinder.com, sportsfriendfinder.com, seniorfriendfinder.com, adultfriendfinder.com, germanfriendfinder.com. |
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