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Ring Central: a virtual phone system for a 21st Century workforce
November 17, 2009
The rise of smartphones, VPN connections and even WiFi hot spots changed the way we work. No longer was it necessary to go into the office to catch up on e-mail, do some research or create presentations. However, despite the changing times, businesses still wanted to give the impression that employees are in the office when they're receiving or making business phone calls outside the office.
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Get Your Phone System Out of the Closet
September 21, 2009
We are at the cusp of a significant change in business phone systems. Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses communicate by providing innovative functionality without the complexity and cost of legacy on-premise systems.
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Could the Cloud Kill the PBX?
July 20, 2009
My first job actually working for a tech company was with ROLM Systems, which built the most advanced PBX (business phone system, it stands for private branch exchange) for its time. It was so advanced, we felt we could rename it a CBX (the "C" stood for computer-controlled) and we used computer technology to massively advance the art.
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Put your vacation home to work
April 12, 2009
In recent years, many Atlantans decided to invest in condos or houses at resort locations. I wish I knew how many condos on St. Simons or in the Destin area were purchased by residents of metro Atlanta.
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RingCentral Fax is Your Fax Solution
April 6, 2009
Businesses know Fax by Internet solves financial worries. With an online fax service, not only will your business get a dedicated fax number you just need the ability to get online, and the provider takes care of everything else.
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Nomadic Geeks: Take Your Job and Shove It - Into an Airstream
March 23, 2009
Times are tough, so stop looking for a boring nine-to-five. Use the stalling job market as an excuse to get the hell out of dodge - and into an Airstream, Winnebago, or Fleetwood. With an RV and a few tech hacks, you can create a flexible, self-employed lifestyle on the road. Yesterday's freeloading hippie is today's wireless world traveler. We talked to some nomadic geeks to find out how to trade in your mortgage for flexible hours and an ever-changing, million-dollar view.
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The Best Business Networking Products
March 5, 2009
These eight offerings can boost your business by making your network more secure, increasing its reach and efficiency, and turning it into the backbone of a powerful, cost-saving interoffice phone system.
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Financing, With Strings Attached
January 28, 2009
In this tight lending climate, entrepreneurs may be tempted by an investor’s offer of cash, even if it comes with strings attached.
Vlad Shmunis, the founder of RingCentral, an Internet company that serves small business owners, has an answer to that offer: Think carefully before you accept it.
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How to Start a Business, Under $100
January 19, 2009
If starting a business conjures up visions of spending thousands of dollars on setup costs before you ever open your doors, you're in for a pleasant surprise.
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How to Succeed in Small Business
January 11, 2009
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Best IPhone Apps: Communication and Collaboration
January 6, 2009
If you're using the RingCentral Office hosted business phone service, then this free application is for you. RingCentral Mobile adds one critical feature to your RingCentral account: You can show your business caller ID when making calls from your iPhone.
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Start Your Own Business for $100 or Less
January 5, 2009
If you worry about your kids answering your business calls but you don't want to install a dedicated phone line, consider a service like RingCentral.com to have calls routed to an 800 number with voice mail exclusively for your business starting at $10 a month.
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Is RingCentral Music to the Mobile Professional’s Ears?
December 22, 2008
With so many virtual PBX vendors on the market today, it’s not enough to look at prices and services lists alone. You need to look at dependability. After all, if their service isn’t reliable it can cause clients to have a poor impression of your business. So how does RingCentral rate?
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Opportunity in a Down Economy
December 17, 2008
RingCentral recently surveyed its small business customers and found that many are rapidly cutting down overhead cost to work more efficiently during tight economic times. They found:...
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Businesses Move To Voice-Over-IP
December 10, 2008
Winner: RingCentral Digital Line Microsoft's Unified Communications offers the ability to integrate a lot of features into existing Office software, including Web conferencing. Microsoft's positioning seems a little murky--they offer VoIP servers and software that will be interoperable with a company's existing PBX system to customers who don't want to replace robust hardware-based PBX services but want to extend those systems' capabilities.
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Tech Future: Change and Risk from Downturn
November 5, 2008
The current political climate is awash with the concept of change, with both parties in the U.S. having running on that platform (one, clearly, more successfully than the other). Typically people don't like change, but when you scare the crap out of them – as will be done as the economic collapse removes one in ten to one of five from comfortable jobs – you can get change to happen very quickly.
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How to Start an Online Business for $100
November 5, 2008
You can have a live answering service (similar to the one your doctor uses) for $20 a month--or less, if you have minimal incoming calls. Another option is to do it virtually: For about $10 a month, you can get an 800-number-based system such as RingCentral that answers calls with an automated greeting, routing calls to you (or other employees or contractors) or to voice mail depending on button presses.
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Selling Communications in a Recession
November 3, 2008
The company manages all of a customer’s phone, mobile, fax and email communications with a single phone number and an online control center. It combines a toll-free or local number with advanced call management, PBX, voice mail and Internet fax, enabling customers to set up multiple extensions with voice mail, automatically screen, forward and place calls, take voice mail, send and receive faxes, and receive message alerts.
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RingCentral Reports Record Sales in Recent Weeks
November 3, 2008
The company manages all of a customer’s phone, mobile, fax and email communications with a single phone number and an online control center. It combines a toll-free or local number with advanced call management, PBX, voice mail and Internet fax, enabling customers to set up multiple extensions with voice mail, automatically screen, forward and place calls, take voice mail, send and receive faxes, and receive message alerts.
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Feeling economic pain? You're not alone
November 3, 2008
RingCentral, the hosted business phone service, confirmed today that we small businesses are rapidly cutting overhead costs to adjust to the new reality of a slowing economy. Their survey, completed by small business owners and entrepreneurs across the U.S., reveals that the majority of small businesses (75 percent) have been negatively impacted by the current economy. In response, the majority of small businesses (72 percent) are reducing overhead cost to work more efficiently during tight economic times.
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Hosted telecom services let companies cut overhead
November 3, 2008
One way many small businesses seem to be cutting costs during the economic crisis is to eliminate physical office space in favor of virtual offices and hosted telecom services, concludes Ring Central, which surveyed its customers recently. Businesses also are considering eliminating their land lines, Ring Central says. Telephony Online.
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Hosted telecom services see uptick as SMBs cut costs
November 3, 2008
“We had a record number of new customers come to Ring Central in the last four weeks – it’s the highest four-week number we’ve ever had,” Shah said. “Customers are coming from every part of the country and from all kinds of industries – real estate, financial, retail. Because of the new business we were seeing, we wanted to know what was in the minds of our customers and what was happening out there across the country among small businesses. In the process, we collected a lot of good data.”.
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SMBs Buy Better Communications To Combat Slowdown
October 31, 2008
In an economic slowdown, companies need to focus now, more than ever on their communications solutions. Today's technologies can make your company more efficient, save you money directly on communications costs as well as travel and even real estate.
Recently I had a chance to speak with Praful Shah, VP of Strategy from RingCentral, a company providing hosted communications services and he told me the last four weeks have seen business increase dramatically.
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RingCentral: Small Businesses Responding to Economic Turmoil by Cutting Overhead Expenses
October 31, 2008
Flexibility is a keyword among small businesses today, RingCentral’s survey results indicated. This includes switching to communications services, like RingCentral’s hosted phone and fax service, that enable employees to work from home or other remote locations. The trend toward adopting flexible solutions is a positive development for those that provide such services. RingCentral, for one, has experienced a record rate of customer growth in the past month.
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Tough Economy Means More Business For RingCentral
October 31, 2008
In a recent survey conducted by RingCentral of 250 small business customers, 72 percent of them are reducing their overhead costs by transferring their phones to virtual phone services. The survey also noted that customers are using the virtual phone services as virtual centralized offices and to maintain a professional presence. One way to do this with one-person businesses is to set up extensions for multiple uses such as sales and customer service. Small businesses with multiple employees are finding that it's cheaper to maintain a centralized presence even when they are work-from-home employees.
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Technology lets us work more, smarter
October 26, 2008
RingCentral is another Internet telephone service, but it can do some remarkable things that are very valuable to a real estate professional who wants to stay in touch. The Web site is RingCentral.com.
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Will Economy Lead VoIP Back to its Money-Saving Basics?
October 23, 2008
When VoIP first exited the lab and was gaining some traction among business, the big selling point was that it saved money over legacy systems. But the attraction was transitory, as the old-line telcos began meeting the competition by cutting their inflated prices to match the upstarts. Service providers and carriers soon found that the real long-term pitch was that VoIP offered services that either enabled people to do things they couldn’t do before or allowed them to do so far more easily.
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15 Ways to Use VoIP to Save Money During the Downturn
October 22, 2008
RingCentral addresses your concerns by providing the flexibility and features of hosted IP PBX service while delivering the actual calls to your premises over conventional phone line. If and when you feel comfortable with Internet telephony, you can move to full-fledged VoIP through the company's outbound Digitalline service for $4.99 per line and up. It's a pretty low-risk way to start cutting costs with VoIP.
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RingCentral Recognized for Delivering Cloud Computing Phone and Fax Service to SMBs
October 22, 2008
Technology Marketing Corporation and INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine have awarded RingCentral a 2008 Excellence Award for delivering cloud computing business phone and fax service to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
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Can Elance Make You Money?
October 17, 2008
Elance is now simplifying the experience of interviewing and hiring freelance candidates by providing a click to call service through RingCentral business phone service. ELance struck a partnership with RingCentral to provide the core functionality to manage inbound phone calls, chats, and live interviews.
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Interview with RingCentral
October 10, 2008
Many startup companies in the “garage operation” stage want to appear larger and more professional when interacting with customers by phone, but they do not have the money to invest in the hardware required for a conventional PBX phone system. Other startups have distributed operations, with employees working on cell phones from home or on the road, and want to enable effective communication between employees and with customers. RingCentral addresses these needs by providing a virtual PBX phone system, which includes multiple extensions, toll free numbers, automated greetings with menu trees, dial-by-name directories, and call and voicemail forwarding.
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Tech Talk: Marshmallow Maker Unifies Communications
October 3, 2008
A gourmet marshmallow company wanted to appear to respond to customer contacts immediately and found that unified communications gave it more ability to communicate given multiple employees and locations.
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Who is Using Software-as-a-Service?
September 24, 2008
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has been touted as the answer to an I.T. manager's software administration nightmare. Simply defined, SaaS is the replacement Virus Removal off-the-shelf business software to a pay-as-you-go subscription model for the use of software.
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Tele-Commuting Trend Taking Off for SMBs
September 24, 2008
One of the fast-growing trends in small business these days is teleworking - employees working from home or away from the company’s main office. Surging gas prices driving up the already high cost of commuting and growing environmental concerns are just the most recent and headline-grabbing inducements that make telework increasingly attractive to both employers and employees.
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How to: Fax without a fax machine
September 15, 2008
Sometimes, you need to send or receive a fax. Don't have access to a fax machine? Here are three sites to help.
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RingCentral Selected as Enderle Group's Product of the Week
September 8, 2008
Speaking of lopsided competition, small businesses often have trouble competing with larger companies because they lack access to similar resources. Hosting companies and a variety of services can often help close that gap, and one I've liked for a while is RingCentral.
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VoIP Facilitates Telecommuting, Eases Economic Pressures
September 4, 2008
If you're feeling the pinch of higher gas prices and the overall economic slowdown, you're by no means alone. But in the face of adversity, small businesses are doing what they've always done: getting creative. RingCentral, an 'Internet phone service for small business,' recently conducted an online survey of its customers to find out how they survive and succeed during tough times.
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RingCentral: Selling VoIP to SMBs Means Solving Real-world Business Problems
September 4, 2008
RingCentral, which offers a hosted business phone service using IP telephony technology, thinks it has cracked the code. Later this month at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2008 in L.A., the company's vice president of business development, Jay Blazensky, will share with attendees what RingCentral has learned about selling VoIP to small businesses, during the "Making the Business Case for VoIP in the SMB" session on Sept. 18 from 1:00-1:45 p.m.
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Top 5 Web App Combos for Running an Online Business
September 3, 2008
When it comes to freelancing and working on the web, few things are more important than the online applications that make it all possible. From project management, to invoicing, to contact management, and more - each of these apps play a critical role in running an online or freelance business.
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Market Your Home-Based Business With StartupNation Contest
August 27, 2008
I found out about the competition from one of my own home-based business service providers, RingCentral. While there's no material prize for winning, the free advertising from a good ranking could be worth plenty.
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Market Your Home-Based Business With StartupNation Contest
August 27, 2008
If you run your own company out of your home, an annual contest can provide valuable exposure
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Economic Pressure Drives Telecommuting Trend
August 15, 2008
RingCentral, a self-described Internet phone service for small business, recently conducted an online survey of its customers to find out how they survive and succeed during tough times.
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RingCentral Hosted Business Phone Service Enhances Law Communications
August 12, 2008
RingCentral offers a hosted business phone service that allows businesses to connect with partners, employees, clients and prospects.
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RingCentral Partners with Concentric, Expands Reach for its Hosted Phone and Fax System
August 11, 2008
Concentric provides a variety of hosted solutions, including business e-mail, corporate domain management, Web site hosting, and Microsoft Hosted Exchange. By partnering with RingCentral, the company’s portfolio is being expanded to include phone and Internet fax service as well.
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Economic Pressure Drives Telecommuting Trend
August 11, 2008
RingCentral, a self-described Internet phone service for small business, recently conducted an online survey of its customers to find out how they survive and succeed during tough times.
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RingCentral Dials In Concentric Deal
August 11, 2008
According to the agreement announced Monday, concentric customers using its web site hosting, business email, Microsoft Hosted Exchange, corporate domain management and perimeter email protection will be able to add RingCentral's services to their businesses immediately. Also, existing customers that sign up for the RingCentral service before the end of August will get the first thirty days of the new service free.
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Economic Pressure Drives Telecommuting Trend
August 11, 2008
If you're feeling the pinch of higher gas prices and the overall economic slowdown, you're by no means alone. But in the face of adversity, small businesses are doing what they've always done: getting creative. RingCentral, a self-described Internet phone service for small business, recently conducted an online survey of its customers to find out how they survive and succeed during tough times.
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RingCentral Delivers Hosted Phone System to Concentric Customers
August 11, 2008
RingCentral announced it has partnered with Concentric, a business unit of XO Communications(XOHO) that provides hosted applications, including Web site hosting, business e-mail, Microsoft Hosted Exchange, corporate domain management and perimeter e-mail protection. Now, Concentric customers, especially those with distributed or mobile employees, can take advantage of RingCentral's hosted business phone system and Internet fax to enhance their business communications.
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New improved PBXCompare.com from Zilker Ventures
August 8, 2008
Zilker Ventures has announced the expansion and improvement of their PBXCompare.com, a Web site that allows its customers to see system providers virtually, in the order of their affordability, popularity and corporate system plans. The new improved site features an expanded Reviews Page and Features Grid.
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Cloud Computing, Microsoft's Midori, and the End of Windows
August 2, 2008
For my part, I already use Internet-based apps such as Google Docs, RingCentral and Zoho Invoices for most of my day-to-day work, and I love the freedom they afford me. I think we're on the cusp of a major paradigm shift with cloud computing, and I'm eager to see how it plays out.
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Downsizings Lead to More Startups
July 27, 2008
I've become familiar with the folks over at RingCentral, who provide a virtual phone system solution for small businesses. We use RingCentral for our toll-free "vanity" number at StartupNation, for example.
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Virtual Workpace Options
July 15, 2008
Americans are making big changes due to the fuel price runup. A new survey shows small business owners are changing how they work, with many cutting back on office space and working virtually, says Praful Shah, vice-president for strategy at RingCentral
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Urban Real Estate Chooses RingCentral for Phone Needs
July 7, 2008
Privately held-Urban Real Estate, in Chicago, has replaced their traditional AT&T communications systems with RingCentral, an on-line and on-demand internet based system. Urban Real Estate helps business owners, individuals, and investors buy, sell, and manage real estate in the downtown Chicago area.
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Small Biz Hiring Up, Midsize Biz Down
July 3, 2008
With the specter of recession clouding the outlook for businesses and personal finance, risk aversion is understandably on the upswing. In fact, according to a gamut of sources, a bad economy is a good time to consider launching a new business. A hint of statistical validation for this was included in the recent RingCentral survey findings that recent layoffs have sparked an increase in start-ups (22% of participants started a business after getting a pink slip).
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As Gas Goe$ Up, Use Technology To Communicate
July 3, 2008
RingCentral recently revealed survey results which show that the majority of small businesses (59 percent) are cutting overhead costs or otherwise changing business practices in response to the economic downturn and rising energy costs while remaining productive. In addition, in response to job losses, some former employees have become employers by starting their own small businesses.
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RingCentral Survey Reveals Small Business Interest in Telecommuting
June 30, 2008
The majority of small businesses (59 percent) are cutting overhead costs or otherwise changing business practices in response to the economic downturn and rising energy costs, according to the results of a new survey by RingCentral. Significantly, one of the key strategies for dealing with these challenges is telecommuting.
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Downsized Into Entrepreneurship, the 21st Century Way
June 30, 2008
In a recent survey by RingCentral, twenty-two (22%) of small business owners said they started a business after being downsized.
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RingCentral Survey: Rising Costs Drive Small Businesses to Get Creative with Telecommuting, Other Solutions
June 30, 2008
The economy of today, filled with innovative businesses that deliver products and solutions that we use every day, is the result of small businesses, led by entrepreneurs with big ideas. These companies will continue to be a key sector of the economy, whether they grow in individual size or not.
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Why A 'Distributed Workforce' Can Save SMBs Money
June 27, 2008
Can small-business owners beat the high cost of energy coupled with an economic downturn? A new survey from hosted business-phone-system provider RingCentral says "yes." Calif.-based RingCentral offers core small-business phone services. Its poll, completed online by U.S. small-business owners and...
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SIPphone Makes The Call To Jajah
June 26, 2008
Instead, I have opted for RingCentral, which recently introduced a Mac OS X soft client (in addition to a PC version) and it is doing a might fine job for me. I was highly skeptical of RingCentral in the past but they have won me over with their high quality service. (Full review, pending!)
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Lean, Mean Machines: Tech for the SMB
June 26, 2008
Software can be no less costly than hardware when SMB budget levels are stretched thin. SMB entrepreneurs often report favoring multipurpose software suites over separate packages to provide their business computing needs.
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RingCentral Phone System a Boon to Urban Real Estate
June 12, 2008
RingCentral provides an Internet phone system for small business and offers full-access to core small business phone services and helps improve productivity for more than 50,000 customers worldwide. Urban Real Estate works with individuals and corporate investors that buy real estate in the downtown Chicago area.
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RingCentral helps California Chiropractor Save Time and Money
June 9, 2008
One solution companies, even small ones, can utilize to avoid junk faxes is the fax portion of RingCentral Online, a suite of on-demand, Web-based communications services. RingCentral Fax combines the advantages of faxing with the power of online communications, and includes capabilities to easily block junk faxes as well.
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RingCentral On Call for Santa Monica Chiropractor
May 29, 2008
The company’s officials explained that he can direct a call to voicemail but can listen live as the caller leaves a message, and if the call is urgent, he can pick it up immediately.
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One Ringy Dingy... When Vonage Isn't Enough
May 19, 2008
Nonprofits are increasingly looking to cut their phone budgets by turning to VoIP (voice over Internet protocol). These services, provided by companies such as Vonage, cable companies, and even traditional phone companies, are usually much more affordable than traditional phone services. But, things get complicated when you need more than a single number, or the ability to add services that traditionally called for an in-house PBX phone system.
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RingCentral Demo
May 11, 2008
Easy, secure, affordable, and convenient: RingCentral Internet Fax is a complete fax service for your business. You’ll get a toll free or local fax number with which you can receive faxes in your email inbox as well as in your own Web-based RingCentral account.
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Click Here and Save Big
May 5, 2008
Another hefty expense and technician time-suck is the company phone system. Instead of plunking down several thousand dollars for an internal phone system -- also known as a private branch exchange, or PBX -- some small and midsize companies are opting for so-called virtual PBX services.
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How Telephone Service Helps a Wedding Planning Business. Ideas For Your Business
May 4, 2008
Virtual phone service, Ring Central recently touted one of its customers Matthew Allen Weddings and Events which recently used Ring Central and has soon their business boost.
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Red Herring 2008 Finalists
May 1, 2008
For 10 years, Red Herring's editorial team has diligently surveyed entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers have regarded the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation.
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Get Business VoIP and Sleep the Night
April 2, 2008
The service offers features that go far beyond adding a second line for business with your current phone company, as well as advanced business-specific abilities you won't generally find with home VoIP offerings.
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Message Pending: Unified Communications
April 2008
Unified communications can help funnel voice, e-mail, fax, and other communications from customers into one channel. It can help give small businesses an edge by helping customers get the answers they need.
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Hosted VoIP: Hope or Hype?
March 28, 2008
Once the great hope for re-energizing telecom sales, hosted VoIP has not lived up to adoption expectations thanks in no small part to immature technology, poor service delivery, techno-centric sales approaches and end-user misconceptions.
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BT Partners on Software-Based SMB Phone System
March 12, 2008
Customers can either use a real telephone to answer or make calls or their PC through RingCentral's "Desktop Call Controller." That interface lets users see call logs and launch calls with a single click by a contact's name, among other functions.
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BT Readies VoIP for Small Business
March 12, 2008
RingCentral's software is designed to let small businesses set up their own phone system with a professional feel without needing to make significant investments in hardware. The software works with mobile, landline and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls.
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BT Taps RingCentral for Hosted Phones
March 11, 2008
In an unusual deal, BT, the largest carrier in the United Kingdom, and RingCentral, a hosted voice service, on Tuesday introduced a web-based phone system for small businesses in the U.K.
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BT RingCentral increases phone flexibility for small businesses
March 11, 2008
Small businesses in the UK can now present a more professional image to customers and partners by intelligently managing their phone, mobile, and fax communications with the launch of BT RingCentral.
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RingCentral Dials Up $12 Million
March 6, 2008
RingCentral, a start-up that allows small businesses to unify and manage their phone, mobile, fax and e-mail communications, said it had raised $12 million more in a second round of financing.
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Internet Phone Service Gets Plush
March 5, 2008
Justin Leavens manages a gourmet-marshmallow company out of his house in Sherman Oaks, Calif. But his high-end phone system makes customers think he is toiling in a big office with scores of employees.
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RingCentral Gets $12 Million More To Help You Look Like A Bigger Company
March 4, 2008
Silicon Valley based RingCentral offers businesses a virtual telephone system (they say “Sound more professional, look like a bigger company”). It’s sort of a super-Vonage, but targeted to businesses first.
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RingCentral raises $12M more for centralized communications
March 4, 2008
RingCentral, a Redwood City, Calif., company that allows small businesses to unify and manage their phone, mobile, fax and email communications, said it has raised $12 million more in a second round of financing.
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Are your customers getting through or giving up?
March 4, 2008
RingCentral.com is a very reliable and inexpensive provider of toll-free service. All configurations are done on an a la carte basis via a user-friendly Web site and changes happen immediately.
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RingCentral Rings Up $12 Million
March 4, 2008
RingCentral, a Redwood City, Calif.-based VoIP company, has raised $12 million in Series B funding, doubling the amount it raised in its Series A round.
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RingCentral - The Ultimate Business Productivity Tool
March 4, 2008
RingCentral is great at business communications - in particular small business communications. As a small business owner, you can sign up for the service and get a toll free number with extensions.
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RingCentral Redials $12M for Hosted Voice
March 4, 2008
Hosted voice service firm RingCentral on Tuesday said it got $12 million in a second funding round led by DAG Ventures. The new investment comes six months after the Redwood City, California-based firm announced an identical $12 million first funding round which was led by Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures.
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Smart Talk at Work and Home
January 24, 2008
RingCentral is a surprisingly sophisticated but easy-to-use Web-managed smart PBX service with attractive per-user pricing. Getting acceptable call quality, however, requires preconfigured SIP phones or configuring SIP handsets yourself.
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Combining Your Office and Cellular Phones: Easy and Efficient
January 23, 2008
A growing number of start-ups and small businesses are relying almost exclusively on cellular phones in lieu of a traditional office phone system and the complicated infrastructure that goes with it.
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2008 Awards: The Absolute Best in Small Business
January 22, 2008
Announced last fall, RingCentral's DigitalLine VoIP allows the company's customers to place and receive calls via landline, mobile and VoIP as needed. And like TalkSwitch it excels at helping small operations looks much larger over the phone.
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Microsoft To Startups: Join Us
January 22, 2008
Tuesday's announcement means Microsoft is entering the second phase of its Startup Accelerator Program, adding smaller companies such as Lijit, Me.dium, Xobni, Clarizen, and RingCentral to the 20 existing partners such as Accellos, iBloks, Tutor.com, Kiptronic, Spot Runner, video advertising startup YuMe.
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Top Reasons to Throw Out Your Fax Machine But Keep On Faxing
January 16, 2008
For many companies, especially small ones, faxing remains the best option for certain types of business transactions. Yet faxing and fax machines no longer are inevitably tied together. Today, thanks to online services like RingCentral Fax, you can get rid of the fax machine but keep right on sending and receiving faxes.
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RingCentral DigitalLine VoIP Service Receives PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award
January 09, 2008
The other two VoIP contenders I've looked at recently (Microsoft Response Point and the Avaya Quick Edition/Netgear Voice over IP (VoIP) Solution), require an on-site hardware/software combination. RingCentral takes a different approach, supplying its IP-capable PBX as a service delivered entirely over the Internet: no on-site PBX, no need for a phone consultant. Just supply phones and Web connections and you're all set. It's a good idea, and one that RingCentral implements well.
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RingCentral Wins Internet Telephony Magazine's 2007 Product of the Year Award
January 08, 2008
RingCentral has won Technology Marketing Corporation's INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine 2007 Product of the Year Award for the third consecutive year. The award recognizes RingCentral’s exceptional value to small businesses and its ongoing technology innovation.
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RingCentral DigitalLine VoIP Service: Editor's Choice
January 07, 2008
RingCentral is a surprisingly sophisticated but easy-to-use Web-managed smart PBX service with attractive per-user pricing. Getting acceptable call quality, however, requires preconfigured SIP phones or configuring SIP handsets yourself.
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Trends to Watch for 2008
January 07, 2008
Behind the doom-and-gloom headlines, the VoIP industry has been innovating like crazy. Much of the evidence suggests that the innovation will continue in 2008, but other forces are shaping the industry, too.
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Looking Back at Changes to the Fax Industry in 2007
December 26, 2007
Unlike other VoIP services, RingCentral DigitalLine does not require small businesses to rely solely on VoIP. As part of every basic service plan, DigitalLine enables customers to receive calls over the Internet at no additional cost.
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RingCentral Survey Finds Fax is Very Important to Small Businesses
December 20, 2007
Online fax service provider RingCentral announced this week the results of a U.S. customer survey looking at spending trends for communications services and related technology. The company also asked small business owners and entrepreneurs to rate the RingCentral Online suite of communications services.
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5 Unexpected Technology Predictions For SMBs in 2008
December 20, 2007
IT spending in 2008 will be modest, good (for SMBs, anyway), or grim. The outlook is just as murky for small businesses. A new RingCentral Customer Survey says small businesses will increase technology spending in 2008 with a focus on PCs and communications services.
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RingCentral customers expect to keep spending
December 19, 2007
RingCentral’s customers gave the virtual phone system vendor an early holiday present when they told an online survey that economic concerns won’t slow their telecom spending in 2008.
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Despite Concerns Over the Economy Small Businesses Expect to Increase Technology Spending in 2008
December 18, 2007
For vendors focused on the small business space, the good news, according to a customer survey conducted by hosted VoIP provider RingCentral between November 27 and December 13, is that small businesses are prepared to increase their technology investment in the coming year, particularly with regard to PCs and communications services.
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Small Businesses Expect to Increase Technology Spending in 2008
December 18, 2007
Small businesses will increase technology spending in 2008 with a focus on PCs and communications services according to the results of a customer survey conducted by RingCentral.
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Cell Phones Top Landlines In Small Business Poll
December 18, 2007
Small businesses now rely on mobile phones more than they do on landlines, according to a survey released today by RingCentral, a specialist in providing "virtual PBX" service to the small business and professional market.
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The Top 25 VoIP Innovations of 2007
December 17, 2007
Behind all of the headlines about patent suits and service-provider collapses, the VoIP business remained full of innovation in 2007. Almost every aspect of the industry, from hardware to software to services, saw a variety of large and small breakthroughs from new and established players.
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TalkSwitch's Jan Scheeren: Veteran of Small Business Telephony. Plus: Update on Ring Central
December 07, 2007
Both TalkSwitch and Ring Central sell different solutions to the same issue - better telephone communications... Ring Central recently received $12 million in funding and has 40,000 customers as of November 2007, about 10,000 more than TalkSwith. This compares to 20,000 customers Ringe Central had one year ago.
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VoIP in Unusual Places
December 06, 2007
VoIP was originally conceived of as an inexpensive way for individuals to call one another, but IP-based voice applications are increasingly turning up in business settings as well.
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Merchants Ring Up the Sales This Holiday Season With RingCentral Virtual Fax and Phone Service
December 05, 2007
Online merchants looking for a way to maximize their profits this holiday season will want to check out a special offer from virtual phone system provider RingCentral. Through the end of 2007, the company is offering double sign-on bonus minutes for new customers.
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InfoWorld: RingCentral online telephone service makes small businesses sound like enterprises
November 28, 2007
The first contact – and impression – of your organization is often by phone. To make clients and prospects feel welcome, enterprises typically use expensive Private Branch Exchange (PBX) systems that route calls efficiently and offer fancy features such as au-tomated directory assistance. With RingCentral, an affordable virtual phone system, pro-fessionals and small businesses can sound like a Fortune 500 organization.
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Podcast: Interview with GiveAGiftBasket.com CEO Tracy Dixon
November 18, 2007
Tracy talks with AuctionBytes about the importance of creating a professional presence to satisfy the corporate clients that use her services, and how telecommunications is a big part of that strategy.
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How To Use Your Telephone to Boost Sales this Holiday Season
November 18, 2007
Your telephone is a powerful tool EVERY day in your business. But for some businesses, especially retailers, the telephone gets an extra work out during the holiday season.
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Hosted VoIP service unifies communications for SMBs
October 17, 2007
“Called DigitalLine, the new VoIP service integrates into RingCentral's hosted phone and fax service, letting SMBs make and receive VoIP calls over broadband. It offers IP PBX functionality in a hosted environment.”
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RingCentral Adds VoIP to Virtual PBX
October 17, 2007
“RingCentral, Inc. recently launched its DigitalLine VoIP service as an enhancement to its virtual phone system for small businesses. DigitalLine is integrated directly into the full RingCentral system, allowing the company's customers to place and receive calls via landline, mobile and VoIP as needed—and to control those calls using RingCentral's suite of services.”
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RingCentral Adds Outbound VoIP Capability to Virtual Phone System
October 10, 2007
“DigitalLine is seamlessly integrated into RingCentral’s hosted phone and fax service, allowing customers to place and receive calls using a broadband Internet connection. The service offers small businesses a complete hosted PBX solution that mixes traditional landline, mobile and VoIP communications to place and receive calls.”
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Small Business Be Large (or at least appear large...)
October 10, 2007
“RingCentral targets small businesses looking to have the features of a PBX or key system without having to buy, install and maintain such a system themselves. The new DigitalLine VOIP capability extends the virtual service to allow incoming calls to be answered using VOIP on a user’s computer and existing broadband link.”
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New Skype Phone Could Usher In Mobile VoIP Era
October 10, 2007
“…With 3G services in the U.S. less uniform and ubiquitous than in the U.K. and Asia, unified communication services like RingCentral and newish technologies like Femtocells, which boost home cellular reception and offer VoIP access over cell accounts when at home, could prove popular for centralizing cheap communications on the mobile phone….”
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Goodbye GrandCentral. Hello RingCentral
October 10, 2007
“With DigitalLine, RingCentral delivers a complete hosted PBX solution for small businesses. RingCentral gives customers the ability to use a mix of traditional land line, mobile and VoIP communications to place and receive calls. With RingCentral, small businesses and mobile professionals can interact with customers more professionally, using all the features of a big company phone system at a fraction of the cost and all under a single phone bill.”
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RingCentral manages your calls, saves money with VoIP
October 10, 2007
“While GrandCentral may have been stealing headlines lately, there’s another suffix-sharing phone call management service called RingCentral that can make small businesses look and function like larger ones with some pretty neat telephonic tomfoolery. The service has been around since early 2004, and today is introducing a slew of VoIP plans called DigitalLine that give users the option to use VoIP instead of, or on top of their existing landlines.”
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RingCentral Gives Small Businesses a Taste of VoIP
October 10, 2007
“Small businesses that are investigating whether switching to a voice over IP (VoIP) phone system makes sense for them may want to check out the latest offering from RingCentral, the provider of virtual hosted phone solutions. With the new DigitalLine offering launched yesterday, the Silicon Valley company is allowing its customers to try inbound VoIP for free, and to start placing outbound calls over VoIP for $5 per month, all without buying any new hardware or upgrading their Internet connection.”
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RingCentral Adds VOIP Calling to Hosted PBX Service
October 9, 2007
“RingCentral targets small businesses looking to have the features of a PBX or key system without having to buy, install and maintain such a system themselves. The new DigitalLine VOIP capability extends the virtual service to allow incoming calls to be answered using VOIP on a user's computer and existing broadband link.”
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RingCentral Adds Outbound VoIP Capability to Virtual Phone System
October 9, 2007
“With DigitalLine, RingCentral delivers a complete hosted PBX solution for small businesses. RingCentral gives customers the ability to use a mix of traditional land line, mobile and VoIP communications to place and receive calls. With RingCentral, small businesses and mobile professionals can interact with customers more professionally, using all the features of a big company phone system at a fraction of the cost and all under a single phone bill.”
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RingCentral Makes Internet VoIP Less Risky
October 9, 2007
RingCentral DigitalLine “…lets small companies move into VoIP one step at a time. They can start by getting the features and functions that make them look like large companies — details like an auto attendant, call screening, dial by name and music on hold. If and when they feel comfortable, they can add cost-saving Internet telephony as well. In short, companies don't have to leap into the unknown world of Internet voice all at once.”
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RingCentral Adds VoIP to Virtual PBX
October 9, 2007
“DigitaLine is fully integrated with the RingCentral service, enabling users to view missed calls, check voicemail, or send faxes over IP—managing those VoIP calls alongside mobile and landline calls. And, says Jay Blazensky, RingCentral's vice president of business development, one key strength of DigitalLine is that it allows a small company to try out VoIP using the included softphone application before they commit to implementing it fully for their entire business.”
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I test out RingCentral’s new DigitalLine VoIP service
October 9, 2007
“Once you take RingCentral and its new DigitalLine feature out for a spin, you’ll be impressed about how easy they are to run.”
Russell Shaw, ZDNet
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RingCentral adds VoIP
October 9, 2007
“RingCentral, with a business model based on making small businesses look big—at least from a telecommunications perspective—has added a VoIP service to its virtual phone system. Called DigitalLine, the added feature lets customers use a mix of land line, mobile and now VoIP to both place and receive phone calls.”
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RingCentral VoIP
October 9, 2007
“If you are a small business the new RingCentral Digital Line software coupled with existing RingCentral service will make your company look much bigger than you ever thought possible. It is a good service and can work with SIP-based IP phones as well.”
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RingCentral Adds Outbound VoIP Capability to Virtual Phone System
October 9, 2007
“My team and I are very impressed with RingCentral and the new DigitalLine option. Because our employees often work remotely, we rely on RingCentral to keep us connected and give our company a unified presence,” said Tom Sagi of First Data Independent Sales, a provider of electronic payment systems. “We have saved thousands of dollars by not using a traditional PBX, and now with DigitalLine, we’re saving even more money — without the need to completely switch our business over to VoIP.”
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RingCentral Makes Very Small Businesses Look Very Big
September 26, 2007
RingCentral Inc. … has just received $12 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures. RingCentral offers all kinds of Web-based capabilities and functions that only VoIP switching makes possible. RingCentral also has lots of features to make your company look like a big business with a name-brand IP PBX.
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RingCentral Fax on a Wireless Laptop Computer Frees Users to Work, Play More
September 20, 2007
The concept of “mobility” gets a lot of press these days. Often, the term is used to refer to cell phones and other handheld devices that come with applications for checking e-mail, sending text messages, conducting instant message (IM) sessions and surfing the Web. With so much focus on handheld devices, sometimes people forget that laptop computers equipped with wireless capabilities also offer the freedoms and benefits of mobility.
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Decoupling VoIP brings significant advantages
August 17, 2007
RingCentral has a host of telephony services aimed at very small businesses. RingCentral can provision a small business with a toll-free or vanity number, any number of extensions radiating from that number, an IVR (basically the system where you punch “1” for sales, “2” for marketing), voice mail, call forwarding rules including simultaneous or synchronous ringing, click-to-call, fax receipt and transmission, call records etc.
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HouseValues Taps RingCentral For Click-To-Call
May 31, 2007
RingCentral said the partnership will grant HouseValues' customers with an on-demand telecommunications service, including a Web feature that enables site visitors to chat with a live company representative at the click of a button.
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VoIP Service Provider RingCentral Delivers Click-to-Call Technology to Real Estate Agents
May 30, 2007
The company today announced a deal with VoIP provider RingCentral (News - Alert) to provide HouseValues’ customers with an on-demand telecommunications service, including RingCentral’s RingMe “click-to-call” button.
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RingCentral's Online Communications Suite Wins Communications Solutions 2006 Product of the Year Award
May 11, 2007
RingCentral Online was designed specifically for small businesses and mobile professionals. The suite of services includes RingCentral’s suite of services includes customized voicemail greetings with auto-attendants, toll free numbers, and Internet-based fax.
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