Tags: Audio-Conferencing, Remote Control, Ring2, Windows Mobile

Ring2 Extends Audio-Conferencing Remote Control to Windows Mobile

Ring2 Conferencing, the world’s first audio-conferencing company to offer remote control of calls from a mobile device, announced today that it is extending its service to support Windows Mobile® devices.

Ring2 customers with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices will now be able to use these handsets to take remote control of their conference calls. While they can still dial into the call from any phone, their mobile device now becomes a separate remote controller of the call leading to enhanced visibility, security and control.

“This service enhancement is a result of the strong market adoption of our remote control for BlackBerry® smartphones,” said Alex Breen, vice president of product management at Ring2. “The mobile remote control we offer is unique in the industry and gets straight to the heart of everyday problems that frustrate frequent conference callers.”

Using Ring2’s service, with a single click the call leader can join the conference from a phone of their choice and then:
See a real-time list of participants as they join or leave the call
Ensure nobody is listening in who shouldn’t be
Add a missing participant from the mobile device address book
Mute the participant with distracting background noise
Record the call, downloadable as an MP3 file after the call

Audio-conferencing has become a $5 billion per annum everyday business activity, and Ring2 is focused on solving problems that have grown up with the industry. The company has ported its remote control capabilities onto mobile devices because so many conference calls are made away from the desk. Wainhouse Research has reported that 40 percent of conference calls are made from good old-fashioned meeting rooms. Ring2 is achieving 60 percent adoption rates of its mobile remote control tool compared with industry rates of less than 5 percent for PC-based control.

According to Gartner, Inc., shipments of Windows Mobile PDAs grew 64 percent in the first quarter of 2007, helping propel worldwide PDA shipments to 5.1 million units, a 39.7 percent increase from the first quarter of 2006. Additionally, Microsoft has recently predicted that 20 million Windows Mobile 6 devices will ship in 2008.

About Ring2

Ring2 provides the world’s first audio-conferencing service to offer problem-solving remote control from a mobile device, enabling simple and powerful visibility, security and control over conference calls. Ring2 is a member of the BlackBerry Independent Software Vendor Alliance Program and is a technology partner of Alcatel-Lucent. The company won Red Herring’s 2007 100 Europe award for hottest emerging technology in Europe and won Frost & Sullivan’s 2006 Entrepreneurial Company Award in audio-conferencing for its pioneering work in mobile remote control. Ring2 is privately held, has received $10 million in equity funding and has 45 employees in offices located in London and San Francisco. For more information or to view a demonstration of Ring2’s award-winning business audio-conferencing service, please visit www.ring2.com.

Contacts

Ring2
Steve Flavell
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
steve {at} ring2(.)com
or
ink Communications for Ring2
Jennifer Hicks, +1-617-488-0988 ext. 2
jennifer {at} theinkstudio(.)com