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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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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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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 à 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 Raises $12 Million From Khosla And Sequoia
September 21, 2007
On Monday, the company will announce they raised a $12 million series A financing from two highly respected firms, Khosla Ventures and Sequoia. RingCentral is also adding a new CFO, Dinesh Lathi, who was an ex-VP of eBay. They have currently provisioned over 100,000 numbers and serve over 40,000 paying customers with plans ranging from $9.99 per month to $24.99 per month.
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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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