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The New Jersey Technology Council named Phone (News - Alert).com, a phone service for small businesses and professionals implementing a virtual office, the Communications Company of the Year.

Phone.com will be honored at the annual NJTC Awards Gala on November 17th. Yet another event to which this reporter was not invited. Funny enough we weren’t offered an all-expense paid trip by our employer either. No doubt an administrative oversight. Well, no matter, we don’t have a dinner jacket anyway.

“We are humbled and honored to be the recipients of the NJTC Communications Company of the Year Award for 2010,” said Ari Rabban (News - Alert), CEO and co-founder of Phone.com, in a press release. “We are very proud of our achievements and our growth in our three years in business and to be honored in the state were telecommunications was invented is incredible.”

Maxine Ballen, CEO and president of the NJTC, said year after year Phone.com (News - Alert) “has demonstrated their ability to be an innovator and leader in affordable small business telephony solutions. We are excited to watch Phone.com continue to grow and innovate in the years ahead.”

Earlier this month TMC (News - Alert) had the news that Phone.com, an innovative and affordable home and business phone service, announced today that fully automated voicemail message transcriptions are now available.

In addition to listening to their voicemails, every Phone.com customer can now also view the transcribed text of their voicemail messages on their phone and in their email inboxes.

Messages are transcribed immediately upon receipt and are forwarded to the customer’s email as well as to their phones as an SMS text message. Unlike other services that provide human-assisted transcriptions, Phone.com’s transcriptions are 100 percent automated.

Based on software developed by Yap (News - Alert), the company’s automated Text Voicemail provides the highest level of speech recognition technology, enabling faster and more accurate transcriptions.

David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.

Edited by Jaclyn Allard