FuzeBox, the major player in real time visual collaboration/Web meeting applications for millions of end users across various businesses, announced FuzeBox Ignite platform and released new Open Application Programming Interfaces Program for third-party and independent software developers around the world.

The developers, through FuzeBox Ignite are allowed to create a new wave of mobile and Web meeting applications.

The company's popular Fuze Meeting and Fuze Messenger services, with the FuzeBox Ignite platform will now be available to more users. The platform will also allow for the integration of the Fuze Meeting and Fuze Messenger services into a wide range of third party products and websites, signaling a shift in the way people use collaboration and conferencing services in a mobile world. The company under the new FuzeBox Ignite API program is also announcing alliances with top tier companies such as Thomson (News - Alert) Reuters.

"FuzeBox's Ignite platform helped us to extend our collaboration tools across mobile networks - making our community accessible wherever customers are," stated Eran Barak, senior vice president of Global Head of Community Strategy for Thomson Reuters (News - Alert), in a press release. "FuzeBox's technology and team have been of great support to our efforts in the mobile space."

Utilizing lightweight and easy to implement JavaScript, the FuzeBox Ignite platform offers the power of Fuze Meeting and Fuze Messenger to website owners with minimal effort. The developers, through the FuzeBox Ignite program, will be provided with technical documentation, software development kits, sample source code, reference guides, and "virtual sandboxes" for testing new and innovative Web meeting applications.

Some of the features of the FuzeBox Ignite platform APIs include:

• Mobile Platform support: Fuze Meeting, Fuze Messenger and Presence services are available across iOs, Android and BlackBerry (News - Alert) platforms
• Cloud based: 100 percent browser-based technology enabling end users to access FuzeBox applications from any platform, on any browser
• Real-time synchronization: High Definition content and desktop sharing, with zero latency and no quality lost to pixilation, plus the added benefit of persistent IM. All data is stored securely and encrypted in the FuzeBox cloud
• Universal contact integration: Integrate contacts and address books across native and external IM networks and corporate as well as social contact databases
• Customization: FuzeBox supports two-way integration, and customized implementations in support of partner specific use cases, for strategic opportunities. This includes branding, localization, and other customization options

In related news, FuzeBox introduces Fuze Presence, the first-ever mobile multi-party HD video conference solution