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FirstHand Technologies Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Magazine's 2006 Product of the Year Award
OTTAWA --(Business Wire)-- FirstHand Technologies today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R))'s INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com) has named the FirstHand Enterprise Mobility Solution (EMS) as a recipient of a 2006 Product of the Year Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998(TM).
The FirstHand EMS extends IP PBX/IP Centrex functionality, including single number accessibility with full call screening, to any smartphone and dual-mode device for actual calls - even 4/5/6 digit internal enterprise calls. And it provides this functionality with an intuitive unified communications user interface that includes corporate directory, presence, voice messaging, instant messaging and more. The FirstHand EMS integrates the FirstHand Enterprise Mobility Gateway, Mobile Assistant and Mobile Console.
"We are excited to receive this award," said David Hattey, president and CEO FirstHand Technologies. "Last year saw FirstHand Technologies deploy in Europe with a major carrier, announce a field trial in North America, partner with numerous IP PBX and IP Centrex vendors, introduce new products, and announce new funding. As customer demand heats up for enterprise communications everywhere, we expect 2007 to be another exciting year for our organization."
"INTERNET TELEPHONY is proud to bestow FirstHand Technologies with a 2006 Product of the Year Award. Each year INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine recognizes companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. "FirstHand Technologies has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. We're proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future."
A full list of Product of the Year winners will be published in the February, 2007 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. (www.itmag.com)
For more information about TMC and INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, please visit www.tmcnet.com.
About FirstHand Technologies
FirstHand Technologies mobilizes the enterprise by extending the functionality of numerous IP PBXs to a variety of smartphones and PDAs. FirstHand Technologies empowers an enterprise's workforce to go mobile with the same functionality as their office desktop. The FirstHand Technologies advanced fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution delivers enterprise features and "single number" seamless connectivity over cellular networks and/or WiFi enabling organizations to achieve "enterprise communications everywhere." The enterprise benefits from faster communication abilities, increased productivity, and significant cost savings.
Based in Ottawa, Canada, FirstHand Technologies' solutions are embedded or bundled into the world's premier equipment vendors, systems integrators and service provider's products. For more information, please visit www.firsthandtech.com.
About INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazine
Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY is the only magazine that focuses on providing information in IP communications technologies. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine provides readers with the best information necessary to learn about and purchase the equipment, software, and services. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Miercom. The only BPA-audited publication that's 100% dedicated to providing the highest quality content for the IP communications market, INTERNET TELEPHONY has 55,000 dedicated readers.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 2,600 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)
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