Hi all
Came across this article from macclesfield-express ( a local british paper). Thought you may be interested. Also anyone know where i can download the Notse software ?
thanks
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Press Release Source: Notse
Notse See Runaway success in Its Two Weeks
Tuesday March 30, 1:00 pm ET
Undergraduate Students Take on The Telecoms Big Boys
Manchester, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --Some 12 Days after the Final Beta launch of the worlds first “browser-enabled web phone” which is an add-on to Web-Browsers such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Alexa’s Opera that allows users to make phone calls either PC-PC or PC-Real Phone number.
The software named Notse and developed by students Esi Aboni and Micheal Beevor currently studying at Manchester Univertsity in the UK. Notse allows phone calls to be made over either a broadband or dial-up connection. The service consists of a directory of contacts that become a permanent part of a user's internet browser, and a graphical telephone that can be used with a headset and microphone or a USB-based telephone unit.
Having Released the Final Beta release of Notse via several University Message board in the UK. The Company today has announced the registration of its 300,000 user.
“Yesterday saw an accident in a British Telecoms tunnel in Manchester which cut off phone lines for an estimated 160,000 homes and business’s in this region of England, One of the benefits of our current release is that it works on Microsoft Windows Enabled PDA and Laptops aswell as PC’s. With people having no option other than expensive mobile phone call charges , they’ve opted to download our program which enables free phone calls PC-PC aswell as PC-Phone number. In a way this accidental fire taking peoples phones out of service has brought some attention to Notse and with landlines being out of action for another 5 days atleast ,we expect a major increase in usage figures. Best of all, calls within the UK are free.”
About Notse
Notse is a proprietary software developed at the University of Manchester, UK over several months by Current undergraduates Esi Aboni and Micheal Beevor. Using proprietary software designed from the ground up to allow VoIP calling.
Features
Ø Alternate Call
Ø Conferencing , (3-way, blind, announce)
Ø Call forwarding (busy, no answer, unconditional, conditional)
Ø Call transfer (blind, announce)
Ø Call back
Ø Call hold/retrieve
Ø Call pickup
Ø Deflect alerting Call
Ø CTI Call Control
Ø Encrypted Calling
Ø Manymore
For further information, please contact: Esi Aboni, Notse +44 (7769668594), [email protected],
