cellfrog | Business Phone Conferencing made easy, efficient and collaborative

Here at CellFrog we thought we’d announce an exciting new iPhone product that we wrote in our spare time.  Since we’re big advocates of open source technologies we took it upon ourselves to show a little initiative.  Announcing the FreeSWITCH console for iPhone.  Developers rejoice, you can finally use your iPhone to monitor your developer FreeSWITCH instances.  Best of all the product is FREE and can be downloaded via the iTunes App Store.

FreeSWITCH is an open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat driven products scaling from a soft-phone up to a soft-switch.

Damien Howley (CEO of CellFrog) participated in the graphics work and Chris Danielson (CTO of CellFrog) wrote the iPhone native application.  Chris Danielson released the iPhone application through his consulting company MaxPowerSoft, LLC in order to easily facilitate the release into the iTunes App Store.

Thanks,
Chris Danielson
CellFrog CTO
@cellfrog

With CellFrog you don’t have to fumble around for a dial-in or pin number, we call you and all your participants when your call is starting.  CellFrog also manages all communication between you and your participants and emails you when users are confirmed.

CellFrog scheduled conference calls take the wasted time out of managing a busy conference call schedule, watch our demo video to see how easy CellFrog is.

Thanks for your time,

Damien Howley,
CellFrog CEO
@cellfrog

CellFrog is proud to announce the addition of Conference Recording Plus, a new conference call and interview recording tool that allows users to easily record, publish and share recordings. Conference Recording Plus is equipped with conference call recording, mp3 downloading and recording embedding. All recordings are always available online at www.CellFrog.com for quick sharing and managing recording access.

Conference Recording Plus provides a new way for bloggers, reporters and researchers to add interactivity to their content. Live phone recordings can be added to your blog, wiki or website to give readers or community members inside access to meetings, interviews, announcements and more…

Additionally Conference Recording Plus enables a new level or reach for previously hidden and underexposed conference calls. Project teams and company departments can quickly and easily share recording and review recordings from the past.

Now, missing a conference call doesn’t mean that you miss out! With such easy access to conference call recordings you can replay missed conference calls from your desktop or web browser at your convenience. Conference recordings are even available in mp3 format allowing users to sync and playback on any portable audio device, such as an iPhone or iPod. Productivity on the go!

Try CellFrog Conference Recording Plus now for FREE at www.CellFrog.com.

Damien Howley
CellFrog CEO
@CellFrog

We’re happy to announce the addition of some new CellFrog local phone numbers for both New York and San Francisco. The new local phone numbers are intended to offer more convenient and affordable connections for our current users. More local phone numbers will be announced in the future as available.

A full list of our phone numbers is available at CellFrog.com/numbers.

Thanks

CellFrog CEO
@CellFrog

Because the demand for CellFrog has increased drastically over the last few months we are now able to provide our services at a reduced rate. As a token of our appreciation we would like to pass our discount on to you with new lower rates. Starting today the CellFrog base rate has been cut 25% to only 6¢ / minute and the CellFrog 877 rate has been cut 33% to 10¢ / minute. These newer rates are a direct reflection of our growth and determination to offer our users the most affordable and efficient conference calling service available.

In addition to our new lower rates we will also be offering bulk purchase discounts which further reduce the cost of conference calling for CellFrog users.

Thanks for your time,

CellFrog CEO
@CellFrog

We’re proud to announce the addition of reservationless conference calling. Reservationless conference calling is an ad-hoc form of confernce calling that allows users to call in at any time without a scheduled conference. Reservationless conference calling will provide CellFrog users the ability to choose between scheduling a conference ahead of time or starting a conference on the fly further extending the CellFrog conference calling options.

How it works

Unlike scheduled conference calls where each conference ID and conference pin is unique, reservationless calling utilizes a static conference ID and PIN that is assigned to each user upon registration. As a CellFrog user your reservationless ID and PIN never changes which makes starting a conference call easy and quick.

Administrators and Users

CellFrog users will be assigned both an administrative PIN number and a user PIN number which can be found on your user homepage. The administrativ PIN number is required to start a conference call. Those attendees who login with the user PIN will be placed on hold until an administrator is present.

As the administrator of your account you will be the only person who is notified of the administrative PIN number. All other attendees will be given the user PIN number to access the conference call.

Thanks

CellFrog CEO
@CellFrog

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San Diego, CA – Feb 23, 2009 – CellFrog, a web 2.0 phone conferencing and collaboration service, announces integration with Google Contacts, enabling one click synchronization between CellFrog and Google services such as Gmail, Google Docs and others.  CellFrog users can now easily create and schedule conference calls with all of their Google contacts.

The Google Contact synchronization tool allows users to seamlessly browse through and include their Google Contacts in scheduled and ad-hoc phone conferences.  CellFrog users can also manage and add supplementary contact data to their Google contacts to facilitate alternative connection methods.

CellFrog, who also offers integration with the Plaxo platform, is striving to make conference call organization, execution and collaboration as seamless and efficient as possible.  CellFrog manages the conference call schedule, connection and confirmation making it easy to handle a busy conference agenda.  Additionally CellFrog offers file sharing, conference feedback and live attendee management via their web interface.

About CellFrog

CellFrog is leading the way for easy, efficient and cost effective conference calling by utilizing web and VOIP technologies.  Users can collaborate and communicate on and beyond the conference call enabling a closer and faster conference experience.  Our services combine the ease-of-use and viral adoption aspects of web 2.0 with the traditional phone conference user experience.  We strive to offer the easiest and most manageable phone conferencing solution available.

For more information, contact pr@cellfrog.com

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San Diego, CA – Feb 23, 2009 – CellFrog, a web 2.0 phone conferencing and collaboration service, announces integration with Google Docs.  The integration enables live collaborative editing and sharing of Google Docs with conference call attendees.

Users can access their Google Docs via the conference dashboard; a web based tool that provides file sharing, attendee feedback and live attendee management of a phone conference.

The Google Docs integration allows users to directly access their existing documents and spreadsheets.  Users can then choose to share their documents with all conference attendees or edit them directly within the CellFrog site.

Once a user has shared a Google Docs file CellFrog notifies all conference attendees of the newly available file.  The Google Docs integration seamlessly compliments the file management tool which can be used to upload any other pertinent files for the conference.

About CellFrog

CellFrog is leading the way for easy, efficient and cost effective conference calling by utilizing web and VOIP technologies. Users can collaborate and communicate on and beyond the conference call enabling a closer and faster conference experience. Our services combine the ease-of-use and viral adoption aspects of web 2.0 with a traditionally accepted phone conferencing revenue model. We strive to offer the easiest and most manageable phone conferencing solution available.

For more information, contact pr@cellfrog.com