Jun 06, 2007
8x8, Inc., provider of Packet8 residential, business and video Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone services, today announced the availability of new features and services for its Packet8 Virtual Office small business phone solution, recently rated the most popular hosted IP-PBX phone service in the U.S. by telecom research firm AMI Partners. The new offerings include Microsoft Outlook Integration, Overhead Paging and Toll Free Fax Numbers.
Available at no additional cost to subscribers, Virtual Office Outlook
Integration seamlessly integrates a users Microsoft Outlook contacts with
their Virtual Office extension, allowing subscribers to place and receive
calls through their Microsoft Outlook email client. Users have the ability
to select a contact and then place a call to that party through a variety
of options such as right clicking on the contact and selecting "Packet8
Call Contact" or double clicking the contact and selecting the Packet8 tab.
When placing a call through the Microsoft Outlook email client, Outlook
contacts the Virtual Office server and triggers it to ring the Virtual
Office phone on the users desk. Outlook Integration also allows Virtual
Office users to see who is calling them by displaying screen pops
containing the callers contact information retrieved from any mailbox and
any field (Business/Home/Mobile). If the contact is not found, a simple
dialog box showing the phone number of the person calling is displayed. The
Virtual Office Outlook Integration software client is available for free
download at http://www.packet8.net
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