As one of the eight CATA Award Winners, iotum was recognized for its intelligent call filtering, prioritizing and routing application and its Pronto Conference Calling application.

The Relevance Engine is the world's first smart platform to intelligently assess the relevance of any call, and automatically route that call to the most appropriate destination.

Iotum intelligently filters, ranks, and prioritizes calls based on their relevance to you. Using your contextual information and preferences, iotum knows who's calling, whether you want to take the call, and which phone you want to use.

American Capital Strategies Ltd. announced today it has invested in the One Stop Buyout(TM) of FreeConference.com Inc., a leading provider of free telephone conference calling services.

American Capital's investment takes the form of a senior term loan, senior subordinated debt, redeemable preferred equity, convertible preferred equity and common equity.

American Capital is also providing a revolving credit facility. Glickman Capital and Broadstream Capital Partners, both advisers to FreeConference.com, and FreeConference.com management are also investing in the equity. Post close, American Capital owns 84% of the Company on a fully diluted basis.

KickBackConferencing.com Provides New Conferencing Calling Service Designed to Cut Communications Cost and Generate Revenue.

KickBackConferencing.com today announced that the company will pay people to use its new Conferencing Calling service.

A first in the competitive world of telecommunications, the company will pay users 1/2 cent per minute for each and every participant involved in their teleconference.

Start-up Ring2 Communciations Ltd has launched what it claims is the first enterprise service that turns a BlackBerry device into a remote controller of audio-only conference calls.

In other words, the conference call participants can see who's on the call, add participants from their BlackBerry address book, and drop or hold or mute participants. Invitations can also be integrated with Outlook and other email applications.