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PamFax – no strings attached PC FAX

by alec on April 29, 2009

Just when you think a market must be dead, you learn something new.  For example, did you know that  FAX is a $500 million annual market, and that the growth segment in that market is PC based transmission – growing at 16% annually.  I certainly didn’t.

One of the stalwarts of the PC based faxing world is PamFax.  On Monday they announced PamFax 2.0, which brings a workflow based approach to PC faxing, as well as a the ability to send and receive fax at your PC from 27 different countries.  Installable as a Skype plug-in, a Facebook application, a SalesForce widget, or a Windows Vista sidebar gadget, PamFax is dragging fax into the 21st century.

PamFax pricing is cheap (prepaid) or cheaper (subscription), depending on whether you want to commit to a service term or just send the odd fax.  The first page is free, and each additional page is cheap – much cheaper than say a hotel’s business center.

Jim Courtney has written an extensive review, as well as a little bit of the history of PC based FAX for those inclined to indulge in a trip down memory lane. Anyone remember WinFAX? Jim does too, plus he remembers a few others that I didn’t even know about.

So if you need to FAX on the go check out PamFax.

 

 

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This morning we had the Ribbit team on the call. Ribbit continues to be one of the more interesting voice plays in the market, as they have figured out how to build out the application platform and revenue model that allows ordinary developers (web developers, not IMS geeks!) to be able to successfully incorporate voice into their web applications.

Ted and Greg walked us through the Ribbit for Salesforce application, as well as the overall Ribbit strategy, and we had some good and very intriguing questions from the likes of Dan York and Martyn Davies.

Enjoy the podcast! Tomorrow I won’t be on the call, because I’ll be on a flight, but Dan York will lead a discussion on 2 recent developments… the recent speculation that carriers may be trying to build a Skype competitor, and the new Wimax investments by McCaw and company.

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