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RENO, NV, Dec. 29, 2010 /Pressnewswire.org/ -- Today Merkur Investments Corporation announced the launch of Open Talk Magazine—a new online magazine with a fresh new concept. The idea for the magazine came together sometime in March 2010, and finally after months of planning and designing, the online magazine is finally in its soft-launch phase.

What this means is that the magazine is now online for public viewing with minimal features, categories and articles. The plan is to gradually grow out the magazine being that it is planned to be quite large in size and cover unlimited topics and categories.

The vision for Open Talk Magazine is to bring readers something different than most magazines in that its aim is to not be bounded to a specific targeted market, but rather “wide open” to all topics that cover most aspects of human life.

The Magazine is a 100% free, non-subscription based online magazine specifically created for the "people" of the Internet community. It specializes in educating, mentoring, empowering and inspiring others—covering life issues and challenges that we as human beings face or will come to face on a daily basis while living on earth.

Young and old alike will find many helpful, insightful, enlightening, and beneficial topics that they can use to better educate themselves on how to take on something that they are either going through, or will be going through in their lives.

Whether you are male or female; 10 years old or 70 years old; live in New York City or Clarence, Louisiana—Open Talk Magazine strives to include something helpful and beneficial to everybody that falls in the category of "human being" with the mission of helping, improving and changing the world one person at a time.

The magazine’s articles are written through the author's wisdom, experiences, research, education, intellect—as well as common sense; for this allows for “connectedness” between the reader and the article with the purpose of helping, improving and changing his or her life for the better.

Open Talk Magazine covers a broad range of categories, and features unlimited topics of interest. Its current categories include: Love & Relationships, Education & Learning, Life & Living, Health & Nutrition, It’s Political, and Technology—with many more planned to be launched in the coming months ahead.

With such a selfless mission being the driving force behind Open Talk Magazine, it’s going to be quite interesting watching it grow and mature over time; for the magazine is staged to help and benefit millions of people worldwide. Visit Open Talk Magazine (http://www.opentalkmagazine.com) today!

CONTACT:

Merkur Investments Corporation

105 Terminal Way, STE 110
Reno, Nevada 89502

Business Contact:

Larry West
lwest@opentalkmagazine.com



The addition of Cloudvox positions Ifbyphone as the only cloud telephony provider that enables customers to rent a phone-based application

Ifbyphone, Inc., a leader in cloud telephony, today entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Cloudvox.

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In addition to its suite of self-service Web configured and highly customizable phone applications, the acquisition positions Ifbyphone as an industry-leading application developer platform.

"By acquiring Cloudvox, we're sending a message to businesses of every size: If you're interested in using telephone applications to automate sales, marketing, business processes, and Web applications, we're the place to start," said Irv Shapiro, CEO of Ifbyphone. "Businesses can rent an existing application from us and tightly integrate their business with that app. Or they can now use Cloudvox to build their own portable, open application from scratch and still take advantage of our cloud infrastructure and phone expertise."

The addition of Cloudvox positions Ifbyphone as the only cloud telephony provider that enables customers to rent a phone-based application, integrate with an existing Ifbyphone app, or build a custom app. Cloudvox lets developers automate phone calls using their own software - code they write and control.

Cloudvox leverages the industry-leading Asterisk open-source phone server, and is similar to "Asterisk in the cloud."

While Asterisk is quite powerful, creating a reliable, scalable, feature-rich phone platform is difficult and capital-intensive. Cloudvox is compatible with existing Asterisk applications and software libraries; further, it is scalable, deployed in a carrier-grade environment, and simple for developers to use.

Cloudvox is well known among developers for its unique, standards-based solution. A hosted service, Cloudvox bridges Web apps with phone services, enabling developers to place, receive, and control phone calls from their own software (including Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C#, and simple HTTP/JSON).

"Cloudvox handles all of the telecom features, giving developers complete control of the phone call and their app," said Troy Davis, Cloudvox Co-Founder. "Cloudvox is the most practical way to launch comprehensive phone services, and with Ifbyphone's infrastructure and experience, we've created the best cloud model in the industry."

Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. For more information about Ifbyphone's Cloud Telephony applications, including IVR, Voice Broadcasting, Call Tracking, and Virtual Call Center, visit www.ifbyphone.com. To learn about or use Cloudvox, visit www.cloudvox.com.

About Ifbyphone

Ifbyphone provides businesses a suite of phone automation services to enhance customer communications, increase sales, and lower costs. With Ifbyphone's easy-to-use hosted services and tools, marketers, developers and business users can quickly create telephony systems to drive customer retention and acquisition. For more information, visit www.ifbyphone.com.

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Ifbyphone, Inc.

CONTACT: Cheryl Cink, +1 530-756-4630, ccink@comunicano.com, for Ifbyphone

Web site: http://www.ifbyphone.com/http://cloudvox.com/

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