By Gil Regev, Edited by Suzanne Bowen

Remember back in the 90s, Cu-SeeMe from Cornel University, Netmeeting, and other online solutions for video? It was amazing, like being a part of a Star Trek episode. I even used some of these video over IP software with eighth grade students I taught at Carver Middle School in Century, Florida to participate in global classroom activities. Today, I opened my work email and found this exciting information about fring, video and iPhone!

LONDON, December 01, 2009. fring, the multi-award winning mobile application that lets users communicate and share web-based experiences from their mobile devices, today announces the first ever mobile video calls over Internet for the iPhone.
 
These holidays, only iPhone and iPod touch users with fring can talk with and also see their family and friends on Skype or fring, from anywhere, for free, over Wi-Fi internet connection. This is the first video over internet service on the iPhone or iPod touch.
 
This video feature is embedded within the fring application that enables free voice calls from the iPhone and iPod Touch to other fring users, Skype and GTalk buddies as well as friends on regular phone lines via Skype-Out and hundreds of popular SIP services. fring users can live chat, update profiles, share files and talk with friends from several Instant Messaging services like MSN, AIM, GoogleTalk and Skype, in addition to interacting with popular online social networks like Twitter ,all from one integrated fring contact list.
 
Avi Shechter, Co-Founder & CEO of fring: “Leveraging excellent video capabilities on the iPhone and iPod touch together with our open internet and social environment, we’re bringing together families and friends these holidays, wherever they are…” Shechter continued, “We were the first to bring mobile voice over internet (VoIP) to mobile devices, the first to bring iPhone/ iPod touch users the choice to make free Internet calls, the first to enable cost-saving mobile twitter over internet, and now we’re proud to continue leading the field of  rich mobile-internet communication by bringing users the world’s first fring video calls over internet for the iPhone and iPod touch.”
 
The new fring version with video calls support is currently available to users with iPhone/ iPod touch OS 3.0 (only incoming video-stream available, due to the location of the camera) and selected  Nokia Symbian S60 devices (2-way video streaming is available) . In addition, fring supports thousands of handsets on multiple platforms including Symbian S60, Android, Windows Mobile, J2ME and Linux devices.

About fring™
fring (www.fring.com) is a multi-award winning mobile application that lets users communicate and share web-based experiences from their mobile devices.

fring operates as the users’ mobile social communication hub.

Friends talk, chat, share files & experiences on fring and other integrated communities and social networks including Skype®, Facebook®, GoogleTalk™, Twitter, AIM®, ICQ®, &Last.fm, all through one central profile.
fring lets users share experiences across social networks, mobile operators, device platforms and internet access connections. fring is completely free to download and free to use.

fring requires no additional hardware, is pc-independent, has no geographical or location limitations and operates on any available mobile internet connection (3G, Wi-Fi, GPRS, EDGE &WiMax). fring supports thousands of devices on multiple platforms including Symbian S60, iPhone/ iPod touch, Android, Windows Mobile, J2ME & Linux devices.

fring continues to grow exponentially with millions of users across more than 200 countries, with about half a million new users joining fring every month.
Trademarks or trademarks of fringland ltd. All rights reserved
 
Other trademarks are the trademarks of their respective owners. fring is independent from, and not affiliated with, those trademarks owners
 
The “Symbian” trademark is a brand and asset of Symbian Software Ltd.
 
This product uses Skype™ but is not endorsed or certified by Skype.
For more information, please contact:
 
Gil Regev, Marketing Communications Manager at fring™
gilr@fring.com, Tel: (+972) 54-2687906

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