Business 2.0 Selects Vivox for the Next Net 25 List

Business Wire, Feb 28, 2006

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Vivox, a pioneer in delivering communication to communities, is counted among Business 2.0's "The Next Net 25" list. "The Next Net 25," selected by Business 2.0 editors, includes the top 25 companies that are reinventing the web.

According to the Business 2.0 feature, "'The Next Net 25' will encompass all digital devices, from PC to cell phone to television. Its defining characteristics include the ability to interact instantaneously with any of the more than one billion Web users across the globe - not by say, instant messaging, but by evolving instant-voice-messaging and instant-video-messaging apps that will make today's email and IM seem crude."

Vivox's tailored services bring the intelligence and richness of real world communication to online communities, creating more powerful and more natural interactions. Vivox Precision Studio is the overall service platform and the foundation to Vivox's gaming, dating and social networking solutions. Precision Studio combines text, voice, video, multi-party communication and presence, in simple and intuitive solutions. Immersion, Vivox's gaming specific solution, brings high quality, real-time integrated voice and IM communication into the gaming environment. Vivox's Tempo offers online dating and social networking services a broad array of IP communication tools - IM, voice and video - that seamlessly integrate into their community. In addition, the Vivox Precision Studio's innovative rules engine ensures that a users' privacy is never compromised. Users can implement advanced safety and security features in their personal settings to allow for more natural, controlled and graduated connections.

"Business 2.0's inclusion of Vivox in 'The Next Net 25' list is tremendous recognition of our vision to make online communications a natural, ubiquitous, and seamless experience," states Rob Seaver, CEO, Vivox. "Our goal is to make communication part of the web experience in ways that are transformational for how people interact online and how sites serve their communities."

The complete list of "The Next Net 25" companies and the entire article, written by Erick Schonfeld, Om Malik, and Michael Copeland, was published in the March issue of Business 2.0.

About Vivox

Vivox's managed services generate natural and engaging online interactions that reflect the intelligence, power and nuance of real world communication. Vivox's carrier-grade communications platform, Precision Studio, combines text, voice, video, multi-party communication and presence, in simple and intuitive solutions for online communities. With specific offerings for the online dating and Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming markets, Vivox generates incremental revenue opportunities and enhances services for its customers' unique businesses. For more information please visit www.vivox.com.