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Multimedia-messaging application company Voxer today announced the availability of "Walkie Talkie" mode for Voxer Business users that is designed to transform smart iOS and Android devices into push-to-talk (PTT) devices for live communications via IP connectivity.
Earlier this year, San Francisco-based Voxer launched its Voxer Business offering, which provides enterprises with the ability to have administrative controls-for instance, the ability to create teams, as well as add and delete users-over its service for $9.95 per user per month, according to Voxer President Irv Remedios. With today's announcement, Voxer Business will include the company's "very unique and interesting" push-to-talk functionality for no additional cost, he said.
"When you hit the talk button, we are simultaneously sending audio to the other person or group, and we're storing it," Remedios said during an interview with IWCE's Urgent Communications . "So, you have the live communication that you have in a push-to-talk experience; the other person can be listening immediately, as soon as you hit the talk button. Or, if they're not available, they get a notification, and they can go into the app when they are ready to respond and respond to you later.
"So it has both the real-time aspect of...