Big news for Cloud Phone! Our web app has just been dubbed the winner in the Best Mobile Utility category of the 2014 Silicon Valley Business App Awards, organized by market research firm Regalix. Approximately 200 nominees -- including well-known brands such as Citrix, AT&T, Accenture, HTC, Cisco, Sugar CRM, ADIDAS, and others -- were considered for several categories, and 8 emerged in the winning slots, including yours truly! (Did we mention that we beat out some of our large, established competitors, including Ringcentral and Grasshopper? ;)
Here's the official press release....
Voxox’s Cloud Phone Named Winner in Best Mobile Utility Category of 2014 Silicon Valley Business App Awards
Cloud Phone is one of eight competition winners among roughly 200 nominees, which include well-known brands such as Citrix, Accenture, AT&T, HTC, Cisco, ADIDAS and more
SAN DIEGO – October 15, 2014 – Voxox®, the most comprehensive cloud-based rich communication service for consumers and businesses, today announced that its virtual PBX service, Cloud Phone, has been named the winner in the Best Mobile Utility category of the 2014 Silicon Valley Business App Awards (SVBA) - sponsored by Regalix, Inc. Hailed as the most prestigious app and device awards program in Silicon Valley, the SVBA recognizes and rewards the best achievements in mobile, social, and wearable technology. The SVBA Awards attract entries from across the world and are judged by a panel of independent, highly respected experts. This year’s competition had approximately 200 nominees, including well-known brands such as Citrix, AT&T, Accenture, HTC, Cisco, Sugar CRM, ADIDAS, and others. Cloud Phone, an HTML5-based web app that launched earlier this year, garnered top honors over large, established competitors, including Ringcentral and Grasshopper.
"Voxox’s Cloud Phone has set the standard for innovation and creativity in the mobile utility app world," said Vikas Sharan, CEO, SVBA Awards. "This award is a testament to the skill, ingenuity, and vision of its creators."
Cloud Phone empowers small business owners with a dedicated toll free or local business telephone number that can be forwarded to a user’s existing phone. Cloud Phone supports multiple employee extensions worldwide, and offers convenient telephony features, such as sophisticated call routing, transcribed voicemail-email delivery, web callback and more. The all web-based service is managed through a sleek user interface and can be set up in under a minute. Since its introduction to the market in February 2014, Cloud Phone has won multiple awards for its simple yet effective phone solution for one-to-10 person businesses. A 30-day free trial is available to all new subscribers.
"We are thrilled to see Cloud Phone take home the win in the prestigious Silicon Valley Business App Awards, having competed alongside such renown brands as Cisco, HTC, ADIDAS and other household names,” said Bryan Hertz, co-founder and CEO of Voxox. “We launched Cloud Phone earlier this year to address the gap in the micro-business market for a powerful yet easy-to-use business phone solution that centers on the smartphone. This award is a milestone to our commitment to Cloud Phone’s continuous evolution.”
The SVBA panel of judges, comprised of industry experts who have made significant contributions to the advancement of technology, selected the winners from submissions received from around the globe. For more information about the SVBA competition, please visit http://www.svbaawards.com/. To learn more about Cloud Phone, please visit www.cloudphone.com.
About Voxox
Voxox is an innovator in unified cloud communication solutions for consumers and businesses. For consumers and its operator partners, Voxox delivers cutting-edge mobile and desktop applications that integrate voice, video, messaging, fax, media sharing and more. For businesses, Voxox provides an extensive suite of carrier-grade business phone solutions, including hosted IP-PBX, SIP Trunking, a wide array of wholesale services, such as high volume SMS, and the company's new virtual PBX service, Cloud Phone. The foundation of the company’s offerings is its award-winning unified communications platform in the cloud, which enables the company and its customers to build powerful, scalable applications and services. Founded in 2006, Voxox is headquartered in San Diego. For more information, please visit www.voxox.com.