Raketu Adds Jabber Instant Messaging To Current Google, Skype, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, ICQ Support

April 12, 2007; 07:26 AM
Raketu Communications Inc., the global Internet communications, information and entertainment company, today announced immediate availability of their updated Multi-Messenger that now includes support for Jabber instant messaging (IM), in addition to already supporting Google, Skype, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and ICQ (1), in its suite of voice and text communication options. Raketu includes high quality voice calling, SMS-text messaging, file transfers/sharing, news, sports, weather, stock feeds, an advanced internet and travel searching facility, podcast reader, and a full featured multi-media player. Raketu also includes its recently announced interactive ipTV and Video On Demand offerings. Through Raketu consumers can now use one single application to access all their instant messaging accounts and address books, and even transparently conference across them.

“With the addition of Jabber support, we continue to deliver on expanding our communications service offerings, and bringing Raketu one step closer to universal access from a single product,” said Greg Parker, President of Raketu. “We currently provide Raketu users a single interface where they can directly access all their voice calling, IM/SMS exchanges, and ipTV streaming video viewing in a single integrated application.”

Raketu currently has over a million consumers using its voice over IP (VoIP), ipTV streaming video and other services globally. Free to download and use, Raketu enables computers to be full-featured world-wide communications, information, and entertainment tools.

Raketu Technical Features

Raketu uses a unique peer-to-peer (p2p) technology, which allows the highest quality VoIP calling and the highest VoIP call-completion without the security issues associated with supernodes and other traditional VoIP services/p2p technologies. Specifically, Raketu does not use a consumer’s computer for routing the VoIP communications of other users.

Raketu services run over any Internet connection. Anyone on the Internet with a Windows PC and a headset can start using Raketu's Instant Messaging, VoIP, and other services immediately. Currently, all pre-paid customers of Raketu’s RakOut dial-out VoIP services enjoy free VoIP calling to over 40 countries. All VoIP calls to locations in these countries are free regardless of where the VoIP calls originate.

About Raketu Communications Inc.

Raketu Communications Inc. is developing leading edge peer-to-peer Internet protocol applications like voice over IP (VoIP), ipTV streaming video, and IM/SMS that provide communications, information and media services for consumers and for business. The company currently has users of its VoIP and ipTV streaming video services in over 200 countries around the world. For more information visit the company’s website at www.Raketu.com.

(1) Yahoo!, registered trademark of Yahoo! Inc., MSN, registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation, AOL, registered trademark of America Online, Inc., ICQ, registered trademark of ICQ Inc., a division of America Online, Inc., Skype, registered trademark of Skype Technologies S.A, GOOGLE/GMail, registered trademark of Google Inc.