Turn your iPhone into an instant fax machine with Popfax

Following its strategy of expanding online fax services to mobile devices, Popfax.com- the global provider of internet fax services announces the launch of its free faxing application for iPhone.  Popfax now serves most of its customers’ mobile devices.

 The new application called PopCompanion increases users’ mobility and productivity by providing them the possibility of sending and receiving faxes and managing their Popfax account directly from their iPhone, anywhere and anytime. Simply put, it turns the smart phone into a pocket fax machine, which is very easy to use: no more paper and toner expenses, no more annoying fax machines, just your mobile with professional faxing solutions.

 The PopCompanion is much more than a simple application for faxing from a smart phone – it is a complete unified messaging tool with a wide range of features:

 - Sending of simple text faxes, browsing the file from a local folder, or sending faxes with a cover page.
- Receiving of an unlimited number of faxes for free.
- Sending SMS’s worldwide.
- Receiving voicemails and personalizing the welcome message.
- Managing the Popfax.com account details and settings.
- Managing the contacts and using both phone and Popfax contacts to send fax messages.

 The new PopCompanion for iPhone is available in the Apple App Store. Anyone can try the application by subscribing to the Popfax.com Free Trial offer of 3 days with no obligation to buy.

 After you make sure that Popfax mobile app is suitable for your business faxing needs, you can take the next step of choosing one of the plans available at really affordable prices.

 About Popfax.com

 Popfax.com is a leading global provider of Internet fax services. It allows end-users to send and receive faxes using a web interface, an e-mail client, a desktop client or a printer driver which can be installed on a computer desktop. Integrated to front or back office applications, it allows the carrying out of transactional tasks via fax.

 The service is edited by the French incorporated company POPFAX founded by Vladimir Popesco, and has been commercialized since 2006, based on a “software as a service” business model. It is both a solution for individual professionals (SMEs and SoHos) and for corporate customers who use this outsourced solution to meet their faxing needs. It can replace fax server equipment, be used as a mobile fax fleet, or fit into a transactional application.

Voicemail contest for Popfax Customers

Popfax.com, the global provider of professional Internet fax services, is pleased to announce a new contest for its customers. Five Amazon.com gift cards (€100 each) are waiting for the participants who send us the best audio spots about the Popfax service: an audio advertising, a thanking or greeting.

The contest begins on November 21^st, 2011 and is only open to customers who are legal residents of countries where Popfax provides fax numbers: France, USA, UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Netherland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Hungary, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and who have reached the age of majority at the time of entry.

Five winning voicemails (one in each of the following languages: French, English, Italian, Spanish and German) that promote Popfax will be selected by the Popfax.com marketing team and announced on January 9^th, 2012. The selection will be made based on the voicemail that promotes the Popfax service in the most remarkable and enjoyable way. The winners will be notified by email and revealed on Popfax’s different social media accounts (including the Popfax Facebook page). The voicemails might be reused in Popfax communication.

“This voicemail contest invites our customers to use more of the features embedded in our unified messaging solution. Indeed, although we are well-known for our professional fax solutions, our service includes many productivity features like Internet fax, SMS, fax email, call transfer and voicemail… We are using this contest as an opportunity to promote the voicemail option to all our current and future customers, some of whom might have not yet discovered it. This feature allows end-users to set up their Popfax account as an answering machine and receive voice messages on the move, either by e-mail or by calling back their number like a traditional answering machine.” said Vladimir Popesco the CEO and founder of Popfax.com.

In order to take part in the contest, customers have to:

1. Access their Popfax.com account, go to Account Management -> Voice parameters and enable the Voicemail option.
2. Activate “Email notification” and “Permanent redirection of voice messages to your email box”, then click on “Modify”.
3. Call their Popfax.com fax number and leave the voicemail related to Popfax that they think will be the “best” audio spot. As a result, they will receive the recorded voicemail in their email.
4. Register the recorded voicemail in the contest.

More information on the contest’s rules and requirements can be found on the Popfax Facebook page.

Popfax launches a new mobile application for BlackBerry

Popfax.com, the leading European provider of professional Internet fax service has launched the Popcompanion mobile for BlackBerry. It is a unified messaging application that allows end-users to send and receive faxes, SMSs, voice messages on their smart phones being in or out of the office. The application is designed to extend the usage of Internet fax service to BlackBerry OS that is a powerful mobile platform, being one of the most popular mobile operating system in the world.

The application is free; it can be downloaded from Popfax website or from Blackberry App World. It includes all Popfax features that allow end-users to:

• Manage their communication being on the move – send faxes or SMSs to Popfax contacts, phone contacts or new contacts. Customize faxes with a cover page, receive notifications on fax delivery.

• Get instant access to faxes from everywhere – preview, copy and forward fax to email or to another fax number. Solely an Internet connection is required; everything else is managed by Popfax service.

• Organize personal contacts and faxes – manage personal contacts, set up groups of contacts, organize faxes in folders.

• Benefit from voice features – listen or download received voice messages, set up the smart phone as an answering machine.

“Blackberry was the first mobile operating system that disjointed the email service from the personal computer to a mobile device. We are performing the same thing with faxing, following our strategy on expanding online fax services to mobile devices. Popcompanion for BlackBerry is the second application that we have launched, after the Android one, and the following release will be the iPhone application. Thus, we’ll offer to our customers the complete set of mobile applications running on the top three mobile platforms” declared Vladimir Popesco, the General Manager of Popfax.com.

Professionals can now manage efficiently their business workflow with Popcompanion mobile, which is practically a miniature fax machine in their pocket.

Corporate internet fax solutions

Traditional faxing in a large corporation represents a heterogeneous ensemble of telephone lines, fax machines, multifunctional devices, expensive and complex fax servers and the logistics for replacement of paper stock and ink cartridges. All this means intricate systems or contractual relationships, an environmentally unfriendly attitude, results in avoidable office expense.

A virtual fax solution in a mobile and unified electronic messaging system, like fax to email, mail to fax, mobile-desktop-web applications avoids printing most of your faxes. It would save tons of paper and ink cartridges and remove the need for fax equipment recycling.

Popfax.com, the leading European provider of Internet fax services, announces its new Corporate offer that comes with a complete and flexible set of fax solutions that can be tailored to the communication needs of each professional.

The solutions for Corporate customers offer several levels of customization and provisioning:

• Professional services – new Internet fax packages specially designed to fulfill specific companies’ communication needs. These packages are tailored offers for corporations interested in secure faxing, high-volume reception, personalized fax sending and number portability.
• Global account – a centralized management system, allowing administration and tracking of all fax users within a company.
• Custom development – the Internet fax service can be tailored and personalized for any communication needs of a company. The Popfax engineering team provides custom IT development on demand, thus expanding Internet fax use to new applications.
• Premium support – corporate fax solution includes, by default, strong contractual commitments for quality of service, a dedicated project manager and dedicated resources based on premium hardware and software solutions.

For more information on Popfax corporate offers, please consult the corporate fax solutions page.

“It took years of efforts and improvements to build and offer our professional Internet fax solutions as they are today. Based on our experience providing custom fax solutions to large corporations, we have laid down a methodology and a set of tools in order to speed-up the process of providing our fax solutions to enterprises” says Vladimir Popesco, the CEO of Popfax.com.

End of Summer Contest !!

The Popfax Summer Contest is now over! Thank you for participating!! We’ll announce the Winner and owner of the Samsung Galaxy Tab on 10th of September, on our Popfax page on Facebook.

New Summer Contest for Popfax Customers!

Popfax.com, the leading internet fax service provider, announces the beginning of a summer contest for its customers! The winner will receive a Samsung Galaxy Tab device and a Popfax mug.

The contest begins on July 18th, 2011 and is open only to individuals who are legal residents of countries where Popfax provides fax numbers: France, USA, UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Netherland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Georgia, Hungary, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and who are 18 years of age or older.

In order to join the contest, participants have to:

• Access the http://www.popfax.com page.
• Subscribe or extend their existing Popfax.com account for a Send & Receive package (1 year Send & receive or PROMO pack) during the contest period, from July 18th, 2011 until September 2nd, 2011.
• Send an email to contest@popfax.com with their subscription details plus a picture of a strange or funny or unusual situation in relation with Popfax.

When the contest ends on September 2nd, our marketing teams will perform a ranking of the pictures from the customers who have sent a message with the subscription details. The winner will be notified by email and the information will be published on the Popfax Facebook page!

“We are very happy to announce our summer contest along with our new promotional offer. As many business professionals are away from their office this summer, we offer them the chance to win a Samsung Galaxy tab, which will allow them to stay in touch with their businesses: anytime, everywhere. All existing and new customers are welcome to join the contest, the prize is waiting for them!” said Vladimir Popesco, founder and CEO of Popfax.

More information about the Popfax Summer Contest is available on http://www.facebook.com/pages/Popfax/148396398519818 , “Events tab”.

Free OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for received faxes with Popfax

New Android unified messaging application for Popfax customers

Popfax.com, the leading European provider of Internet fax services has developed a new Android application called Popcompanion mobile that turns a mobile device into a pocket fax machine. All Popfax features and faxing options are integrated into the new mobile application. POPFAX is offering its customers instant access, wherever they are and whenever they need it, to faxes, SMSs, and voice messages, directly from their smart phones.

The application is available for free, and can be downloaded from the Popfax website or from the Android marketplace.

“As business becomes more pervasive, always carrying a unified messaging solution with you makes more sense: you may never know when you need it, but when you do it is there, in the mobile device that stays with you 24/7. The application was first released on the Android platform, which seems to have the fastest pick-up with our clients. Releases for other platforms like Blackberry and iPhone will be available very soon.” Vladimir Popesco, managing director of Popfax.com.

The new application works in conjunction with a Popfax online account and allows customers to:
• Send and receive faxes or SMSs
• View, download and forward faxes to email, or to another fax number
• Receive and listen to voice messages
• Personalize faxes with a cover page
• Manage personal contacts and folders

With Popcompanion mobile your business communications now fit in your pocket. Download, scan or take a picture of a document and fax it instantly using the installed Popcompanion

Popfax extends its coverage in USA

Popfax.com the leading European provider of Internet fax services has extended coverage on the American continent, providing local fax numbers in more than 200 cities across the biggest metropolitan areas. This expansion is a part of the company strategy in providing cost-effective, fully featured and worlwide available fax services.

As USA is the leading technological market with the biggest Internet usage rate in North America, in the first quarter of 2011, Popfax intends to cover additional top 100 cities, including: Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Jersey City, Orlando, Arlington, Augusta-Richmond and others.
The next step in increasing its presence on the American continent will be the implementation of automated portability process: the users will be able to order the portability online and keep their fax numbers, while subscribing to Popfax service.

“Even in difficult economic times, Popfax continues to extend its coverage, to develop new features as voice mail and to launch new versions of the productivity software tools as Popcompanion and Printer driver, thus strengthening its role as a leading global internet fax provider” said Vladimir Popesco, the General Manager at Popfax.com.

Unified messaging (Fax, SMS, Voice Mail) by Popfax.com

Popfax.com extends the scope of services offered to its customers with a voice mail now associated with the Popfax number. From now on, the number can selectively answer to voice or fax calls. This first voice service comes as a move towards unified messaging that has been initiated when including SMS services.

In our high tech world, phone calls and faxes, along with other means of communication, are at the core of business operations.  It happens, though, that voice calls can be intrusive at some times or that one can’t always be available to answer important business calls.

Therefore, Popfax.com has come up with a new “voice mail” feature for customers interested in reliable and innovative Unified Messaging Services, enriching its original Internet Fax service. The voice messaging service is a voice recorder associated with a Popfax account. It detects the type of call received, playing a personalized welcome message to voice calls, and then acts like an answering machine.  Messages are then forwarded by email or stored in the Popfax account on the Web.

Why does the Popfax.com voice mail option increase productivity? Just because it makes Popfax.com customers 100% reachable at any time:

1)      not only by fax but also by voice calls;

2)      without being disturbed by intrusive phone calls during meetings ;

3)      and without having to spend anything, the option is fully included in Popfax.com offer at no extra cost!

Vladimir Popesco, the founder and CEO of Popfax says: “Our team has the ambition to create new solutions and to improve the quality of communication for our customers beyond Internet fax services. We believe that unsolicited or unexpected voice calls have started to become very intrusive to many businessmen. Our clients now have a new filtering option at no extra cost. We keep being focused on our strategy of providing low cost, fully featured and always richer services.”