Who says there's no new guys in the VoIP market? A Skype-competitor with a goofball name has been popping up recently with an iPhone app a month ago, and now a Beta release of the newest interation of their service billed as a unified communications suite. Goober 3.0 hopes to offer all the services one might expect from a unified communications (UC) offering in a play to take a chunk of customers in the Skype space--even competing in the Skype for Business side.

What's most impressive about the latest version of Goober's application is that it offers HD VoIP calling to landlines and cell phones and multi-users. Global IP Solutions is powering the Goober HD voice with its GIPS VoiceEngine and GIPS VideoEngine. The service will also offer 6-way HD video conferencing calls to PCs and Macs although the current Beta supports 4-way. Not to be outdone, the service also offers the aforementioned iPhone/iPad VoIP calling and integration as well as cross platform communications with a number of chat clients. The whole service is a simple software download and pricing is based on a flat-rate with calls in the U.S. and Canada priced at one cent a minute.

With this latest release, the startup seems to be repositioning itself to target more business customers by showing off its UC capabilities and premium HD voice and video calls.

For more:
- read the release
- see this PCWorld story

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Goober Networks, a Unified Communications provider, announced goober 3.0 as a public beta, a new collaboration solution that includes multi-protocol instant messaging, HD Voice to landlines and cell phones and 6-way video conferencing calls to PCs including Windows and Macintosh.

A new VoIP app for the iPhone offers free calling for the first two minutes of its VoIP calls. The service charges flat rates that start at $6 and the first two minutes of each call are credited back to a user's account after the call.

The Goober VoIP app will have to try hard to differentiate itself from the numerour other VoIP apps that have flooded the iPhone since AT&T and Apple lifted the ban on the use of the 3G network for VoIP. With its release, the company came out swinging against its biggest competitors claiming to have comparable and even lower rates than Skype. The one feature that Skype still has over Goober, though, is its free Skype-to-Skype calls. Goober officials claim that such a feature might be a possibility with a future release.

For more:
- read the PC World story

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