Goober goes for the HD and UC market

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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