Cloudvox Launches Free API, Bookmarklet and Web Service for Finding the Location of any Phone Number

SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Ifbyphone's Cloudvox service today unveiled digits.cloudvox.com, a Web service that makes phone number assignment information available to anyone, for free.

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Cloudvox's Digits API provides the city, state, telecom carrier, date of first use and neighborhood associated with a phone number - making it easy to display this data anywhere that a phone number is published online. The bookmarklet allows any Web user to highlight a phone number in their browser, click and learn where that number is located. Using the Web service, anyone can quickly access information about a phone number by appending it to the Web URL; for example, http://digits.cloudvox.com/2066831234.

"Our customers wanted to consider caller location in their phone apps, so we developed a service to provide free phone location data, and made it available to everyone," said Troy Davis, Director of Cloudvox Services at Ifbyphone.

Cloudvox designed the Digits API for integration into other apps, helping businesses and developers present more information about, and draw conclusions from, phone numbers. For example:

• CRM or address book services could add city and state fields to address book entries where the user had only a phone number
• iPhone or iPad apps could display an inline map and location-based advertising, rather than just a phone number
• Restaurant chains could route every call to the nearest restaurant based on the caller's geographic location
• Interactive voice response (IVR) systems could adapt to a caller's most likely time zone, adjusting prompts and call flow

The service is already in use by groupware and collaboration Web applications, sales lead tracking and CRM Web sites and social network phone apps. The Digits REST API can be used from any programming language. Example code is available in PHP, Ruby, and JavaScript.

"We're all used to seeing phone numbers alone, without any augmented information, because until now, phone number data has been unnecessarily hard for developers to access," Davis said. "This service makes it easy, and shows how committed we are to powerful, and ridiculously simple, phone applications."

The service will be demonstrated today at the eComm, the Emerging Communications Conference.

Developers can learn more about Cloudvox's open phone call API and Asterisk hosting service at www.cloudvox.com.

Businesses interested in phone applications, including web-configured IVR, Voice Broadcasting, Virtual Call Center and Call Tracking, can learn more at www.ifbyphone.com.

About Ifbyphone

Ifbyphone is a leading Cloud Telephony company providing businesses a suite of phone automation services to enhance customer communications, increase sales, and lower costs. With Ifbyphone's easy-to-use hosted services and tools, marketers, developers and business users can quickly create telephony systems to drive customer retention and acquisition. Through its Cloudvox service, developers and entrepreneurs can create their own Asterisk-compatible apps in any programming language or simple HTTP. For more information, visit www.ifbyphone.com.

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