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Talkster Named Red Herring Canada Top 50 Company

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Talkster Named Red Herring Canada Top 50 Company

Red Herring Recognizes Talkster as one of the Most Promising and Innovative Technology Companies in the Country

MONT-TREMBLANT, QUEBEC and TORONTO, ONTARIO - September 29, 2008

Talkster (www.Talkster.com) has announced it won the Red Herring Canada Top 50 award, honoring the company as one of the fifty most innovative and promising privately held technology companies in Canada.
Talkster is the company bringing ad supported voice, text and image communications solutions to a global audience.
Talkster was among hundreds of companies across Canada nominated for this award.
Nominees were rigorously evaluated by Red Herring’s editorial staff on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy and integration into their ecosystem.
This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, allowing Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.
Talkster’s award winning voice technologies are revolutionizing ad-supported telephony with a fully sustainable mobile advertising supported business model which benefits both callers and advertisers.
Talkster’s Free World Dialing™ service for consumers is the only service for making long distance, international, and group conference calls from any type of phone, on any network, for the cost of a local call. The Talkster white-labeled service, Talkster Platform, brings instant mobile voice and text communications to online communities around the globe.

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Alex Vieux, CEO of Red Herring

“Red Herring recognized Talkster for its groundbreaking communications platform that lets the mobile phone serve as the communications hub for all of a person’s voice and text communications and contact lists. Talkster’s innovation, global availability and proven advertising-based business model makes its service compelling, viable and desirable for individuals and online communities all over the world. Talkster embodies the very innovation and promise Red Herring recognizes with our Top 50 Award.”

James Wanless, COO of Talkster

“While Talkster earned this award for services we already have available for consumers and online communities, we are even more excited about what we are going to be introducing in the months ahead. During our Red Herring presentation we previewed coming innovations from Talkster in the areas of user-generated mobile advertising, mobile presence, and unified voice and text messaging which were incredibly well received by the attending conference audience of leading technology executives and investors. Stay tuned to hear more from Talkster on these new innovations as we roll them out publicly in the coming months.”

About Talkster
Talkster’s award-winning technologies are revolutionizing voice, text and image communications. Talkster’s ad-supported approach brings free communications services that work on any phone to a global audience. Millions of calls have been placed using Talkster’s Free World Dialing™ consumer offering, and online communities are turning to Talkster for an easy plug and play revenue-generating solution that delivers voice and mobile services for their members. For more information visit Talkster on the Web at www.Talkster.com, from your mobile phone at http://free.talkster.com, or from your iPhone at http://i.talkster.com.

About Red Herring Canada
Red Herring Canada 2008 is an exclusive event, welcoming hundreds of technology leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, senior corporate executives, businesses, industry analysts, and observers from Canada and around the world.

About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology news service; technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. For more information, visit www.redherring.com.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Melissa Burns (Agency)
Mobility Public Relations
+1 208-946-4849 (office)
Email: talkster@mobilitypr.com
Web site: http://www.talkster.com
Blog: http://www.mobilityblogs.net/talkster
Shannon McCarthy (Agency)
Terpin Communications
+1 310-821-6100 x105 (office)
Email: redherring@terpin.com
Web site: http://www.herringevents.com/canada08/Canada50.html

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Talkster Brings Free International and Group Calling to Mexico

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Free Calls Year-Round From Any Phone

TORONTO, ONT – May 2, 2008

Talkster (www.Talkster.com) announced today it will launch its award-winning Free World Dialing™ service across the 14 most populous regions in Mexico, allowing people there and in over 30 other countries to place free long distance, international and group conference calls from any phone, using any network.
Talkster is launching this new service availability in Mexico just in time for Cinco de Mayo, the largest Mexican holiday celebration in the United States and Canada.
Now people all over the world can celebrate this Cinco de Mayo holiday by making unlimited calls to family and friends in Mexico using Talkster’s free, ad-supported calling service. With Talkster, callers listen to a brief 10-second audio advertisement and then can talk as long as they like without interruptions – all for the cost of a single local call.
People around the world are already using Talkster’s Free World Dialing service today by visiting
- www.Talkster.com on the Web,
- http://free.talkster.com from any mobile phone browser,
- http://i.talkster.com from an iPhone.
From any one of these sites, callers simply enter their name and phone number, along with the names and phone numbers of the person or persons they want to call. Talkster assigns free local Talkster numbers for each person or group of people a user wants to call. These new phone numbers can be saved in any address book or contact list and used every time a Talkster user wants to talk for free.

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James Wanless, Co-founder and COO

“Talkster is continuously expanding our service area to cover the globe and to meet the demand for cheaper international, group and long distance calls. We have received thousands of email requests expand our coverage area in Mexico, and we responded by covering nearly all of Mexico with our free calling services in advance of this year’s Cinco de Mayo holiday.”

“Today in the United States, calling card services have been addressing an ever-increasing need for affordable calling to and from Mexico. But the Talkster service differs from using a calling card in two important ways: first, our service is far easier to use from any phone without having to go out and buy a card, and second, Talkster’s Free World Dialing is always free, with no hidden charges. We don’t ever ask for a credit card number.”

About Talkster
Talkster’s award winning voice technologies are revolutionizing ad-supported telephony with a fully sustainable mobile advertising supported business model that benefits both callers and advertisers. Talkster’s Free World Dialing™ is the only service for making long distance, international, and group conference calls from any type of phone, on any network, for the cost of a local call. For more information visit Talkster on the Web at www.Talkster.com.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Melissa Burns (Agency)
Mobility Public Relations
208-946-4849 (office)
Email: talkster@mobilitypr.com
Web site: http://www.talkster.com
Blog: http://www.mobilityblogs.net/talkster

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Talkster Brings Free International and Group Calling to China

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Celebrate Chinese New Year with Free Calls Year-Round from any Phone

TORONTO, ONT – February 4, 2008

Celebrate this Chinese New Year by connecting with family and friends in China using the award-winning Talkster Free World Dialing, a free ad-supported calling service offering unlimited group and person-to-person calls.
Talkster announced today the immediate availability of country-wide coverage for Talkster’s Free World Dialing™ in China.
With this expansion into China Talkster is meeting the demands of callers making long distance, international and group conference calls to or from any fixed or mobile phone in China; all for the cost of a single local call.
One-fifth of the world’s population residing in China, innovative Voice 2.0 company.
With Talkster, callers listen to a brief 10-second audio advertisement, and then can talk as long as they like in more than 30 countries around the globe.
To complement this new service coverage, Talkster has also translated its service into Simple Chines, the form of written Chinese read in Mainland China.
Consumers wanting to use the Talkster service in Chinese can visit www.Talkster.cn.

How it Works:

People around the world are already using Talkster’s Free World Dialing service today by visiting
- www.Talkster.com on the Web,
- http://free.talkster.com from any mobile phone browser,
- http://i.talkster.com from an iPhone.
From any one of these sites, callers simply enter their name and phone number, along with the names and phone numbers of the person or persons they want to call.
Talkster assigns free local Talkster numbers for each person or group of people a user wants to call.
These new phone numbers can be saved in any address book or contact list and used every time a Talkster user wants to talk for free.

Win-Win for Advertisers:

Callers receive a valuable service for free while Talkster offers advertisers a unique way to access and target emerging markets with unique messages based on where users are calling from or calling to.
By adding service in China, Talkster is opening an important advertising channel to the world’s largest population.
Being able to target ads to callers based on singular or combined demographic data means advertisers reach the right people with their marketing messages, and callers receive valuable offers designed specifically for them.
When ads are targeted and relevant, consumers are more apt to view them as offers rather than intrusions.

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James Wanless, Talkster co-founder and COO

“Talkster is continuously expanding our service area to cover the globe and to meet the demand of the thousands of people who contact us each week looking for us to add access to their country. Talkster worked hard to blanket all of China with our service and get it up, tested and operational in advance of the Chinese New Year. Starting today Talkster can be used from any phone in China, mobile or fixed.”

“This is not some limited time promotional offer, or bait and switch deal for callers where it’s free now but will cost them later. This announcement means that with Talkster all international, long distance and group calls are always just the cost of a local call, and will remain this way with no strings attached.”

About Talkster
Talkster’s award winning voice technologies are revolutionizing ad-supported telephony with a fully sustainable mobile advertising supported business model which benefits both callers and advertisers. Talkster’s Free World Dialing™ is the only service for making long distance, international, and group conference calls from any type of phone, on any network, for the cost of a local call. For more information visit Talkster on the Web at www.Talkster.com, from your mobile phone at http://free.talkster.com, or from your iPhone at http://i.talkster.com.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Melissa Burns (Agency)
Mobility Public Relations
208-946-4849 (office)
melissakburns (skype)
Email: talkster@mobilitypr.com
Press kit: http://talkster.mobilitypr.com
Website: http://www.talkster.com
Blog: http://talkster.wordpress.com

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Free Talkster International and Group Conference Calls Just One Click Away with New iPhone Firmware Update

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Talkster’s iPhone-optimized service is now even easier to use with recent enhancements that let callers place the Talkster service icon on the main screen of their phones.

TORONTO, ONT — JANUARY 24, 2007

Now iPhone users have an even easier way to make free international, long-distance and group conference calls. With just a single click of an icon from the iPhone’s main screen, you can launch the Talkster service and begin making free calls to friends and family around the world. As always, once you’ve created a Talkster number for a friend or group of friends and saved it in your address book, you need only select them directly from your phone book to place the call.

Follow these easy steps to place the Talkster icon on your iPhone’s main screen:

Step One:
Connect your iPhone to iTunes and update the phone’s firmware to version 1.1.3 (or later).

Step Two:
Open the Safari web browser and surf to http://i.talkster.com.

Step Three:
Click on the new “+” symbol at the bottom of the screen. Once you do, you’ll be presented with three options:

Add Bookmark
Add to Home Screen
Mail Link to this Page

Step Four:
Click on “Add to Home Screen.” You’ll be shown the new Talkster iPhone icon and be able to give it a title (such as “Talkster”) to add to your iPhone’s main screen.

The new 1.1.3 firmware also lets you move the icon around the screen to place it in an order you like. You can find instructions on how to rearrange icons and use more of the new features now available for the iPhone by clicking here and here.

Step Five:
You can repeat steps two and three, but this time select “Mail Link to this Page” to share Talkster with your friends!

iPhone conference calls with Talkster
With traditional iPhone conference calling, the process can be tedious, increasing minute usage and frustration. Conference calls also require iPhone users to pay even higher costs for an international and long-distance connection. With Talkster, users can create a group of up to 5 people, generating a local number each participant in the call. This process is one-time only, and with the new Talkster icon for the iPhone, an easy way to keep in touch.

Ads foot the bill for free calls
Calls with Talkster are free because the service is ad-supported, meaning all calls are subsidized by advertising, much like television and radio. In order to access free long-distance, international, and group conference calling, users listen to a 10-second ad and then are free to talk as long as they like with no talk time limits.

Sign up now

Talkster has several sign-up options for users:

Visit www.Talkster.com from your computer
Visit http://free.talkster.com from any mobile phone browser, or
Visit Talkster’s iPhone optimized site at http://i.talkster.com
Add Talkster’s Free World Dialing Application on social networking site, Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=5439812969&ref=s

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Talkster COO James Wanless

“It doesn’t get any easier than click and talk. Placing the Talkster icon on your phone’s main screen gives you an even faster way to setup cost-free and hassle-free long distance, international and group conference calls.”

About Talkster
Talkster’s award winning voice technologies are changing international and long distance calling with a fully sustainable mobile advertising supported business model which benefits both callers and advertisers. Talkster’s Free World Dialing™ is the only service for making completely free long distance, international, and conference calls from any phone, on any network. With FREE international, long distance, and conference calling, who will you call? For more information on Talkster please visit www.Talkster.com.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Melissa Burns (Agency)
Mobility Public Relations
208-946-4849 (office)
melissakburns (skype)
Email: talkster@mobilitypr.com
Press kit: http://talkster.mobilitypr.com
Web site: http://www.talkster.com
Blog: http://talkster.wordpress.com

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Straight Talk from Talkster

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Answers to consumers’ burning questions about Talkster’s Free World Dialing™

TORONTO, ONT — NOVEMBER 3, 2007

Talkster’s Free World Dialing, the only service offering free long distance, international and group conference calls from any phone on any network, launched at CTIA last Monday where it won Laptop Magazine’s Best Overall Service Award amidst a lot of positive buzz. With many so-called “free” calling offers out there that actually cost money to use, the overwhelming first reaction from people who have tried Talkster’s Free World Dialing is that really free long distance, international and group calls without talk time limits are just too good to be true. Is it too good to be true? In the Q&A below Talkster directly addresses the most common questions being asked about its new service.

Is there a limit to the number of minutes I can talk?

No, there are no limits to the time you can talk for free using Talkster’s Free World Dialing. Listen to a single 10-second audio ad and talk as long as you like — to one friend or up to five people in a Talkster Groups™ call.

Will I ever pay to use Talkster?

All Talkster Free World Dialing calls are supported by advertising offers, so you never have to pay to talk to your friends around the world. We don’t take your credit card number or ask you to deposit money in any way. At Talkster, free actually means free. Completely free.

Is Talkster like “cheap” calling services such as Rebtel?

With Talkster there are no limits to the free talk time we offer – Talk as long as you like – for free. Free is a lot less expensive than “cheap.”
Talkster doesn’t require that you create an account, ask you for your credit card nor require you to share any personal information to use Free World Dialing, no matter how long you talk – other services do.
Talkster Groups lets you arrange conference calls so you can talk to groups of friends around the world for free, too! Your friends can be local or far away, and you will always have one number to reach this group of friends.
The Talkster service is ad-supported which means you not only get free calling but you also get the opportunity to opt-in for valuable offers and promotions you won’t find elsewhere
There is no bait and switch with Talkster. The same registration-free, no-cost service that we offer you the first time you use Talkster will be the service you can expect every time you place a call. We don’t entice you with a free trial offer then ask you to switch over to a paid service because with Talkster our service is always free.
You’ll be impressed with the quality of the calls, too. The networks on some “cheap” calling services make the calls sound like cheap calls. We’ve heard time and again how crystal clear our network is and how good the call quality is. If you don’t believe us, try it – after all, it won’t cost a thing to try Talkster.

Talkster’s Free World Dialing was created for people who have friends or family all over the world but are reluctant to call them because of the expense. Talkster has been in the business of cheap calling offers before, and we learned from our beta tests that people aren’t looking for just cheap calls. Based on the feedback we received in our beta test and from the international calling community, we designed Talkster’s Free World Dialing with a commitment to a fully sustainable ad-supported free calling business model.

Our competitors may offer some stuff for free, but in order to sustain their business model they must charge their users for other features, hoping that the paid service will offset the cost of their limited “free service.” Free offers that require a credit card are not consumer friendly, are they? And free services that produce no revenue for the company that provide them is hardly sustainable. When you think about it, Talkster doesn’t have a competitor in this space, at least not yet.

Why is the voice quality of the Talkster service so good?

Talkster calls go over the Talkster managed network, not a cheap low-quality VoIP circuit. While companies offering cheap VoIP calling are looking to drive the cost of the call as close to zero as possible, they end up sacrificing call quality. Because Talkster calls are placed over our own network, we manage the quality of the connection to ensure consistently reliable and high quality calls internationally, even for Talkster Groups calls placed from multiple locations around the world.

How many countries are supported by the Talkster service?

Talkster currently offers free calls to and from 29 countries with new countries being added weekly. Because at Talkster quality is important, we are expanding our network methodically. We expect to announce coverage expansion on a regular basis, including a forthcoming service feature that will extend the Talkster Free World Dialing capabilities to VoIP restricted countries in the Middle East, Caribbean and parts of South America. Stay tuned for that exciting announcement — coming soon!

What is the Talkster Facebook^® Application?

The Talkster Free World Dialing application inside Facebook gives callers one more place to create Talkster Groups conference calls and set-up and manage their Talkster contacts. It doesn’t matter how you invited your friend to talk with you on Talkster (whether from your computer, mobile phone or from your Facebook friends). All your Talkster numbers are automatically populated into your Facebook profile once you add our application. As an added benefit, the Talkster Free World Dialing application in Facebook allows you to call your Facebook friends while still maintaining the anonymity of your personal phone number.

What can we expect from Talkster in the future?

The revolutionary work taking place in Talkster’s labs continues at a breakneck pace.

Talkster’s history of innovation will continue and expand the reach of Free World Dialing even further. Remember, Talkster was the first company that let people place calls from mobile phones to instant messenger services like Yahoo, AOL, MSN and Google Talk – all services without phone numbers. You can be assured there are many exciting developments in store for Talkster users that will make staying in touch with friends – both near and far – easy, fun and always free.

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About Talkster
Talkster’s award winning voice technologies are revolutionizing international and long distance calling with a fully sustainable mobile advertising supported business model which benefits both callers and advertisers. Talkster’s Free World Dialing™ is the only service for making completely free long distance, international, and group conference calls from any phone, on any network, and is publicly available at www.Talkster.com, http://free.talkster.com and on Facebook^®. With FREE international, long distance, and Talkster Groups™ calls, who will you call? For more information on Talkster please visit www.Talkster.com.

Facebook^® is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Melissa Burns (Agency)
Mobility Public Relations
208-946-4849 (office)
melissakburns (skype)
Email: talkster@mobilitypr.com
Press kit: http://talkster.mobilitypr.com
Web site: http://www.talkster.com
Blog: http://talkster.wordpress.com

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Talkster Named Red Herring Canada Top 50 Company

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