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We’re updating our Hold Music here at CallFire!

We have always offered selections of music from the Open Source community, and we are pleased to be updating our selections.

This month we are featuring new classical music from some exciting performers. We have two Beethoven sonatas: the “Appassionata,” Op. 57 No. 23, performed by Andreas Haefliger, and the “Waldstein,” Op. 53 No. 22 performed by Daniel Veesey.

In addition, we have several selections featuring the US Air Force orchestra, including Bach’s”Air on a G String”, Holst’s “Mars, the Bringer of War” from his orchestral suite The Planets, two selections from Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, and a couple of violin concerti including Beethoven’s D Minor Concerto, and “Winter” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with John Harrison on violin.

We round the selections out with two more beautiful piano works, Chopin’s brilliant “G Minor Ballade” No.1 Op. 23 as performed by Donald Betts, and Handel’s “Suite No. 2″, wonderfully performed by Ivan Ilic.

These works are from the open music web site musopen.com. Please support these musicians, the musopen.com web site, and the entire open source music community with your contributions and donations.

Today, CallFire is announcing a new developer challenge.  The contest is to use any of CallFire’s APIs to develop a dating application, and the winner will win an new Amazon Kindle.  VP Buisness Development, TJ Thinakaran speaks to welcome all developers to the challenge:

Here are the details:

The application will be due Wednesday 11/11 at 5 PM Pacific time.  Applications should be submitted here. You must read the rules and regulations outlined here. The best resource for accessing the APIs is the CallFire Developer Wiki. Contact support@callfire.com if you have any questions or need assistance.

As you’ve probably noticed if you read this blog regularly, CallFire can serve various industries and niches.  One of these that have been quite successful is as an Emergency Notification service.

Here’s a few ideas of scenarios in which CallFire can help:

1. Notify residents of possible floods or national disasters.
2. Announce shelter location or food handouts in the case of an evacuation
3. Public health threats
4. Extended utility interruption
5. Missing children or other police related incidents
6. Snow/Hail/Tornado/Hurricane or other weather warnings

CallFire is both reliable and affordable in these circumstances, and can be configured to reach up to 100,000 phones per hour.  It is a great solution for reaching entire cities, or communities and getting a message out FAST!

For more info, email info@callfire.com

CallFire’s Emergency page

1. Send out automated reminder message to patients that are due to schedule appointments using Voice Broadcast
2. Send out an automated message to patients on a wait list when an appointment has been cancelled and a spot opens up using Voice Broadcast.
3. Check up with patients that have just had medical treatment using the Cloud Call Center.
4. Create organ donation awareness using either the Cloud Call Center or Voice Broadcast
5. Send out surveys to patients using an Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

To learn more about how CallFire can be used in healthcare, click here

Video: CallFire CEO, Dinesh Ravishanker, briefly discusses the impact of SIP and XMPP standards on CallFire customers and unified voice communications as a whole. Google Voice, Gizmo5, AIM, Grasshopper and others are mentioned within the talk.

Youtube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwxd18fF-Dg