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A quick post to let you know we’ve been selected as UIQ’s Application of the Month for May.

A big honor for us and big thanks to the guys and gals at UIQ – we appreciate the recognition and your help in spreading fring love to UIQ users!

We’re tingling with excitement at fring having just picked up this year’s Handset Application Award at the Meffy’s (think the Oscar’s of mobile content, but without the posh frocks, designer jewelry, and Halle Berry tears!) The award was gratefully accepted on behalf of the whole fring team by our very own Ben Eaton, fring’s Business Development Manager, at a glitzy Gala dinner and award ceremony hosted by popular TV presenter and Gadget Show guru Suzi Perry in Cannes, on the French Riviera, Thursday evening (tough job Ben, but someone had to do it!)Rimma Perelmuter, MEF Executive Director, said “Above all, the companies selected by the Meffys judges clearly focused on putting the consumer first” – this brought the biggest smile to our face as it’s the one thing we work hardest at and we hope all you fringsters agree with Rimma!

The Meffy’s girls and guys reviewed over 200 awards submissions, from 21 countries worldwide, and we are really thrilled to have added a Meffy to our trophy cabinet, proving that the fring love continues to spread around the world!

iPhone users head’s up! thanks to your feedback we have started ‘ironing out’ bugs in the fring for iPhone pre release version.

There is a new version for you to play with (version 0.9785) which addresses the following:

1. Issues resulting in deleted SMS (additional QA work on our side still in progress)
2. mVoIP calls on 1.1.2 are now fully supported.
3. Incoming SIP calls are also available with this new version

Important: to update your fring version DO NOT uninstall current version (well you can, but then you will need to retype your fring login information) Simply go to the ‘installer’ and get the updated fring version from the ‘updates’ section.

Again, your feedback, suggestions and insights on the product are a huge help, and are truly influencing the R&D process, and helping us in improving fring for iPhone.

So thanks and keep them coming

fringsters it’s once again time for the glitz and glamor of one of the mobile world’s most prestigious award ceremonies, the Meffys. The Meffy awards are like an equivalent of the Oscars, only without the posh dresses and the red carpet! The Meffys honor the most influential mobile entertainment players from around the world and this year we’re proud to announce that fring has been nominated along with 4 other outstanding companies in the Handset Application Award category.

The winners of this prestigious award will be announced at the Meffys gala dinner on 8 May 2008 at the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, France.
fring is excited to be among the top players in the industry and we are looking forward to this event. In the spirit of good gamesmanship, we wish our fellow competitors well and may the best fring win this prestigious award!

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OK. So if you’re one of the first lucky *#@$%&s to get your hands on an iPhone, you just got even luckier. We’ve just made a special pre-release R&D version of fring for your iPhone - a mobile VoIP app publicly available for the iPhone?…yep that’s a world-first!

This special pre-release version of fring, developed in conjunction with the Holon Institute of Technology academic research labs is a direct response to iPhone users kicking our behind to get fring for their COOOOOL devices. Part of the objective here (besides getting you all excited with fring for iPhone) is to get feedback prior to release of the full-feature version and create a truly superb user experience for iPhone users. So feel free to let us know what you think (…and be as honest as you like – we can take it! )
More info on what you get and how to get it at the fringcubator (fring lab).
…it’s fringing iPhone freedom!

Simple, Short & Sweet: hand in hand with SwissCom… SwissCom LAB users can now go mobile with fring, and being SwissCom lab users, even the mobile internet charge don’t exist when using fring. So talk, chat, interact (and even yodel ) with fring on SwissCom and get a full & rich internet experience on your mobile.

As of this weekend, all you fans of SwissCom’s lab (if you’re not signed up to the SwissCom lab, you can do so here) get fring from here and take your buddies mobile.

You know we like to spread the fring love worldwide, right? Well this week, fring does Vegas! No not the tables or the slots, but just as exciting, it’s CTIA, one of the most important gigs in the mobile calendar.

Boaz Zilberman, founder and chief architect of fring and Dan Atzmon, Business Development Director, will be at CTIA in Las Vegas from April 1st to April 3rd. The guys have been invited to demonstrate at the Symbian booth (thank you folks at Symbian!) so if you’re visiting, please feel free to come and say hi.

fringing all over the world with boingo mobile

We’ll be announcing at CTIA a brand new partnership between fring and boingo, allowing boingo mobile users to talk, chat & interact and enjoy their own fringing freedom.

boingo mobile puts Wi-Fi in the palm of your hand, allowing you to use your Wi-Fi enabled handset to browse the Internet at over 60,000 boingo hotspot locations worldwide. With a boingo mobile account and fring you’ll now be able to whip out your phone at a boingo hotspot, and talk, do live chat and swap files with your favorite online buddies straight from your handset over boingo’s blazingly fast WiFi mobile internet connection.

And, if you already have a boingo mobile account or have visited and logged into one of boingo’s hotspots before, fring’s clever auto-roaming feature will recognize next time you’re within range of any other boingo hotspot and log you in automatically using your previous log-in details. What could be easier!

Start enjoying your very own fringing freedom with boingo mobile today !

Jim Higdon recently posted an article about the most useful and free online phones services on the net. Remembering when everything on the internet used to be free he goes on to show that today many great service are still free, Jim actually took the time to compile a list of the 102 best free phone services on the net.

fring is mentioned in the top 5 and for this we are very proud.
fringsters wishing to see the full list can follow Jim’s article here.

Improved Security with new mobile iris recognition software eyefringTM

fring has just incorporated a cool new security feature for your mobile device using Iris Recognition software similar to that recently deployed by passport agencies, airports, and other secure institutions. eyefringTM helps fringsters maximize the security of personal data stored on their mobile phone and given out over the mobile internet.

eyefringTM uses the Global Network Iris Recognition Feature protocol (GNIRF) enabling you to replace your normal login credentials of user name and password, with a digital image of the user’s iris, stored on the phone.

To register and get more information on the benefits of using eyefring^TM, simply follow the following three steps:-

Step 1: Take a clear photograph of one eye (either eye) with a phone camera or regular digital camera.

Ensure the image of the entire eye fills the frame & remains within the border of the photograph.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Disable flash on camera or phone as this will produce Red Eye distortion which the software will automatically reject.

Step 2: Email the digital image to iris@fring.com Please include your fring nick name and mobile telephone number (including international dial code) in the body copy of your email.

Step 3: Within 48 hours you will receive an SMS giving instructions on how to download the new eyefring^TM feature for fring. Click on the link as usual to install then go to Privacy Settings and click Enable Iris Recognition.

From time to time, the eyefring^TM software will prompt you for an iris picture using your phone camera, and automatically check its database for a security match.

You will be able to use these images for online transactions with thousands of online retail sites worldwide who are expected to integrate the GNIRF protocol and technology into their billing systems - just another example of fring helping its users to enjoy a little more fringing freedom!

Look forward to eyeing you up soon!