• March 29, 2005

Online ad tech developer United Virtualities yesterday said it launched a new ad-supported software product called HotRecorder that allows VoIP users to record their PC-based phone conversations.

Users of VoIP, who make phone calls over the Internet using one of several available services--AIM, Firefly, Net2Phone, Yahoo! Messenger, SKYPE--will be served advertisements every time they make a call. Ads are displayed within a dialogue window within a user's VoIP software.

With the free HotRecorder service, users will be able to record, store, and play back Internet phone calls. A premium paid version of HotRecorder is available without ad messages.

"HotRecorder rewards the user's time spent exposed to the ad message with helpful tools they might not otherwise have," Mookie Tenembaum, founder and CEO of United Virtualities, said in a statement.

-- Gavin O'Malley