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Fonix Corporation Selects Digital River to Provide E-Commerce Operations For Distribution of Consumer Applications
SALT LAKE CITY, March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fonix® Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: FONX - news), a leading provider of natural-user interface technology solutions for wireless and mobile devices, Internet and telephony systems, and vehicle telematics, announced that it has signed an e-commerce agreement with Digital River, Inc. (Nasdaq: DRIV - news). As part of the agreement, Digital River, a leading global e-commerce outsource provider, will manage and host the consumer e-commerce site located at www.fonix.com . The collaboration is expected to help Fonix reach a larger consumer market and generate greater awareness of its catalog of innovative products.
``In teaming up with Digital River, we are working with one of the best e-commerce outsource providers in the world,'' said Kirk Feller, vice president and general manager, Consumer Applications, Fonix Corporation. ``Customers will receive excellent customer service, an industry-leading uptime rate, and the ability to download Fonix products efficiently and directly from the new e-commerce site.''
The Fonix e-commerce site offers consumers Fonix speech recognition and text-to-speech products, including: iSpeak, a personal text reader that converts text to speech and reads it in a natural, human-sounding voice; TimeTalk Alert, the scheduling assistant that organizes and reads appointments and tasks from a Pocket PC; TimeTalk, a product for Pocket PCs that announces the current time at regular intervals or with a quick tap of a stylus; and Commander, the revolutionary speech recognition application that allows users of handheld devices to launch applications or tasks using voice commands.
``Digital River is pleased to be working with Fonix. We look forward to continue expanding our presence in the handheld and PC markets,'' Jay Kerutis, Digital River's president of Software and Digital Commerce Services, noted. ``As an e-commerce outsource provider, we take great care in managing and growing the e-commerce operations of innovative companies such as Fonix Corporation. We offer not only a world-class e-commerce infrastructure, but also access to our software publisher and retailer network, which is comprised of thousands of client sites, used for third-party marketing and selling of products.''
In addition to hosting and managing the new e-commerce site, Digital River will provide strategy development, transaction management, electronic software delivery, e-returns, 24-hour customer service, fraud prevention and e-marketing services.