GotVMail, The Entrepreneur's Phone System™, Named Finalist for Distinguished MITX 2008 Technology Award

GotVMail Communications LLC (http://gotvmail.com), The Entrepreneur's Phone System™, has been named a finalist in the 5th annual Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX) Technology Awards. The MITX What's Next Forum & Technology Awards recognize innovative technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and organizations responsible for driving these advancements. GotVMail will be recognized with the other finalists in the category of Enterprise Technologies at an awards ceremony attended by the region's top technology and business professionals. Winners will be announced at the ceremony at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Tuesday, June 3, 2008.

Needham, MA (PRWEB) May 9, 2008 -- GotVMail Communications LLC (http://gotvmail.com), The Entrepreneur's Phone System™, has been named a finalist in the 5th annual Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX) Technology Awards. The MITX What's Next Forum & Technology Awards recognize innovative technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and organizations responsible for driving these advancements.

The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) is the country's leading association bringing together digital marketing, media and technology professionals to engage in what's next for the web and how it impacts the marketing and business worlds.

GotVMail offers a Virtual Phone System that works just like a large company phone system, but is designed specifically for entrepreneurs. Customizable for one or more employees, GotVMail allows small businesses to stay connected and sound more professional to callers.

"When we founded this company, we wanted to offer a radically different kind of phone system that would allow entrepreneurs to always stay connected and enable their callers to reach them wherever they were and on any type of device, all at an affordable price," said Siamak Taghaddos, GotVMail's CEO and co-founder. "We are proud that the MITX has recognized GotVMail's entrepreneurial vision."

"GotVMail has helped transform the traditional call answering dynamic so that small businesses don't need expensive on-site hardware to sound like a large company, and we're honored to be acknowledged for this innovation," said David Hauser, GotVMail's chief technology officer and co-founder.

"In its fifth year, the MITX Technology Awards have attracted some of the most distinguished technological innovations that the region has to offer," said Kiki Mills, executive director of MITX. "It is this tremendous interest that enables our organization to accomplish its mission of uniting the brightest minds in the digital marketing, media and technology community and honoring their outstanding achievement."

GotVMail will be recognized with the other finalists in the category of Enterprise Technologies at an awards ceremony attended by the region's top technology and business professionals. Winners will be announced at the ceremony at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Tuesday, June 3, 2008. This year's keynote speaker and special honoree is Dr. Amar Bose, Chairman & Founder of Bose Corporation.

The ceremony is preceded by the What's Next Forum. The topic, Is Advertising the Model of the Future? will be a forward-looking discussion on whether online advertising is the winning model of the future for more than just content.

The MITX What's Next Forum & Technology Awards are sponsored by Backbone Media, DLA Piper, Invest Northern Ireland, LEWIS PR, Oracle and Technology Review.

About GotVMail
GotVMail's Virtual Phone System works just like large company phone systems, but is designed specifically for on-the-go entrepreneurs. Any small business can sound more professional and streamline its communications by creating a virtual office that connects callers to employees wherever they are, on any type of phone - home, office, VoIP, or mobile. Customizable for 1 or more employees, GotVMail requires no equipment to purchase, is easily managed online, and starts at only $9.95 a month. GotVMail - The Entrepreneur's Phone System. For more information, visit gotvmail.com

About MITX
Established in 1996, MITX---the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange is the leading industry organization focused on the web, bringing together the digital technology, marketing and media community to engage in what is next for the web and how it will impact the marketing and business worlds. Reaching more than 6,000 professionals in New England, MITX is a dynamic and growing community of thought leaders, collaborators, and individuals in search of insight, education and opportunity. With more than 60 events annually, MITX provides its members with the opportunity to promote their companies to targeted audiences and provides a valuable forum for networking to source potential business leads, partnerships, ideas, funding and other likeminded peers in the industry. MITX is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. For more information please go to www.mitx.org.

Erik Arvidson
GotVMail Communications
617.395.5700 Ext. 721
erik.arvidson@gotvmail.com

Jaime Hodges
MITX
617-871-2155 x205
jaime @ mitx.org

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