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Raketu Introduces LaunchPad Version 2.0 Desktop Interface Which Integrates VoIP Calling, ipTV Streamed TV Content, Video On Demand, and IM/SMS

New Features Include Enhanced Social Networking And Detached TV-Like Remote Control For ipTV Channel Changing And Easy Access To Raketu Services

October 09, 2007 03:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Raketu Communications Inc., the global Internet communications, information and entertainment company, today introduced LaunchPad Version2.0, the upgrade to its LaunchPad desktop application. Raketu’s LaunchPad interface is the first to integrate voice-over IP (VoIP) calling, ipTV streamed television content, Video On Demand (VOD), and IM/SMS service in a single, easy-to-navigate desktop application. New features include enhanced Social Networking capabilities and a detached TV-like remote control, which offers one-click ipTV streamed channel changing and easy access to Raketu services like VoIP calling.

“Our new interface offers Raketu users a more flexible, easy-to-use application from which they can access not only the cost-effective communications services they rely on and use every day, but new entertainment services like live concerts, on demand movies, and even karaoke,” said Greg Parker, President of Raketu.

LaunchPad Version2.0 Features

Raketu runs over any Internet connection. Anyone with an Internet connection and a PC can start using Raketu immediately. Through Raketu’s new LaunchPad Version2.0 interface, users have access to Raketu’s p2p communications services and entertainment services including streamed ipTV and VOD content from around the world from a single integrated application. Along with a new user-friendly interface which allows users more control of the information they receive and the way in which they display it, Raketu’s LaunchPad Version 2.0 features:

Enhanced Social Networking Features, which make it easier to post and find/navigate user profiles, share pictures, and participate in discussion threads.

More Communications Options, Version2.0 adds the ability to make Rakweb calls (phone-to-phone calls) along with RakRak calls (Raketu user to Raketu user) and Rakout calls (Raketu to landline or mobile phone calls).

Streamlined Entertainment, Version2.0 features an updated built-in media player and new p2pTV interface and listings

New Detached TV Like Remote Control, allows users to control the Raketu embedded player, which streams p2pTV directly into the Raketu client application. Users can use the remote to change ipTV streamed television channels, and make Rakweb and Rakout VoIP calls.

Available for download immediately from Raketu.com, Raketu’s LaunchPad Version2.0 is compatible with Windows and Vista. Mac, Linux, and Mobile Windows versions will be released later this fall.

About Raketu Communications Inc.

Raketu Communications Inc. is developing leading edge peer-to-peer Internet protocol applications that provide communications, information and media services for consumers and for business. The company currently has users in over 150 countries around the world. For more information visit the company’s website at www.Raketu.com.

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