PamFax 3.4 upgrade planned for May 25th

We are going to release an upgrade to the PamFax servers tomorrow. We will be mainly addressing performance issues and fixing minor bugs.

Our servers will be upgraded on May 25th between 8:00 – 9:00 GMT+2. During the upgrade process the PamFax system will not be available. We plan to have a downtime of maximum 30-45 minutes.

If you have any critical fax jobs you need to get done please be aware of the planned maintenance.

Scendix announces new partnership with kalmstrom.com Business Solutions in Sweden and Estonia

Today Scendix Software announces a new partnership with kalmstrom.com Business Solutions.

kalmstrom.com Business Solutions has become our partner for Sweden and Estonia focusing on marketing and sales introduction of our PamFax offering. In addition kalmstrom.com will maintain our product translations for Swedish and Estonian.

“PamFax has been increasingly popular during its five years on the market, and today the tool is used by both individuals and big companies all over the world. It will be great to cooperate with the creators of PamFax in making faxing easier for still more people.” says kalmstrom.com CEO Peter Kalmstrom.

kalmstrom.com Business Solutions is the brand for software from the Swedish family business Tallstugans förlag HB. Owners of Tallstugan are Kate, Sigge and Peter Kalmstrom. They normally do not market other products than their own, but kalmstrom.com CEO Peter worked as Product Manager for Skype when he saw PamFax and was very impressed with the quality of the service.

More information about kalmstrom.com Business Solutions on their website: kalmstrom.com

Microsoft acquires Skype

Today Microsoft announced the acquisition of Skype, what does this mean for our company, our products, our developers and our users?

At the moment we can’t fully say what will happen over time, but as Skype will become a separate and independent business division in Microsoft we expect to see many synergies. We have been closely working with Skype since 2004 and we´re optimistic to further expand and broaden our relationship once Skype is a division of Microsoft.

Our Skype products like Pamela for Skype and mcePhone will continue to work and we will continue to keep a close relationship with Skype for further development.

Our PamFax product originally was very tightly integrated with Skype. After Skype discontinued the partner access to Skype Credit, we removed the tight Skype dependency. Today PamFax is used by Skype and non-Skype users alike.

We will keep you posted as this evolves.

Read the announcement on the Microsoft News Center here.

 

FINARX Fax adds the ability to fax to your iPhone via PamFax

Since 2008, FINARX is focusing on the development of mobile business applications on the iOS and Android platforms and especially for customers in the financial sector. In addition to individual development of customized solutions FINARX distributes own mobile applications.

The most successful product of FINARX is a solution for mobile scanning of documents, a time tracking solution for freelancers and small businesses as well as a solution for mobile faxing of scanned documents, or written texts.

FINARX Fax adds the ability to fax to your iPhone. Technically, the faxing works via the internet based fax service PamFax which has been integrated into the FINARX application.

Like from an ordinary fax machine you now can send text documents, photos and other documents with your iPhone & Android phone to any fax number – select a photo from your camera roll or take with your iPhone camera a new picture of any original.

The integrated image processing in FINARX Fax will “clean up” the image and converts it in a black and white document to get an optimal fax result.

List of main features:

  • Fax paper-based documents.
  • Fax PDF documents from your web based file store like Dropbox, iDisk, Google Docs & Box.net.
  • Fax MS Office fax documents.
  • Save fax documents on your web based file store or send them as e-mail.

Click here for more information on FINARX.

New hire, Michaela Hoffmann joins the team as Marketing Manager

I’m proud to announce that Michaela Hoffmann has joined our team as of today.

Michaela will be responsible for online- and product marketing at PamConsult. She will focus on our key products and brands being PamFax, Pamela for Skype, Jaast and Tapirex and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Michaela has been in IT  Event-  and communication marketing since 1997 . She has worked for international companies like Network Associates, Visio and Microsoft. Since 2000 she extended her experience in direct marketing activities, product marketing for Microsoft Visio, MapPoint and with PR and Media Planning for Exit Games, Hamburg.

Welcome to the team!

Mandatory updates PamFax iPhone and Android

We have recently released updated versions of PamFax for iPhone (v1.0.1) and Android (v2.0.2). Please note that we have disabled the access to our system from older versions due to changes in the server backend.

So, if you have not yet updated to the latest PamFax version for iPhone or Android you should do so before using PamFax. PamFax can be easily updated directly from your iPhone or Android device.

PamFax updated

We just released a PamFax update. This is an “increase performance and fix minor issues” update. We fixed some issues with the PamFax API, improved the processing of larger fax quantities and ironed out minor annoyances.

If you have PamFax installed on your computer there is no update required as all changes are on the servers.

For our next release we will focus on adding new and exciting features :) .

Apologies for the short outage as we did the update today. We hope you like the improved performance and as always welcome your feedback.

Long awaited “Skype for Salesforce” update available

It has been a few years since we last updated the Skype for Salesforce solution.

This free Skype application provides seamless Skype integration into Salesforce application.

Skype for Salesforce offers you full Skype functionality in your Salesforce screen. You will see the online status of your Skype contacts, you will be able to call them with one click and also receive calls. For received calls with caller ID, Salesforce automatically retrieves the record of that person so you are prepared when you take the call.

You may also import your Skype contact list. This allows for easy Skype calling from Salesforce.

Conference calls are also supported and allow you to easily, directly from Salesforce, start a conference call with a few clicks.

New in the 2.1 version are

  • Support for Firefox browser added
  • Skype call transfer support added

Besides we fixed several technical issues which appeared over time.

More information and download on AppExchange at Salesforce.com.

We hope you enjoy the update and as always appreciate your feedback.

PamFax website supports IE9 pinning feature

We have updated the PamFax website to support the pinning feature available in the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 release (scheduled March 14, 2011).

‘Pinning’ is a new feature in Internet Explorer 9 for Windows 7 that allows web developers to create additional features straight into the Windows 7 superbar. Windows 7 users can pin sites to the superbar and easily access their favorite sites. Web developers can also include notification features and contextual menus.

Above you can see the links set by the PamFax website – you will be able to access the key functions directly from the Windows 7 superbar.

The home page will also look more customized with our logo in the top and adapted color schema.

 

PamFax for iPhone

Yes, finally here it is – PamFax for iPhone.

Based on the same, easy to use workflow as in our Android application we are proud to present the iPhone version of PamFax.

Click here for information and download on iTunes App Store.

Download is free, use your existing PamFax user name to login.