Theconvenient pay-per-use billing is also currently available for phone minutesto the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, UK and Israel. “ooVoo continuously strives to become the most affordable and dependable highquality, easy-to-use internet-based video communication experience, whether athome or work,” said Philippe Schwartz, CEO of ooVoo. “With our new businessplan we’ve made our services even more appealing to those looking for analternative to expensive, high-tech video conferencing services.”With desktop sharing, ooVoo business users can now provide their videoconference participants instant access to their presentations or documentswhile they continue to converse face-to-face which all keeps business runningsmoothly. Like ooVoo for consumers, business users can also share files, textchat, send video messages, record conversations, experience high definitionvideo quality and more.Unlike systems tied to conference room set ups orhigh-tech equipment, business users — whether in a remote hotel room, in anairport or working from a home office. ooVoo goes anywhere to make sure workcontinues unhindered and quality face time with important clients and partnersnever suffers.

ooVoo promises no more stalled calls and long silences as aparticipant fumbles to open up an email attachment.To further enhance the ooVoo video conferencing experience the business planeliminates banner advertisements from all video conversations for planpurchasers and anyone they invite to join a call. ooVoo’s business plan, at$39.95 a month, costs a fraction of the cost of just one business trip andallows unlimited video conferences with up to six locations at one time — andup to twelve locations when an additional six are conferenced in with thephone feature. With the ability to add seats to a plan for a nominal fee,everyone in the office can be set up with their own ooVoo user name to connectface-to-face with co-workers, distributed work teams and clients. ooVoo remains the most robust cross platform multi-point internet-based videocommunication solution. With more price flexibility and pay-as-you-go options,ooVoo offers incredible value at an affordable price to consumers andbusinesses.

Its popular Web Call Link to video connect friends that haven’tdownloaded ooVoo and the ability to easily embed video chat rooms into blogsor web sites, make ooVoo available to everyone, anywhere in the world. About ooVoo ooVoo provides a high-quality webcam video chat and communication service thatdelivers a meaningful way for people to call and connect over the Internet.ooVoo’s technology enables people to experience a face-to-face conversationand share a full range of emotions as if they are in the same room together,whether they are across the street or across the globe. ooVoo’s superiorquality video and audio are available to anyone with a computer, broadbandconnection and a web camera, for real-time video calls with up to six friends,relatives and colleagues simultaneously. “The Project is a clinically efficaciousresponse that directly advances our mission of helping people self-managemental illness.”Improvement in the self-management skills of mental health clients livingin the community supports their empowerment to move toward moreindependent living. This training program is madeurgent by already announced and looming cuts in San Francisco’s PublicHealth budget.”With psycho-social rehabilitation at the bottom of the City priorities,the impending cuts will result in massive service reductions to thoseliving with chronic mental illness,” said Richard Heasley, ExecutiveDirector of Conard House.

Each of the 2,100 clientsthat Conard House serves annually participates in at least one of theseclient-empowering services — all designed to help them reduce theirsymptoms, find healthy pathways to recovery and promote long-termindependent living.”Conard House is catalyzing change in community mental health,” said JohnBlum, Principal Manager, Margoes Foundation.With the grant, Conard House will develop a self-management trainingcurriculum for chronic mental illnesses. SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jul 20 (MARKET WIRE) — Conard House, a pioneering nonprofit organization developing resources tohelp people self-manage mental illness since 1960, announced today thatit has received a $25,000 grant from the Margoes Foundation to helpdevelop and field-test a self-management training curriculum for peoplewith chronic mental illness living in the community, along with theirproviders.Conard House offers a number of innovative programs in the San Franciscoarea, such as Residential Treatment, Supportive Housing, SupportiveEmployment, Money Management and Harm Reduction. For more information please see http:// is a registered trademark of McNeil pharmaceutical, Inc.For media enquiries, please contact:Joe Noel(925) 922-2560Copyright 2009, Market Wire, All rights reserved.-0-. It is a very excitingtime for us as we prepare to release additional clinical data and fileadditional FDA applications.”Last week the company was the subject of two NBC news stories with anadditional report on FOX News.