Move Over E-mail, Here Come 'Pixetells'

By Chris Kanaracus, Mar 2, 2009

A Portland, Oregon, startup called Ontier is set on Monday to unveil Pixetell, communication software that combines text, video, images and audio in a single message. Regular e-mail, especially for complicated discussions, can be tedious, with many messages going back and forth before a problem gets solved, said CEO Sebastian Rapport, who will demonstrate Pixetell at the DEMO conference in Palm Desert, California. Web conferences have their own limitations as well, since they can be hard to schedule, especially for distributed teams, he said. "At awkward hours, you can't get it done." Pixetell, meanwhile, "sits somewhere between e-mail and Web conferencing," he said.

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