Raketu introduces its LaunchPad interface, the first to integrate VoIP, ipTV streaming video, Video On Demand, and IM/SMS service in a single, easy-to-navigate desktop application. Other Raketu services including podcasting, media player, and news/information feeds will also be accessible via their new LaunchPad interface. In addition, Raketu also introduced the first ever Global Chat capabilities around ipTV streaming, allowing thousands of consumers to chat simultaneously in a real-time, dynamic ipTV channel chat room, as they watch the same channel.

“We currently have over a million consumers using our VoIP, ipTV streaming video and other services globally,” said Greg Parker, President of Raketu. “We wanted to give them a single interface where they could interface directly to all their VoIP calling, IM/SMS exchanges, and ipTV streaming video viewing in a single application/service, while creating a global chat area where friends, family, and other Raketu service subscribers could have real-time interaction around the streaming video programs they are watching.”

Raketu Technical Features

Through Raketu’s new LaunchPad interface, users are able to watch ipTV streaming video and VOD content from around the world while interacting with each other through Raketu’s VoIP and other peer-to-peer communications services, from a single integrated application.

Raketu uses a unique peer-to-peer technology, which allows the highest quality VoIP calling and the highest VoIP call-completion without the security issues associated with supernodes and other traditional VoIP services/p2p technologies. Specifically, Raketu does not use a consumer’s computer for routing the VoIP communications of other users.

Raketu VoIP and ipTV streaming video service runs over any Internet connection. Anyone on the Internet with a Windows PC and a headset can start using Raketu's VoIP, ipTV streaming video, and other services immediately. Currently, all pre-paid customers of Raketu’s RakOut dial-out VoIP services enjoy free VoIP calling to over 40 countries. All VoIP calls to locations in these countries are free regardless of where the VoIP calls originate.

Raketu offers streaming video ipTV content from Media Global Intertainment, which includes exclusive content seen on the syndicated hit TV music video program Fearless Music and NamcheTV, a sports/adventure channel from the Czech Republic. Raketu’s VOD content includes pay-for Sports, Horror, Extreme Wrestling, Brazilian Models, Soccer Highlights, Extreme Sports Brazil, Medical Minutes, and other entertainment.

Raketu’s new LaunchPad interface integrating VoIP, ipTV streaming video and other services is available for download immediately from http://www.Raketu.tv/, or alternatively http://www.Raketu.com/, and can be used in both Windows and Vista operating environments. Support for Macintosh is planned for Q2’07.