Sports website, Sportal.com has reached an agreement with the Voice Commerce Group to deploy its WhitePhone and CastAlive technology, which will be used to promote the broadcast of a World Cup Group 2 warm up match on Tuesday 28th February.

Sportal.com becomes the first sports content publisher to take advantage of the WhitePhone Desktop VoIP based technology to offer its web site visitors a unique online communications experience. Sportal.com now provides a fully branded, VoIP-enabled service called Sportaltalk that offers a unique range of interactive content and internet telephony services including:

Video Casts and access to live sports events
Free PC-to-PC calls
Low cost phone calls to any phone globally
Video and Voice messaging to allow Sportaltalk customers to share and talk about the sports they enjoy even while the events are on

Sportal.com has also become the first customer to use the Voice Commerce CastAlive Technology to broadcast a video announcement across the whole WhitePhone Network – 200 countries worldwide. The video announcement promotes a unique and exclusive live IPTV broadcast of the World Cup warm up match between Trinidad & Tobago and Iceland at Loftus Road, home of Queens Park Rangers, at 8pm on Tuesday 28th February. The game can be viewed on Sportal.com and through the WhitePhone Desktop.

The Voice Commerce Group predicts that many website publishers will start to change to incorporate integrated voice and video technologies linked to desktop applications that are appropriate to consumers or business users. Voice commerce provides the tools that enable any e-business to voice enable its website, offering their customers a dynamic new online experience, designed to simply mirror the way in which we all interact in our normal lives.