In these times of economical trouble in Spain which are getting a lot of companies to develop plan to establish abroad or export their products and services to foreign countries in order to be able to survive, Almira Labs has become one of the 7.500 PIPE national companies. This internationalization program is organized and leaded by ICEX (Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade) and the Spanish Council of Trade Chambers. It also has the collaboration of the Autonomous Governments in Spain and their regional chambers. Its main goal is to support and advice Spanish companies in their establishment abroad.

Almira Labs already has access to financial tools and services of the ICEX and PIPE professionals which are a great help to know the procedures and bureaucracy needed in every country to establish the company. Additionally, we can also benefit from financial support for foreign promotion activities such as shows, exhibitions and business travels.

We are very grateful to all ICEX and PIPE professionals who are working with us and are being a huge help in our current relations with other countries.

As Almira Labs is making its mark within the Spanish R&D sector as specialists in developing platform-independent Telco software with a focus on voice-based services, we are thrilled to share our expert knowledge also on this year’s IT EXPO East in Miami, Florida, which takes place from January 31st through February 3rd, 2012 the Miami Beach Convention Centre.

Our CEO,  Javier Martin, will speak at the 1st February, at noon, about “The Next Step in Social Media Evolution: Social Media Response Management” where he will discuss how expectations of social media are changing as its use grows exponentially. Followed by a panel forum he will focus on the ability for businesses and consumers to use social media in a more comprehensive and efficient manner.

Almira Labs’ latest product launch of Voice2Social is a service specially dedicated for easier use of Social Networks. It allows user to publish their own voice messages without any delay in their Facebook or Twitter profile by a simple local phone call from wherever they are and without any internet connection. This innovative service is released in Vodafone Spain and ready to use for every of their clients.

Divulging already in advance some of Javier Martin’s presentation insides “We are witnessing a paradigm shift in the way we communicate since Millions of us get our news, share our experiences, send messages, and receive feedback from social media first. Two-way communication within this new medium must be managed, and managed well”.

As an internationally renowned educational event for resellers, enterprises, SMBs, and Government Agencies, the IT EXPO provides an excellent forum to discover new added values of IP-based voice, video, fax, and unified communications.

We are looking forward to meet you on the IT EXPO EAST in person, and if you can’t pass by check out soon this Blog again or following our Twitter account @almiralabs to get first off a résumé of our presentation’s key statements about the evolution in Social Media.

Every New Year comes with some changes. From the 1^st of January, 2012, we changed the number assignation of our established call-in voice services.  Please note the following new service number in your phone agenda to access to your subscribed services as usual:

• Memmori (www.memmori.es):
  Your personal assistant to keep organized your daily tasks. Manage your agenda in an easy and effective manner by recording voice notes in your mobile which will be sent to your personal email account or to a predefined group of your contacts. Also usable with your Evernote y Remember the Milk account.

• Hablamail (www.hablamail.com):
  A special service exclusively for Vodafone Clients to send short voice notes via a simple phone call to the email addresses of your entire team in moments where important news need to be communicate but an internet access is out of reach.

• My Happy Email (www.my-happy-email.com):
  It’s the first voice mobile service especially dedicated for kids to send their parents, family and friends an email by voice without any need to know how to write or use a computer. As a Christmas Special they can also send a message to Santa Claus and the Three Wise Men to send them their special wish list. And the voice recording sent by our kids will be an unforgettable gift which last forever!

The entire Almira Labs’ Team wishes you a good start in 2012 and we are looking forward that you give our services a voice!

This was one of Almira Labs´ main goal for this year and it has been successfully reached. After months of hard work of the whole team, we have got the appraisal for CMMI level 2.

CMMI stands for Capability Maturity Model Integration related to software engineering and organizational development which provides organizations with the main elements for an effective process improvement. The appraisal is awarded by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

This award is again an evidence of Almira Labs’ philosophy to make quality our leitmotiv in everything we do, our processes and the products and services we develop.

Additionally, this model alows us to be in the vanguard of the Spanish software industry, and position ourselves in the ITC sector as a company with a strong innovator focus whose main objective is to bring added value and the highest quality rather than enter in a competition based on low prices.

For Us in Almira Labs, the appraisal for CMMI level 2 means a great way to end this year and the leads the path to further improvements that help us to get higher appraisals. Congratulations to Almira Labs team!

The closing ceremony of the 7th edition of this Festival took place yesterday, Monday, 12th, in Malaga and was organized by the Federación Provincial de Asociaciones de Discapacitados Físicos y Orgánicos de Málaga   FAMF-COCEMFE Málaga.
The event gathered together the most relevant authorities in Andalucia with members of Málaga Town Council and Junta de Andalucia.
Almira Labs, as a collaborator at the Festival, received a small sculpture from the President of the  FAMF-COCEMFE Málaga, Mr. Joaquín Fernández Recio in remembrance of its participation in this 4-days event.
Additionally, the short film “Alma” was awarded with the Special Prize of this Festival. The film is an Andalusian production of Ketch and is directed by José Javier Pérez.
From Almira Labs we wish to give our support to the continuous efforts for inclusion that  FAMF-COCEMFE Málaga makes and hope to be a collaborator again in the upcoming year edition.

The United Nations observed 30 years ago the 3rd, December as an International Day of Persons with Disabilities under the theme “Full Participation and Equality”.  Since then there has been significant progress in raising awareness about the rights of persons with disabilities but nevertheless there is still need to sensitize more population for better integration of disabled people in every part of daily life.

In addition to the celebration of such day, Malaga will hold one of the most special events for these people: Cinema Festival for Disabled People. This event is again organized by FAMF-COCEMFE Malaga with the special collaboration of Ayuntamiento de Malaga, Junta de Andalucia and Diputación de Malaga.

The 7th edition of this Cinema Festival reflects the success of past years with thousands of visitors who wanted to support people with some type of disability and to help breaking barriers that do not allow them to integrate in society.

Almira Labs will collaborate in this especial event in Málaga with our voice-based services which are aimed at making it easier for visually handicapped people to have access to daily communications. Thus, with a mobile phone, these people can send voice messages to their contacts, create and forward voice emails and publish their voice messages in Facebook and Twitter.

This sponsorship is in line with our approach of developing technology for inclusion, universally designed, so people of all ages and conditions can have access to it. For more information about our services, please visit www.almiralabs.com

One of the biggest delights for parents and family members on Christmas Eve is to see the faces of their kids full of joy right in that moment when they open their gifts and discover that Santa Claus and the Three Wise Men exactly brought them those things what they deeply had wished. Although sometimes it’s not that easy for Santa and the Wise Men to guess what our youngsters really want for Christmas.

That’s why we from Almira Labs implemented 2 additional functionalities in My Happy Email to help parents and family to choose the right presents and to keep the faith alive that Santa and the Three Wise Men really exist.

Besides sending their voice emails to their family via a simple phone call to the local phone number 911 110 345, over the festive season children can also call Santa Claus and the Three Wise Men over the same line.

Santa, who is answering the call from the North Pole and the Three Wise Men from the Orient, will ask every child about their secret Christmas wishes in a pretty drolly and cheerful way. The answer of the child will be automatically recorded over the phone and sent to their parents and families email addresses as an .mp3 file directly after the call is finished.

With My Happy Email not only our kids get the best Christmas gift this year but also the whole family – an audio recording of their voices which will last forever!

> Try My Happy Email here for free

Christmas is near, and the youngest at home become the most important person in this period. Also we  from Almira Labs are thinking of them and therefore especially for them we  developed our latest voice-based service.

With My Happy Email children at any age can send voice mails to their parents, uncles and other family members without any need to know how to write or even how to use a computer.

My Happy Email is easy as a pie to use. The only thing the kid needs to do is to call to the local service number +34 / 911 110 345 and record its message via mobile or landline phone. So they can tell us how was his day at school was or at the playground or for example what things they would like to do with you at weekend with us. Within seconds the family recieve his voice message in their emails as an .mp3 file, so it can be replayed and forwarded to other contacts as often as you like.

Javier Martín, Almira Labs’ CEO, by himself father of two young children, tells how the idea of My Happy Email emerged: “Due to work I have to travel frequently, so from time to time I arrive quite  late at home when my kids are already sleeping. Since Almira Labs is specialized in voice-based services in telecomunication, the idea of developing such a service was easy to develop and the added value for parents to have their children´s voice always near is enormous. Hearing the voice of my kids while I am at work and especially their enthusiasm when they are telling me something about their day are a very comforting moments for me. ”

From now on they can put smiles on your faces again and again with their funny stories, in that moment when you can’t be with them.

For more information visit our web: www.my-happy-email.com

Watch the video how it works:

Under de claim “Technology within your reach” the 3rd TifloInnova Fair opened its doors from the 18th to the 20th November, 2011. Every 2 years this unique event is organized by the Centre for Research, Development and Application of Technologies for the Blind (CIDAT) of ONCE to offer a showcase of assistive technology for blind and visually impaired people that bring together concerned manufacturers, developers, distributors, users, researchers and professionals.

Apart from the fair pavilion where exhibitors of over 15 countries presented their latest innovation an accompanying course of lectures presented different related topics, such as new solutions for mobility technology. Within this range Vodafone Spain presented its latest mobile service Voice2Social, developed by Almira Labs – a voice based service which enables a publication in its Facebook or Twitter profile by a simple phone call. This service is accessible from every kind of phone device and doesn’t need any internet connection from your phone.

Vodafone Spain presented especially our service to demonstrate that there are still various existing access obstacles that keeps parts of the society away from new ways of communication and knowledge diffusion. Spain is already within the Top 5 most active countries in Facebook with an access rate of over 70% of the Spanish population. The most used applications in the mobile market nowadays are communication based and therefore disabled people in Spain have an existential need to also participate in social networks and to not suffer a fundamental disadvantage in new arising daily communication habits.

That’s why Almira Labs’ Voice2Social where implemented in Vodafone’s service portfolio as an ideal companion for blind people to offer them more mobility, autonomy and independence in their lives. Because with Voice2Social they also can access their social networks from wherever they are.

Last Friday, October, 14th was a very special day for BIC Euronova, as this European Center of Companies and Innovation celebrated 20 years being a reference with more than 3.500 jobs created within PTA (Andalucia’s Technological Park) in Malaga.

In the event, the main stakeholders of BIC Euronova could have a word to the audience; Idea Agency, Promalaga, Unicaja and IMPI. Additionally, former and current companies shared together their vision of the entrepreneurship in Malaga and Spain. Some of them like Novasoft and Aertec are now big and successful companies that were born in its facilities.
The issues discussed in the Conferences Sesssions had a common point: the need to support with all means the entrepreneurs that decide to innovate in Spain. Bic Euronova has experienced professionals that help those people with a good idea to check whether it can be successful or not and, being the former the case, they help them to put it into practice and turn it into a success.

In Almira Labs, as we have our office there, we are very satisfied and thankful with all the support, from a personal and professional point of view, that we receive form the people that work in Bic Euronova. So we wish them a very Happy Birthday and hope many more years of success to come!