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A Denver, CO telephony application developer, Powderfone.com, has release a cool application for hungover ski-bums who want up to the minute information on optimal skiing conditions. The Powderfone service is powered by Asterisk Open Source PBX, and showcases the uniqueness and flexibility of Asterisk.

Powderfone.com offers a free snow report wake-up telephone call service to skiers and snowboarders for 1,200 resorts worldwide.

Subscribers choose how much snow, which days, which resorts, and at what time they would like to receive a wake up call. When a resort gets the snowfall a subscriber has requested, they will receive a phone call like this:

RING RING … …Wake Up. PowderFone has good news for you! Copper Mountain received 12 inches of new powder at 5:11am as reported by ski patrol. Press 1 to listen to the avalanche report. Visit coppercolorado.com for more information.

“We started this a few years ago and now have a list of top North American resorts branding our services and offering it to their customers,” says Kelly Taylor, PowderFone Co Founder. This season PowderFone will surpass 100,000 wake up calls in their 4 year history.

PowderFone continues to develop new ways for resorts and riders to hook up. This season, a new product called “Weekend Warrior” will be launched in limited resorts in the Midwest and Eastern U.S delivering weekly phone updates of conditions, events and lodging deals to skiers and riders. The PowderCast, a podcast and blog run by PowderFone’s University of Colorado Interns is produced every month. To signup for PowderFone visit www.powderfone.com.
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