Casabi, a Cambpell, Calif. company, offers a service to turn your traditional home phone into Internet “smart-phone,” and says it has raised $10 million in a second round of financing from venture capitalists.

The Casabi service integrates your home phone with a phone directory, peer-to-peer VOIP calling, instant messaging presence, local search, and ring-tone and screen customization.

The company says distribution partnerships are being negotiated with Internet portals and regional telephone companies and that it will have a number of announcements in April 2007.

The financing is led by Canaan Partners, and includes previous investors Mayfield Fund and Vanguard Ventures, who invested $5.5 million in August, 2005.

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3 Comments

  1. March 12th, 2007
    12:02 pm

    Nick said:

    Wow what a great idea!

  2. March 12th, 2007
    12:25 pm

    Patricia Bottero said:

    Great idea!
    How about downloading movies from your home phone to your widescreen HDTV?
    PB

  3. Pr said:

    WOW!! that is really cool. When are they offering this service to the public?

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