Mobile payment startup, Square is very close to launching applications that enable people to authorize payments by using their voice over a smartphone.
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Bubbly Growing Impressively as “Community Blogging” Accelerates
As LinkedIn’s IPO establishes the market value of a strong social graph, BubbleMotion is finding that “community blogging” over its voice messaging platform continues to log impressive growth.
IfByPhone Keeps Voice in the Marketing Automation Mix
Chicago-based ifbyphone continues its relentless campaign to keep the telephone and voice-based communications in the Conversational Commerce mix.
McKinsey Report Provides Only One Side of the VRM+CRM Story
The McKinsey & Company Global Institute just issued a report entitled “Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Poductivity.”
Nuance Building its Mobile Developer Community With Expansion into China
Nuance announced that its developer support program is formally expanding to China by adding Mandarin Chinese to a set of languages that already supports US and UK English, European Spanish, European French, German, Italian and Japanese for dictation and search, as well as 35 languages for text-to-speech conversion.
Voxeo’s Developers to Find the Value of “One Cent SMS”
There’s definitely a price war afoot surrounding SMS text messaging.
Updated: No Difference Between Native and Captive: Apple To Leverage Both Siri and Nuance
With Microsoft plunking down $8.5 billion of its $36 billion in cash and near cash to buy Skype, a few analysts have started to take a closer look at the $25 billion in cash and short term investments on Apple’s balance sheet and apparently concluded that it is contemplating a deal with Nuance Communications.
C3 Meets Internet Identity, VRM and Personal Data Ecosystems
Last Friday (April 29), in preparation for the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), Opus Research (with a big assist from Judi Clark) made our new headquarters the venue for a “C3 Salon.” The topics under discussion addressed some of the “boil the ocean” challenges, like building Trust Fabrics, establishing exchanges that would treat personal information as “intangible assets” or “alternative currency” or building a general consensus around making sure that “purpose binding” and “context switching” are baked into all future data sharing schema.
UK Grant for Voice Biometrics in Multifactor Authentication
In late March, the UK’s Technology Strategy Board – an “arms-length” agency reporting to the United Kingdom’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills – announced a grant of 300 British Pounds Sterling (Approximately $480 U.S.) for research, development and enhancement of use cases that deploy voice biometrics for strong user authentication.
Google Touts Speech-to-Speech Translation in Chrome
The latest downloadable version of Google’s Chrome browser showcase how Google Translate can support spoken input and text-to-speech rendering of translated phrases.