Here are some quick notes on the activities among mobile app developers in and around the CTIA Conference in San Diego.
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Voxeo purchases Motorola’s VoxGateway Biz; Signals Stronger Support for VoiceXML Community
Motorola has sold its VoiceXML Gateway business to Voxeo for an undisclosed sum.
Previewing Multimodal Customer Care: Google Wave + ‘Bots and Recombinant Telephony
Wave’s roll out is a signal moment in Recombinant Telephon and has inspired a tremendous amount of creativity and will, over the next few years, prove valuable for collaborative communications, customer care and combinations of the two.
The Lure of Video Looms: Action at Cisco, Mitel and IBM
On the heels of Cisco’s announced acquisition of Tandberg ASA, IBM has announced a new “managed telepresence solution”.
Rumblings From the Asterisk Crowd: $99/channel Speech Rec from Vestec
Digium partners with Vestec to offer low-cost speech recogntion engine for Asterisk.
Google Wave Day Tomorrow: Ribbit Conferences In
Google will be issuing some 100,000 email invitations for newbies to enter the world of Google Wave. It will include a phone collaboration extension from Ribbit.
Distracted Driving Summit: All Signs Point to Mobile Voice
It’s the eve of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s “Distracted Driving Summit”. Solutions vendors like AT&T, Vlingo and Ford are pre-releasing findings from long-standing research on the impact of cellphone use, especially for texting, on auto accident rates.
Aspect’s Cloudy Approach to Contact Center Transformation; Leverage VMware
In this press release, Aspect Communications tells the world that virtualization will be a big part of its efforts to bring UC applications into enterprise contact centers. But instead of turning to cloud-based resources from partner and part owner Microsoft,… Read More ›
There’s a Ford in Mobile Speech’s Future
Ford Motor Company plans to incorporate a text reader as an option in its passenger cars is a precursor to more in-vehicle, speech-based activity.
The Challenge Ahead for Mobile Speech
Openness and Innovation go hand in hand, but they don’t always encourage creative assembly of code and communications capacity that result in truly useful services.