We completed a very interesting phone briefing with Todd Moser, CEO of, a company that specializes in affordable, embedded speech processing technologies.
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Two firms long known for innovative, high-visibility speech applications are joining forces to enable mobile subscribers to dictate and originate SMS text messages.
Appcelerator’s Titanium Mobile: Addressing Platform Fragmentation
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Orwellian Aspects to the App Store Strategy
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IBM Dubs Nuance a “Preferred Business Partner,” Formalizes Commercial Relationship
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Voxeo Launches Open Source Telephony Lab, Hires Adhearsion’s Founders
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To run Voxeo’s Lab, the company is hiring Jay Phillips and Jason Goecke, who ran Adhearsion, a three-year-old company that developed an open source, Ruby-based development framework for communications applications. That makes Voxeo the primary sponsor of Adhearsion. But the company’s core will continue to run on top of the Asterisk open source PBX platform and will soon add support for Voxeo’s Tropo cloud telephony service.
Stepped Up Activity for Symbian OS
Two developments will have an impact on the integration of speech applications with Symbian-based mobile phones and services around the world.
Nortel Approves Avaya’s Bid for Assets; Could Cast Its Aura Around Enterprise Software
A relatively paultry $475 million is the amount accepted by Nortel from Avaya as a “stalking horse” bid.
IBM Rushes In; Microsoft Exits SMB “UC Appliance” Market
IBM is amping up its efforts to provide a UC appliance to small businesses just as Microsoft has turned out the lights on its analogous product.