Excerpt: “The billions of calls made every year to directory-assistance services are a healthy precedent for voice-based search services,” says Dan Miller, a senior analyst at Opus Research, a San Francisco-based consultancy that tracks the interactive-services sector. Free mobile search,… Read More ›
Opus in the News
Investor’s Business Daily – May 15, 2007
Excerpt: “The combined company will cover all of the major device manufacturers, portable operating systems and a good deal of the carriers themselves around the globe,” said Dan Miller, an analyst with Opus Research. “It’s going to be an accelerant… Read More ›
Red Herring – May 15, 2007
Excerpt: A report by Opus Research forecasts that total spending by carriers, device makers, subscribers, and advertisers on mobile search will grow from $4 billion in 2006 to $7.5 billion in 2010. Customers of the combined company will include handset… Read More ›
Ars Technica – May 13, 2007
Excerpt: Summerfield spoke recently at the Voice Biometrics Conference in Washington, DC, an event organized by Opus Research and billed as the “first voice biometrics conference in the world,” and Ars was there to bring back a front-line report on… Read More ›
Boston Globe – April 26, 2007
Excerpt: To date, mobile voice-enabled search has been restricted almost entirely to basic directory assistance — a business worth about $4.1 billion a year, according to Dan Miller , senior analyst at Opus Research in San Francisco. , Miller projects… Read More ›
Investor’s Business Daily – April 16, 2007
Excerpt: The mobile search market has become the latest battlefield for Web search rivals Microsoft and Google, (GOOG) which recently launched a mobile search service called Google Local Voice Search. “It’s definitely heating up,” said Dan Miller, an analyst with… Read More ›
Wall Street Journal – March 14, 2007
Excerpt: Web-based voice services are still a relatively new field. The industry has so far been populated by small specialists, but is ripe for consolidation, says Dan Miller, an analyst at Opus Research Inc. of San Francisco. Companies spent $1.12… Read More ›
Investor’s Business Daily – March 14, 2007
Excerpt: Most of Tellme’s business today involves providing automated call center services for companies such as E-Trade, (ETFC) FedEx (FDX) and Merrill Lynch. (MER) But the acquisition is really a “mobile play” for Microsoft, said Dan Miller, an analyst with… Read More ›
Business 2.0 – February 2007
Excerpt: The overall market for voice-recognition technology topped $1 billion for the first time in 2006, a 100 percent increase in just two years. Within that broad market, there are numerous subsectors that are likewise surging: The market for server-based… Read More ›
InfoWorld – February 13, 2007
Excerpt: Another thing IBM did about a year ago to accelerate the company’s ability to offer speech-enabled applications that are “truly useful” to the average person was to integrate its speech research into its core software group, said Dan Miller,… Read More ›