Recent Posts - page 104
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Positive Signs for West Corporation’s IPO
Successful IPOs for LinkedIn and Yandex and should bolster confidence for West Corporation as it gets set to re-introduce itself to Wall Street.
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SVOX Downloads Expose a Gender Gap for TTS
SVOX AG reveals interesting details about the mix of “voices” that have been downloaded from the Android marketplace to support navigation applications, ebook reading, game playing, speech-to-speech translation and other talking apps.
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Square’s “Mobile Wallet” Service Sets Stage for Pay-By-Voice, Maybe.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Voxeo’s Developers to Find the Value of “One Cent SMS”
There’s definitely a price war afoot surrounding SMS text messaging.
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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.
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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.