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Opus Research at ITExpo and the Cloud Computing Summit
For followers of Recombinant Communications (RC), I strongly recommend that you register for and attend the Cloud Communications Summit @ITEXPO, organized by Thomas Howe’s Light & Electric Company.
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Microsoft’s Speech Czar Describes the “Speech At Microsoft” Group
Zig Sarafin describes Microsoft’s many initiatives around speech and the Natural User Interface (NUI).
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AT&T in the Age of Ma Google (Part 1): The Lobbying Effort
While it has always been a master of manipulating public policy, AT&T’s lobbyists have gone the extra mile (or perhaps the “last mile”) in the past week by filing comments proposing that the FCC develop guidelines for killing off POTS.
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Ford Turns Cars Into Open Platforms for Recombinant Mobile Speech Apps
In a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Ford CEO Alan Mulally claimed that his company is modeling itself after the consumer electronics industry.
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Google’s Nexus One Launches With Voice Enabled Everything
Not surprisingly (since it is first-and-foremost a phone), integration of voice command and dictation was one of the major areas of innovation for the new Nexus One from Google.
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Five 9’s? Fuggedaboutit!
In this post I launch a new theme in support of Recombinant Communications by talking about a concept that should be left behind – if it hasn’t been totally abandoned already. That is the “ideal” of “Five 9’s”.
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It’s Official: Nuance is Buying SpinVox for $66 Million in Cash, Plus Stock
Nuance has acquired SpinVox to “accelarate its voice to text business.” According to the release the transaction was worth $102 million with a third of that coming in Nuance common stock.
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2010: Taking Recombinant Communications “Over The Top”
“Over the top” (OTT) is gaining momentum as the “term of art” for value-added Voice over IP (VoIP) transport networks. In rapid succession we’ve seen Avaya contemplating a relationship with Skype, Telefonica’s European wireless subsidiary 02 purchase JaJah and most recently Mark Plakias at Orange pointed me to a “Flash-to-VoIP” service, calling it an “OTT cocktail of Flash and Jingle-to-SIP gateway technology + carrier.”
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Fear No Google: Or What to Do As the Sultan of Search Morphs into a Phone Company
Featured Research Google continues to impress fans and pundits with its VoIP-based utilities (Google Voice), multimedia instant messaging client (Google Talk), branded DNS, mobile OS, scads of “dark fiber” and now, reportedly, a phone of its own. Incumbent carriers and… Read More ›
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The Recombinant Avaya: Closes on Nortel Enterprise Systems; Closing in on Skype?
This is a banner day for Avaya. After five months, its proposed acquisition of Nortel ES has finally closed. Now it is apparently thinking of Skype.