Over on Opus Researches Voice Biocon Web site, I’ve been logging a number of stories surrounding the global growth of voice biometric technologies as part of multi-factor authentication practices to prevent fraud for commercial banks, investment companies, card issuers and government agencies.
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.
West Corporation continues to pursue its transformation-through-acquisition strategy with a $120 million purchase of Smoothstone IP Communications.
SpeechCycle, a firm that has pioneered robust, phone-based self-service application development, has hit a billion interaction milestone.
Global Bilgi, a subsidiary of wireless carrier Turkcell, announced that it is experiencing the “fastest growth rates in voice signature application users in one year” than any of its peers in the telecommunications industry.
There’s a recombinant quality to the platforms that mobile developers can employ to build new applications and services. A case in point is Appcelerator’s acquisition of Aptana.
Orange relaunches its Landline Number Service for businesses.
Phil Wolff at Skype Journal said it all in a very insightful post: “Skype’s mobile bizdev execs trumped Skype’s platform technology execs.”
Orange is taking major steps toward extending Internet and Web-based applications to those wireless subscribers who have, for whatever reason, opted *not* to purchase smartphones.
GigaOm’s Mobilize Conference is certainly the epicenter of mobile services today, but this press release out of Boca Raton caught our attention.