A briefing with the principals at ZoomSafer inspired me to think, once again, about the important, yet marginal, role that speech processing technologies have to play in making for safer motoring.
mobile services
Japan’s Largest Wireless Carrier Provides OpenID Authentication to Half the Adult Population
NTT docomo, Japan’s largest wireless carrier, is using OpenID to enable its 55+ million subscribers to avail themselves of “one-click” purchases or “single sign-on” access to information and resources.
Thoughts on Orange’s Curious Choice of MeeGo
One of the surprise announcements from the 2010 Mobile World Congress came from a strategic alliance between Orange and Intel.
Skype’s Deal with Verizon Wireless: Is That All There Is?
Both Verizon Wireless and Skype have confirmed that they have forged an agreement that will “deeply embed” Skype’s services into selected smartphones marketed to Verizon Wireless’ 91 million subscribers. As a result of the agreement, Skype will be “always on”… Read More ›
The Real Meaning of Fonolo’s iPhone App – Reinventing the Contact Center
On February 9, when Fonolo launched a free app for the iPhone, it raised the visibility of all efforts to shorten the time it takes to get things done through phone-based self-service.
Google Buzz is Mobile Advertiser Friendly But Developer Unfriendly
Google debuted its new “Buzz” today, positioning it both as a service enhancement for the 150 million users of Gmail, and as a social networking extension to mobile subscribers with a gmail account.
Siri Debuts on iPhone: Speech-based Virtual Personal Assistant
Today the App Store in Apple’s iTunes site begins distributing Siri, a new app that transforms the iPhone into a “virtual personal assistant.”
Cisco Previews Its Mobile UC Approach
There is no question that “unified communications” and “collaboration” are destined to have a mobile component.
Google Voice Offered Through Mobile Browsers to iPhone and Palms
TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld reported that Google is about to launch a mobile Web site that extends the capabilities of Google Voice to the Apple iPhone and Palm Pre/Pixi. While he calls it an “end run” around Apple’s governance of the… Read More ›
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”.