“Satisficing” has long been the unspoken business imperative of the speech processing community.
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.
Google Solutions Marketplace Is Already An Exemplary Partner Site
Leave it to Google to launch an online resource for its third-party application providers that is clean, easy-to-use and informative.
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.
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”.
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 ›
Verizon and Motorola Bring Voice-based Google Mobile Search To Times Square
Verizon Wireless, Motorola and Google promote using “just your voice” to search Time Square on Black Friday.
Google’s New Open Wallet Policy
Google announced two acquisitions that make clear a strategy that, on the one hand, will integrate display ads for mobile devices and, on the other hand, will augment the call management and voicemail service that is Google Talk with a set of VoIP services that reach physical telephone instruments.
Real-Time Search Wars Put Spotlight on Profiles and “Status Indicators”
Last week Microsoft triggered something of an imbroglio by forging formal agreements with both Twitter and Facebook whereby their content will be indexed for inclusion in Bing search results.
Twitter Lists Launch Coincides with Real Time Web Summit
Twitter launched its much anticipated Twitter Lists feature, while Google’s pubsubhubbub makes Twitterfeed into “Feedburner for the real time Web”