VoiceCash, an enabler of mobile payment solutions, has made some noise this week with a couple of press releases formally launching its prepaid MasterCard twin card for the German market and announcing a new office and regional CEO in Dubai…. Read More ›
The “beta” version of Google Maps Navigation app gives instant legitimacy to voice-activated GPS, offered free of charge on Android phones.
Today Google takes a page out of the wireless carrier playbook by using a combination of call forwarding to voice mail in conjunction with SMS to offer a “light” version of Google voice. The result, as dramatized in this video, is something akin to visual voicemail on the iPhone combined with the voicemail-to-text feature of the full-featured Google Voice service.
Google counters AT&T’s claims of non-inclusiveness, by stepping up viral efforts to make its call management and voice processing service more popular.
Right on cue with the issuance of our Mobile Speech Report, AT&T and Vlingo have forged a licensing agreement and strategic alliance whereby AT&T is acquiring a “minority stake” in Vlingo (without making the terms public). Renewed interest by AT&T’s… Read More ›
Under the brand “Diet-SMS”, Tata-DOCOMO will start billing “by-the-character”, rather than on a per message basis.
GigaOm’s Mobilize 2009 Conference was the site of a major product announcement as Dr. Sanjay Jha, the chief executive officer of Motorola’s Mobile Devices business unit, took the opportunity to show off Motoblur, on a smartphone running the Android operating system
Internet2Go, a unit of Opus Research specializing in the mobile Internet, is proud to sponsor and speak at the upcoming Open Mobile Summit, being held November 4-5 in San Francisco. I2G program director Greg Sterling will be leading an executive… Read More ›
The third largest cable TV system operator, Cox Communications, announced that it has formally chosen Qualcomm’s BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) as its distribution mechanism for mobile content.
Kirusa, a long-time provider of hosted automated voice services has gained a wireless carrier customer as the Ugandan subsidiary of MTN launched a new “Voice SMS” using Kirusa’s platform.