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Mobile World Congress, Day 1

Mobile World Congress opened its doors to 50,000 attendees in Barcelona today. The lines were long, but they went quite quickly. Much longer were the lines at local mobile stores, where non-local attendees flocked to purchase local mobile phones and SIM cards for Spain. A few notes from the first day of the conference:

Interesting that [...]

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GotSearch: All-voice, voice-to-search solution to preview at MWC10

Spoken and GotVoice have a nifty new product to preview at Mobile World Congress, and we’d like to give our readers the advance scoop!
Introducing Spoken’s GotSearch, a nifty new voice-to-search service with concierge as a value-added service. It’s a true all-voice, voice-to-search solution, maximized for mobile operators.
Why voice-to-search?
We live in a highly mobile [...]

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Google’s Nexus One: voice to text

As the beginning of 2010 brought the revolutionary Nexus One, the barrage of reviews of the shiny new gadget has been substantial, to say the least. Question is, is it really revolutionary, what exactly is revolutionary about the Nexus One?
The announcement that Google would be selling its new Nexus One phone based on the Android [...]

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Do you Browse the Web on your Phone more or less than the Average Person?

Ok, so think about how many times a month you browse the web on your smartphone?  Every week, every day? And do you just take a quick glance, or are you using it for a significant period on the bus, at the airport, or somewhere else? How many hours total does it add up to [...]

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Mobile email use increasing – Growing to $212 billion by 2013

Here’s an interesting report which we found at David Siecker’s blog.  The article quotes a study from ABI research.
David seems interested in Voice-to-Text, starting with Jott.  His analysis is great, but we think he should do a little research on Voicemail to Text companies too…

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More Than One Billion Served

We’re not talking about hamburgers.  MobileCrunch reports that in 2007, more than 1 Billion Mobile phones were sold to consumers. At GotVoice, more mobile phone sales means more people can receive voicemail as text messages, so these stats are very interesting:
The article quotes:
According to figures from Gartner, sales of mobile phones surpassed 1.15 billion units [...]

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GotVoice Delivers Voice Messaging Straight From the Horse’s Mouth

Here’s a link to the official press release about Talking Avatars. More info to come soon.
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Our Facebook Group – Cool Apps For Mobile Phones

If you like to talk about cool mobile gadgets, make sure to join our Facebook Group called Cool Apps For Mobile Phones. You can promote, debate, comment on, praise or ask questions about any mobile application here. And you make even make some new friends in the process.
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Cell Phone Vital in Recent Birth

Here’s a story from Cellular-News.com, but without any other attribution, so take it for what it’s worth.
According to the report…
A woman in Russia has given birth – by the light of cellphones after a power failure plunged the hospital into darkness. Quick thinking nurses borrowed mobile phones from visitors and other medical staff [...]

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New Mobile Phone Statistics are Promising For Voice to Text Services

Business Wire brings us a release from the Mobile Marketing Association, featuring new data from their third-annual Mobile Attitude and Usage Study.
Particularly relevant to the world of Voice to Text and Visual Voicemail, is that “54 percent of 13-34 year olds use SMS for social [...]

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