If you were to ask most wireless subscribers what they wanted out of their wireless service, you would get a variety of answers that led to one overriding desire-more. If a little is good, more has to be better.Wireless carriers increasingly are turning to...
With a little help from concerned consumer groups and government researchers, voice technologies are forging ahead as a safe alternative to dialing while driving, while at the same time opening new revenue channels for advertisers and wireless carriers.Voice technologies include portals, which can be...
MENLO PARK, Calif.-Voice-interface software provider Nuance Communications Inc. postponed its initial public offering by a day, but still managed to beat the market, closing up $16.94 at $33.94 per share on a day when the Nasdaq fell almost 100 points.The original plan was for...
HandsetsPhilipsPhilips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon screen feature simultaneously displays up to five visual icons representing the phone's functions and features. The...
While most conversations about the wireless Internet have focused on transmitting data, a few companies are looking at creating a voice-based Internet-browsing model aimed specifically at mobile phone users.Nuance Telecommunications Inc., a company based in Menlo Park, Calif., took the latest step in this...
NEW YORK-Qualcomm's meteoric stock price appreciation in 1999 may well be a unique phenomenon that other companies are unlikely to replicate.Nonetheless, other established and new telecommunications players seem poised to offer substantial returns on investment, J. Michael Gallipo, portfolio manager of Monument Telecommunications Fund,...
Motorola Inc. released a new communications platform last week called Mobile Internet Exchange, or MIX, with the goal of giving users the ability to access Internet information by either voice or data on a mobile basis."Motorola expects that by 2005, 1 billion people will...
NEW YORK-Nuance of Menlo Park, Calif., announced Oct. 5 it is in preliminary testing stages with 25 telecommunications and Internet companies for Voyager, its new speech interface software.Company officials said they see Voyager, which uses open standards, as heralding the arrival of the "Voice...
Following an unannounced soft launch in November, Conxus Communications Inc. announced its long-awaited Pocketext text-messaging service is being rolled out market-by-market nationwide.The company began the service late last year in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington D.C./Baltimore. In the coming months, Conxus said it...
Joining General Magic Inc. and Wildfire Communications Inc. in the voice-based virtual assistant game is Webley Systems Inc. with a unified messaging service bureau managed by an electronic English butler named Webley.Webley is an application of Vail Systems' platform, based on a UNIX cluster...
MENLO PARK, Calif.-Nuance Communications said it will provide its natural language speech-recognition technology to Motorola Inc. for its upcoming speech-enabled service code-named Myosphere.Nuance 6 allows users to speak to devices like they talk to people. For example, instructions such as, "call Ann in her...
Motorola Inc. said it created a new start-up services business to focus on developing and providing integrated communication and information services.The Internet and Connectivity Services Division is part of the Internet and Networking Group, which is part of another new Motorola unit called the...
