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CTIA exposed a bunch of new companies getting into the voice to text game and it is expected to be a fast growing area. This morning saw my post on Nuance, a company bringing voice to text to GPS (in addition to a voicemail to text service), last month we saw Spinvox get $100 million in investment to grow internationally. Today, I got the opportunity to mix it up with James Siminoff, CEO of SimulScribe whose company is a leader in voicemail to text serivce and get the pulse of his company and where he believes the market is headed. Simulscribe also extended a 30 day free trial for Gadgetell readers. See the end of the post for link.
Gadgetell: CTIA has brought has fleshed out a bunch more players in your sandbox, nervous?
JS: Nope. SimulScribe, besides investing over $4 Million in our company and technology, is the leader in voicemail to text functionality. We’ve worked extremely hard to gain our loyal customers.
Gadgetell: This morning I noted that Nuance is bringing their experience to the game with voice to text for GPS and they claim to be courting the teleco carriers. What do you make of this?
JS: Nuance is a company I really like, they have fantastic experience with their Dragon products. However, I don’t understand how they can do that. Truely, I don’t get it. I think they are a great company but to put a package together for a carrier is scary. They may get a deal or two, but to not have the experience of handling in volume and make that pitch is tough.
Gadgetell: Is it safe to assume SimulScribe is working with carriers as well?
JS: We do work with Vonage, M5, Broadsoft and others. We like the unique opportunities where our service is going to be valued. You can’t get the value proposition across to an AT&T who only sees how much they are bringing to the table.
Gadgetell: So, say if other services tie up the carriers, will SimulScribe survive?
JS: Absolutely. SimulScribes real value is in the unified messaging solution. Your work, home and cell phone can all be tied into our service, giving you one contact point for all your messaging. It doesn’t matter if your work has AT&T, your home is Verizon and your cell phone is T-Mobile, they all work equally well on our unified system. No one can match our offerings.
Gadgetell: Many of these other new players want to bring voice to texting and voice to searching and voice to everything on your phone. Is this a direction SimulScribe will head?
JS: No. Our focus is voicemail, it is what we know best. You won’t see a non-voicemail product from SimulScribe.
Gadgetell: Let’s talk Spanish for a moment? Are you ready to roll out Spanish translation?
JS: Almost. We’ve been hard at work on this and it is in beta now. Today, we get lots of calls from bilingual customers that we deliver and we’ve turned on the service randomly to see how it reacts. This will be rolled out in the near future.
Gadgetell: *nervously* You’ve made war with some bloggers, is that just a marketing tactic or is it personal.
JS: *laughs* You mean TechCrunch?
Gadgetell: We can start there
JS: techcrunch put something out there, I couldn’t help myself. It was the wrong thing to do, we’ve made up and made friends with TechCrunch and Michael. We are (and I am ) willing to speak out. Sometimes I am wrong. Spinvox is trying to drown us with some sizable offers. We’ve tried to be friends to the bloggers. I am happy our comments are more edgy; the world doesn’t need a boring start-up.
Gadgetell: I couldn’t agree more. Thanks.
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Written by JG Mason on April 9th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Sure, we’ve heard RIAA-admiring lawyers affirm that ripping your own CDs is in fact “stealing,” but it seems the aforementioned entity is putting its money where its mouth is in a case against Jeffrey Howell. Reportedly, the Scottsdale, Arizona resident is being sued by the RIAA, and rather than Mr. Howell just writing a check and calling it a day, he’s fighting back in court. Interestingly, it seems that the industry is maintaining that “it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into their computer.” Ira Schwartz, the industry’s lawyer in the case, is arguing that MP3 files created on his computer from legally purchased CDs are indeed “unauthorized copies,” and while we’ve no idea what will become of all this, we suppose you should go on and wipe those personal copies before you too end up in handcuffs.
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Written by Darren Murph on December 29th, 2007 with no comments.
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Filed under: Cellphones
So, you’ve got an outstanding ticket from talking while behind the wheel in Chicago, do you? Meet attorney Blake Horwitz, who is now likely to be the best friend you don’t even know. Reportedly, Mr. Horwitz is suing the city and claiming that arrests of citizens caught driving and talking were in fact illegal, and furthermore, he’s demanding that Chicago “dismiss any outstanding tickets and refund almost $2 million in fines collected since 2005.” Apparently, the actual law that prevents users from yapping and motoring requires that the city erect signs that instruct drivers not to converse while driving, yet such signs have purportedly not been posted across Chi-town. The devil’s in the details, we suppose.
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Written by Darren Murph on December 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Filed under: Laptops
It’s not like ThinkPads have been immune to the notorious overheating battery issue, but a fiery incident in Ohio may not be IBM’s fault. In a somewhat bizarre tale, it’s reported that an Ohioan purchased a replacement battery from Shentech for his ThinkPad, only to later have it overheat, catch on fire and damage his machine. After discovering that the faulty cell was actually a counterfeit, IBM took the liberty of ordering a dozen batteries from the Flushing, New York-based company, and it soon discovered that all twelve received were indeed fakes. As you can probably guess, IBM has filed suit against the outfit and has asked the court to require Shentech to hand over all of its batteries for destruction, profits it made from selling the fakes and a million dollars “per counterfeit mark per type of item sold.” That’ll teach ‘em to mess with Big Blue.
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Written by Darren Murph on November 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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Filed under: Laptops
Just months after a slew of OLPC XOs made their way into Nigeria, a Nigerian-owned company is filing suit against Nicholas Negroponte and the OLPC Association for patent infringement. Lagos Analysis and subsidiary LANCOR filed the lawsuit on November 22nd in Nigeria, claiming that the aforementioned parties willfully and illegally reverse engineered its keyboard driver source codes. Turns out, LANCOR makes its ends by selling region specific-based keyboards that allow for direct access inputting of “accents, symbols and diacritical marks during regular typing,” and sure enough, the XO’s board looks mighty similar to those offered up by the plaintiff. Additionally, the outfit is in the process of “filing a similar lawsuit against OLPC in a United States Federal Court,” so we’d recommend snagging an XO or two before Nik Neg and company are forced to inflate prices to pay off those highfalutin lawyers.
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Written by Darren Murph on November 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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Filed under: Portable Audio
Although we aren’t inclined to believe that this is the first time such a suit has been brought upon Apple, a new one claiming that the Cupertino powerhouse has unlawfully tied the iPod to its iTunes Store has made its way to the US District Court for the Southern District of California. The complaint was filed by a Florida resident on behalf of all Florida-based iPod owners and iTunes Store customers, and it basically alleges that certain limitations — such as the inability to play content purchased through iTunes on anything not labeled an iPod — is “unreasonable and illegal under Florida’s antitrust and unfair trade laws.” Furthermore, the plaintiff claims that Apple willfully disabled embedded support for rival formats, and stated that it was “in possession of monopoly power in the portable digital media player market, the online music market and the online video market.” ‘Course, it’s not like those lawyers at 1 Infinite Loop aren’t used to this stuff by now, and we really can’t see this being the beginning of the end (nor a catalyst for rule changes) for the oh-so-mighty iTunes Store.
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Written by Darren Murph on November 7th, 2007 with no comments.
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Filed under: Networking
Just a fortnight after the AP called Comcast out for tampering with some users’ ability to swap files over P2P networks, a coalition has formally asked the FCC to stop the operator from interfering with such activity. The petition reportedly asks the Commission to “immediately declare that Comcast is violating the FCC’s policy,” and it’s being supported by the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Media Access Project and professors at the internet practices of the Yale, Harvard and Stanford law schools (among others). Separately, Free Press and Public Knowledge are filing a complaint that asks the FCC to demand a “forfeiture from Comcast of $195,000 per affected subscriber.” It’s also said that this will be the “first real test of the FCC’s stance on Net Neutrality,” but there’s no telling how long the Commission will wait before acting on the filings.
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Written by Darren Murph on November 2nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Filed under: Desktops, Peripherals
We had a hunch that this spat between HP and Acer wouldn’t just fade away into the sunset, and sure enough, HP is on the receiving end of the latest scuffle. Most recently, Acer has filed patent counterclaims against HP in the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin and with the US International Trade Commission, alleging that HP “infringed on patents related to personal computers, servers and peripheral devices.” Unfortunately, that’s about the extent of it, but Acer did go on to state that it would “take all necessary steps to protect and enforce its patented technologies.” If the gloves weren’t already off, we’d say they are now.
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Written by Darren Murph on October 31st, 2007 with no comments.
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