Category Archives: mobile voice
India’s MTNL Drastically Cuts International Long Distance Fees
Review: MTNL gambles one of the industry’s last high-margin services on shifting international calls from to high-volume low-margin Continue reading
Mobile ads are best when they don’t feel like advertising: Female Friday with Claudia Poepperl
It’s Female Friday once again on GoMo News! This is the fifth installment in our series of interviews with the leading ladies of the mobile industry. Today we’ve got Claudia Poepperl, CEO of addafix – an award winning mobile content company that ads relevant, non-intrusive content around your phone calls.
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Free home phone service goes mobile: Ooma app on iPhone
Ooma is a home phone technology that offers free voice calls in the US, and up to 90% off international calls. It has been around since 2004, as an actual device you plugged in at your home. But today Ooma has announced that the exact same services will be available as an application on your iPhone. Continue reading
IMImobile launches “Cell Shakti” VAS to Empower Rural Indians
Review: The latest salvo in the rural Indian battlefield between handset makers and service providers to own the customer
VAS provider IMImobile has teamed up with Airtel to introduce Cell Shakti (shakti roughly means “power”), a service that caters to the needs of rural Indians who have long suffered from poor access to infrastructure, education and information.
Tata Future Group Launch Another Mobile Carrier; Goal to Make Mobile Service “Virtually Free”
Review: Another day, another new Indian mobile operator. But this one has a novel idea Continue reading
Mobile India: Airtel Introduces Voice-Blogs
Review: “Twitter with voices” another example of India’s competitive advantage in creating voice-based VAS for the developing world and its own enormous customer base Continue reading
Mobile India: Vodafone India’s Mobile Box Office
Review: Odd to a Westerner, but proof that India will be a global leader in voice-based VAS
Mobile voice from Vlingo finally hits Android
Vlingo lets you control your phone with your voice. That’s the short version of the service – essentially, Vlingo wants to let you use every feature of your phone without needing your thumbs. And today, the app has finally been launched for Android devices. Continue reading
Verizon banning Wi-Fi for Skype is actually a hell of a move
It seems to be Bizarro world over at Verizon headquarters. As the leading VoIP service in the world, Skype has been getting operators backs up all over the world. The voice service has had to fight its way onto most platforms – and has often only been allowed in on the understanding that it can only work over Wi-Fi networks. So the question is why has Verizon gone in completely the opposite direction, allowing 3G calls but banning Wi-Fi? Continue reading
Twitter by voice: mobile social network Bubbly gets celebrity users
GoMo News covered the launch of a new voice-powered mobile social network in India in early February. Modeled on Twitter, “Bubbly” allows users to record and send short voice recordings to all of their followers. Two weeks after launch, the creators of the service are claiming over 500,000 users, and a growing portfolio of Bollywood stars. Continue reading
Mobile voice star Vlingo releases serious update to iPhone app – but you gotta pay
One of the features I’m happiest with on my N1 is the voice translation. On occasion, when I’m too lazy to use my thumbs, I will just speak an SMS into my phone and away it goes. But being a nativeGoogle feature, it’s limited to Android devices. Vlingo provides the same service (and more) for BlackBerry smartphones, Nokia S60 phones, the iPhone and certain WinMo devices. And the iPhone app has gotten a major useability boost today. Continue reading
Skype launches native app for Symbian mobiles
BREAKING NEWS:
Skype has launched a native Skype app for the Symbian platform. Anything newer then an N95 now has the ability to run a native Skype app. It’s available at www.Skype.com/m Continue reading
Orange launches a €2 for 2MB Travel Data Daily roaming tariff
Orange today reinforced its commitment to enable more customers to get access to mobile multimedia
services with the launch of a daily data roaming tariff across the European Union (EU). The €2 for 2MB daily data bundle is designed to offer Orange customers peace of mind when accessing mobile data services anywhere in the EU. Continue reading
What do you call a mix between voice messaging and mobile social networking? Bubbly!
Mobile messaging experts Bubble Motion has announced a new social network based around its voice messaging platform. Called “Bubbly” it combines mobile social networking with voice messaging to create a “Voice-Blog” service. Continue reading
It’s all getting a bit Star Trek – Google is working on voice-to-voice translation
Just the other night, as a friend of mine watched YouTube videos over his Wii on his plasma-screen TV, he turned to me and said “sometimes I feel like I’m living in the future.” And I know what he means. Reports have surfaced that Google is working on voice-to-voice translation software, that would take what you say in your language and translate it into another. Continue reading
