Cheapest SMS text service
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008CardBoardFish (www.cardboardfish.com), the low-cost SMS specialist, has developed a mobile application that dramatically reduces the cost of national and international texts from your phone: FishText. This bypasses the operator’s network and thus dramatically reduces SMS fees. FishText is free when texting other subscribers and costs from 1p for all other texts globally (over 200 countries).
Voicemail to TXT
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Nuance Communications announced Nuance Voicemail to Text, a voicemail transcription service that delivers readable messages to mobile devices. Offered through carriers, the service uses Nuance’s speech recognition and transcription workflow solutions to convert voicemails left on any voicemail box into text. Transcribed messages are sent to users as SMS or email messages.
Google: technology to recognize text in pictures and videos
Sunday, January 6th, 2008Google wants to expand its search engine beyond static text, Computerworld says. The search giant filed a patent application for technology that can recognize text in images. It could be used to retrieve text from video or from photos.
