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Voice chat for gamers? Can Verizon tap into this at all?

Groupon is teaming up with lions gate entertainment to offer half price movie tickets for the first time 

Voting with your wallet

This guy suggests they focus on Google Voice like services, assigned phone numbers, Voice mail, mobile video chat, stuff like that.

Mentos is launching a new gum called UP2U, which includes two flavors in the same pack - The Martin Agency put up a couple of billboards in Chicago (the site of the annual Sweets and Snacks Expo) urging people to call (800) 304-UCHOOSE. an automated voice asking you to choose from a spoken menu of options-but the questions get odder and odder. "What is your favorite color?" then leads to "Where do you think grandpa is hiding?" and then to "What would be a good name for a Mongoose farm?" And on and on from there. Eventually the voice says: "Thank you, friend, for your choices and the hard work you put into choosing all of them. After analyzing your responses, it appears that Mentos UP2U gum is the perfect gum for you. Please buy some and visit us at facebook.com/up2u."

This ties in to Emily's post on virtual assistants. iPhone integrating Siri deeply into the OS as an "assistant" service bundled in the OS.

Voice messaging app for Facebook. BabbleOn lets people record audio and then easily send it to Facebook via mobile. 

Upon announcement of Google's voice search an NY agency created "The Verbalizer", a robot-like setup to let people search on a public screen.

taking a step further with Xbox and Kinect with voice and gesture controls.  pretty cool way to start sharing ads/information on social media platforms.

Interactive ads in this context allow the viewer to choose various options within the actual banner. Perhaps they can select merchandise for a closer review, click between different color options, or choose advanced options such as voice narration. If viewing a sales ad for a clothing retailer, the customer could sort by "men's" or "women's" apparel, then by "tops" or "pants".

film studio Lionsgate and Tribeca Enterprises, the media company behind the Tribeca Film Festival, announced today they are teaming up on a new, subscription-based video-streaming platform. The service will be known as Tribeca Short List and is slated to launch sometime during the first half of 2015. You can expect a "prestigious selection" of movie content from Lionsgate, which will be curated by Tribeca with help from "leading voices in contemporary culture.

"While still young in robot years (and actual years; she turns 2 years old on Feb. 14), Sophia's natural language processing capabilities, a key function of AI across many voice AI platforms like Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant, in some ways seem impressive. That's because she doesn't simply answer what she's asked. However, she also sometimes doesn't answer at all. Hanson Robotics requested some prep questions to train her in some topics ahead of time (something I'd never give a human before an interview), and Sophia could answer very few of them. Here's a transcript of our conversation. And the ones she did answer were nothing more than one-liners."